A brand-new global news organization? I thought that the days of big news were numbered. Big newspapers like the Fish Wrapper (aka the Chicago Tribune West), the WaPo, the Miami Herald, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and even the UK’s Guardian and… Continue Reading
Internet reporting, like TV news reporting, is all about attracting eyeballs. So Pajamas Media decided to try a stunt to do that — it hired purportedly average-guy Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, AKA “Joe the Plumber,” to be a war correspondent. They… Continue Reading
It’s my considered opinion that people remember things that generate intense emotions; things that generate only mild emotions tend to slip away into the fog of one’s generalized recollection of the past. Examples: I can remember, with great clarity, how… Continue Reading
What with all the governmental intervention in big finance, big auto manufacturing, big insurance, and big real estate, there are no doubt a lot of important industries that have been left behind. No one is offering to bail out big… Continue Reading
All of our Presidents do not get together at one place or one time very often. The last time was for Gerald Ford’s funeral. They did it again today — an Oval Office meeting with President-Elect Obama, both Presidents Bush,… Continue Reading
This appears to be real, not a joke. Dr. Gupta from CNN’s “House Calls” is apparently President-Elect Obama’s choice to be the Surgeon General of the United States. My immediate reaction was disappointment. “What, just because he’s a pretty face… Continue Reading
One of the things that I admire the most about people is when they realize that they were wrong and admit it. Bob Barr is doing that now. No flaming liberal, no culture warrior he. Bob Barr was a Republican… Continue Reading
John Yoo and John Bolton, two former second-tier Bush Administration officials, who used their time in office to advocate all kinds of unilateral authority for President Bush in the realm of foreign policy. Yoo was the principal author and researcher… Continue Reading
Archaeologists have found the remains of a major set-piece battle from the second century between a tribe of Germans and a Roman legion. This is really interesting because it has been widely assumed that the Romans stopped major combat operations… Continue Reading
An archeaologist from my alma mater, working with his father, a paleooceanographer from the University of Oregon, have located a fairly consistent layer of nanodiamonds in soil samples from around North America. From this, they conclude that 12,900 years ago,… Continue Reading