The Stopped Clock

According to the Financial Times, CBS has been " forced " to cancel its plans to air a miniseries on the Reagans, by a "wave ...

It is interesting to read one day about Tyco shareholders picking up more than half of the tab for an absurd, $2 million birthday party for...

An interesting applet . Comments

Today, Bill Safire essentially tells us that if we don't support the Bush Administration's version of occupation, we face dire cons...

Johann Hari of London's Independent has some advice for would-be columnists , which I think is worthy of reading for all people who are...

So we supposedly had 7.2% growth last quarter, for which the Bush Administration is attempting to take credit . Skeptical me - first, even ...

Today, Cynthia Tucker proclaims, " Black Students Must Stop Deriding Scholarship as White ", and suggests that home environment ma...

On NPR yesterday, I heard an admirer of Donald Rumsfeld describe how Rumsfeld is never manipulative. So, obviously, the following was not a...

It must be a peace without victory.... Victory would mean peace forced upon the losers, a victor’s terms imposed upon the vanquished. It wou...

A friend asks, "one has to wonder, are they even looking for the correct language specialty?" Most military linguists working in I...

A couple of stories to highlight the law of unintended consequences, and its effect on our nation's children. In Cash Incentives for Ado...

Today, in an editorial suggesting that we do ourselves a disservice by not trying to understand the root causes of terrorism, A Willful Igno...

In today's New York Times, A Better Roadmap , Jackson Diehl suggests that a Middle East road map to peace should include a destination. ...

On Friday, USA Today published an editorial by Dick Armey, who is now "chairman of Citizens for a Sound Economy , a group dedicated to ...

Looking for an unbiased source on the Israel-Palestine conflict? Good luck. Most sources that claim to be unbiased are hopelessly biased. Mo...

An editorial in today's London Guardian, The planet's polluters should be put in the dock , laments pressure on the world's envi...

If you have been following the news lately, it is hard to miss the consternation arising from Iran's nuclear program - what most reasona...

Although this may not technically qualify as a necessity of life, it probably should. Comments

This isn't a judgment - it is just an observation. A friend of mine recently pointed out to me that "Ann Coulter is Ed Anger"...

I have to admit that I have more than a bit of skepticism about "blogging". From what I have read, while it is popular for people ...