In a weird turn of events, House Speaker Pelosi has been forced to put a stop to global warming legislation being worked on by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Apparently, Representatives […]
Speaker Pelosi blocks bad global warming legislation written by fellow Democrats
Fred Thompson fan club grows like a rampant tumor
A few days ago I mentioned how Bob Novak was hyping Fred Thompson as the hottest candidate in the race for the GOP nomination, and with just cause: Karl Rove has been […]
WAN 2007, Day 2: The Cartoonist, the Darkest Continent, and The Zuma – a man who would be king
“Why are you suing a cartoonist and what do you hope to achieve?” asked George Brock, president of the World Editor’s Forum, of Jacob Zuma, ex-Deputy President of South Africa and currently […]
Obscenity, The FCC, and Kevin Martin’s Future
By Martin Bosworth Over at Private Intelligence, I discuss how the courts’ recent ruling against the “fleeting obscenity” rules of the FCC is another nail in the coffin of Kevin Martin’s career. […]
Bill to cut federal gas tax? Bad idea, bad public policy
My U.S. congressman reintroduced a bill last week that would cut the federal gasoline excise tax by 10 cents a gallon each time the retail price of unleaded regular hits $3. That […]
Bobby
“We’ve had difficult times in the past. We will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; it is not […]
The Supreme Court wants more hanging juries
By Robert Silvey The five reactionary members of the Bush/Roberts Supreme Court are showing themselves, case by case, to have a radical view of the law and of their place in American […]
The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
Timothy Balding, CEO of the World Association of Newspapers, is no softy. Neither are any of the other 1 600 journalists and news editors from around the world gathered in Cape Town […]
Cheney talks to Wyoming boys’ state convention about citizenship – and lies, of course…
President of Vice – uh, Vice-President Dick Cheney spoke to the Wyoming convention of Boys State, that venerable civic organization, Sunday. As usual, he lied: Active citizenship is a duty, it’s not […]
Journalists: Cover my town. I'll pay you $191 a year.
For the past several years, I’ve spent $47.75 every three months for a subscription to the local newspaper that claims it covers my community of about 2,300 people. Other than my town’s […]
