Polygamists normally live on the fringe and try to avoid any attention being called to them. Now, though, they’re coming out of the woodwork, banding together, and attempting to legalize their practice. As was predicted, they’re largely piggy-backing their effort on the drive to legalize gay marriage. While gay marriage is a separate issue and [...]
Providing a paradigm example of irony, many furious Muslims around the world have taken to the streets committing acts of violence in protest of cartoons that implied Muslims were violent. There’s nothing quite like playing to type. Thus far, mobs have torched a few embassies, some neighborhoods have been roughed up, a few protesters have [...]
There’s all sorts of uproar among many Muslims about the cartoons of Mohammed that were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten last September. It’s supposedly against the Koran or a surah or some such to produce visual representations of the prophet. So for the paper to do was, again, supposedly a great affront and insult [...]
Oprah finally did what she should have done two weeks ago on Larry King: she berated James Frey for his lying memoir. She said all the right things – that she was duped, that he had betrayed millions of readers, and she challenged him on numerous points. For his part, Frey kept clinging to the [...]
If Cindy Sheehan hasn’t already jumped the shark, she certainly did with her little jaunt to Venezuela. She’s in Caracas this week for the World Social Forum, which is an anti-globalist and anti-American group. She’s there talking about how she doesn’t like Bush, how the troops should come home, the U.S. shouldn’t be meddling in [...]
After the last post, I started thinking about Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. First, notice I refuse to use the honorific ‘reverend,’ since there as much ministers of God as I am a bicycle. I still remember back in 2001 when Jackson admitted he had a child out of wedlock by a woman with whom [...]
Ray Nagin has caught some heat for saying at an MLK rally yesterday that New Orleans will be rebuilt as a “chocolate†city… ’cause God wants it that way. He also channeled Pat Robertson in saying that God was punishing New Orleans for America’s sins, specifically for “being in Iraq under false pretenses,” and also [...]
I’ve complained several times about the AP’s reporting on captial punishment cases, mainly that they’re long on the plight of the condemned and almost wholly omit discussion of the crimes they committed and the people they killed. Well, I need to give credit where it’s due as this article is nearly the exact opposite. It [...]
Professor Bainbridge has an account of eminent domain abuse in L.A. that is head-shakingly, mouth agape unbelievable. It combines official corruption, abuse of power, baiting-and-switching, rejection of voter will, and cronyism all in one case. It’s simply amazing. Make sure to read it. Update: My thanks to the Professor for linking to me. To visitors, [...]
Look out, China is preparing to enter the American auto market. Two Chinese automakers, Geely and Chery, are making plans to introduce cars here in the next several years. Geely even had a booth at this year’s Detroit Auto Show where they showed off one of their latest models. The main thing holding them back [...]
I complained here that when producing articles about death penalty cases, the AP is remarkably biased. Its stories focus almost exclusively on the plight of the person to be executed and almost completely ignore what the person did that got them on death row to begin with. Well, they’re doing it again. Clarence Ray Allen [...]
In a Dartmouth speech Thursday, Al Sharpton complained about Bush: “The irony for me is that George Bush, after spending the week lobbying for Alito, justifying wiretaps and explaining for the thousandth time why he did not respond to Katrina, will stand somewhere on Monday and piously act as though he remembers Dr. King, when [...]
From HuffPo’s Jesse Kornbluth: Would you like to know that the news program you’re watching — whatever the politics of the network’s owner — presents verifiable facts from respectable sources? Would you like to watch commentary on the news by experts whose opinions don’t come from the daily talking points of either political party? Me [...]
In late October of last year, Oprah featured James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces as the latest entry to her book club. The book is supposed to be a memoir of Frey’s life of booze, drugs, violence, hate, and general malcontentedness… and how he overcame it all. Naturally, it shot to the top of [...]
Wizbang points to this Townhall column by Kathleen Parker. In it, she condemns most bloggers as being immature kids: These effete and often clever baby “bloggies” are rich in time and toys, but bereft of adult supervision. Spoiled and undisciplined, they have grabbed the mike and seized the stage, a privilege granted not by years [...]