The Stopped Clock

For those with more money than time, Jeremy Seabrook has some thoughts on subcontracting your daily burdens. Comments

In " Why I’m a Democrat and Why I Wish the Democrats Were Democrats, Too ", Paul Jacob, a "senior fellow" at U.S. Term L...

Lou Dobbs asks Are you better off today than you were three years ago? : Even for a non-scientific poll, that's quite the result. I wond...

Rumors & Megalomania It is rumored that Saddam Hussein may have terminal cancer : The ousted Iraqi dictator, who is currently under c...

A number of years ago, exploiting connections he had obtained while with the FBI, Gary Aldrich wrote a book excoriating the Clintons. Now, i...

In Canada's cash , Tony Blankley, former press secretary to Newt Gingrich, acknowledges that foreign nationals are prohibited by law fro...

Today, William Safire writes, With the year 2004 still in its diaper, a spacecraft aptly named Stardust, launched five years ago, scooped u...

Today, David Brooks suggests that the public perception of the "neo-cons" is incorrect, and seems to suggest that criticism of ne...

In " Censorship across the divide: 'Epithet' that! ", Diana West displays what I call "Reader's Digest reasoning...

Some love 'em, some hate 'em - but we all ge 'em. The photocopied synopsis of "my family's life, this past year". ...

As Deputy Attorney General James Comey is appointed to serve as a special prosecutor in the Plame case and investigators ask White House sta...

Continuing on yesterday's observation about the different treatment given by the media to the Tate and Abraham cases as compared to the ...

In 2001, Lionel Tate was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing a si...

The poorly reasoned editorial of the day is unquestionably " Some things I wonder about " by Walter E. Williams. First he express...

Some stories from England to let you know that although your New Years activities may not be the best or funniest in history, they also pro...

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The other day, a long-time friend of mine and self-described classic conservative, told me, "I had to admit this, but I've been th...

A couple of years ago I read Shame by Salman Rushdie - a tale set in a "fictional" nation which obviously represented Pakistan. I...

A few weeks ago a very nice AP reporter called me to ask some questions about an Ohio case, where a woman who had murdered her newborn child...

As the year draws to a close, it appears that the most frivolous lawsuit of the year award goes (unsurprisingly) to Fox News and Bill O'...