Read Mary Laney’s excellent “How Kerry whistleblower suffered for truth” in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. The story relates the plight of Steve Gardner, the one crew member from John Kerry’s Swift Boat crew who had the courage to speak out about his Vietnam record. This man should be getting awards for his courageous service […]

CBS has announced that Dan Rather will resign in March. I’ll comment further after lunch… on second thought, maybe I won’t.

When you have a quiet moment, read Peggy Noonan’s wonderful column.

The Boston Globe is reporting that US planes dropped two 2,000-pound bombs on a bunker complex in Fallujah early yesterday morning. The complex was a top-tier terrorist training facility, and also was believed to house massive weapon stockpiles. After-action intel is still coming in, but the fact that earthshaking secondary explosions continued underground […]

The Sunday Times, the New York Daily News and the Washington Times are among many MSM outlets reporting Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview with ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer. For those who missed the interview, or have blocked CBS from their Tivo, Scheuer was the quisling whose seditious book was published earlier this year with the […]

Broadcasting & Cable reports that CBS has fired a senior news producer who pre-empted Thursday’s prime-time programming for a special report announcing the death of Yasser Arafat. Well, that was quick.
But what about Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes? CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius says that the panel of independent investigators “is still […]

Yasser Arafat, “the father of modern terrorism,” was buried today at a repurposed parking lot in Ramallah, with masked members of Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades firing rifles into the air to celebrate the burial of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning mass murderer.

Check out this online forum on whether it would be ethical to kill all Republicans. It’s hard to believe how much violence against Americans can be contained in a single discussion thread, and it isn’t even on Al Jazeera — it’s on Bill Maher’s website.
Does Bill encourage this kind of animosity? Read the […]

Today was Veterans Day, and the fiftieth anniversary of the first Veterans Day in 1954. Since 1919, November 11th had been marked in the United States (as it still is in Canada, France and the U.K.) as Armistice Day to commemorate the signing in 1918 of the settlement that ended “the war to end […]

No one who has seen the film Full Metal Jacket will ever forget the character of Pvt Leonard Lawrence (a.k.a. Pvt Pyle) and the bone-jarring scene in which those words were uttered. Vincent D’Onofrio brought that disturbing character and many others to life with his haunting, unsettling screen presence.
Well, apparently it was all just […]

Well, it’s official: World-famous terrorist, murderer and euro-celebrity Yasser Arafat is dead. Where is he now, do you think?

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported in today’s morning edition about a politically-motivated assault on a student at a local environmental science magnet school. Several students in the school’s computer room were talking about the presidential candidates they had supported. Some jeered that “only gay people vote for Bush,” and one pro-Bush student […]

The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, a joint project of the Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), has issued a press release claiming that temperatures in the Arctic are rising “at nearly twice the rate as the rest of the globe” and will cause an increase in sea levels of about three feet […]

World Net Daily’s commentator David Limbaugh has suggested that Kerry supporters may very well need some serious therapy. Well, it appears that at least some of them agree; The Boca Raton News reports that some liberal voters are claiming they were “traumatized” by the election results and have sought treatment. I wonder how […]

Jim Bell, the anarchist who developed the theory of assassination politics, would be amazed that his ideas are now mainstream–at least to the degree of being wishful thinking on the part of Dean E. Murphy of the New York Times. His Sunday column, “Bolts from the Political Blue: Can History Save the Democrats?” […]

In the latest spate of idiotic manufactured news, everyone is reporting the incredible interest among liberals in emigrating to Canada. Most of the stories are based on some degree on the fact that the Canadian government’s immigration website, which averages about 20,000 visitors a day, recorded 115,016 U.S. visitors on Wednesday and 65,803 on […]

Voting this year was too intense to be confined to one day, and it appears that the same was true of election-day anarchy:

WCCO in Minneapolis is one of many outlets reporting on teen criminals vandalizing Bush signs, enhanced in this case with spray-painted swastikas. Two teens’ felony charges were reduced to a misdemeanor as […]

If there’s one thing I adore, it’s well-written vitriol. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jane Smiley added her two-cent entry to Slate’s post-election “Why Americans Hate Democrats” series. Her essay, aptly titled “The Unteachable Ignorance of the Red States,” is educational reading for anyone who still believes that compassion and tolerance are hallmarks of the […]

Late this evening I passed through an intersection where a car on the cross street was waiting to cross right to left. I glanced at the car as I was entering the intersection and nearly took evasive action when I thought the car was quickly moving forward. It wasn’t; apparently the driver had […]

Now that the election is over and George W. Bush’s contract has been extended to January ‘09, I’m retiring my Election Coverage section, including links to coverage from Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, USA Today and Yahoo.
I’ll probably write more about non-political issues, but not yet. I’m dumbfounded that Hillary Rodham Clinton […]