all-encompassingly

keeping with our “idiot” theme….
my radio was tuned to 104.3 (“K-BIG 104”) in LA a week ago, where, commenting on katie couric’s tough interview* on the harvard sophomore, a writing expert said she was disappointed with our tendency in america to “gang up” on people when they’re down.
i had to laugh. plagiarism [...]

I read any bit of news that comes out of this case. Why is it so fascinating to me? I’m not sure. Perhaps because I hope to practice criminal law someday. Or perhaps because this is a real-life whodunit. The truth still isn’t out. Or, at least, definitive proof [...]

pray for his family.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you Bill O’Reilly’s “Most Ridiculous Item of the Day” before it is even on The Factor tonight.
Check out what passes for reasoned dialogue over on The Huffington Post (this is not from some random moonbat in the comment section, it is from regular contributer Cenk Uygur):
If You’re [...]

As reported on Drudge and all around the web, we bring you Lamb and Lynx Gaede.
They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much [...]

SEVEN-TIMES Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, provoked by recent doping allegations, is considering coming out of retirement in a bid to win an eighth consecutive edition of cycling’s greatest race.
Armstrong, a father of three who on Monday announced his engagement to rock star Sheryl Crow, confirmed today in a statement released through his agent [...]

via the corner

Don Irvine at Accuracy In Media talks about media bias, the 60th anniversary, and his mother (a survivor of Nagasaki).
The media has searched far and wide for survivors who thought the U.S. could have found another way to end the war. I wish they had tried to contact my mother and ask her thoughts. She [...]

BBC edits out the word terrorist

you’ll have to excuse my sarcasm, but when is this a good (or even marginally called-for) reaction to the terrorist bombings in great britain? how about at least calling for indictments or offering therapy for our attackers? ahh…anyway, the choice quotes follow, along with my sarcastic responses:

what success are we having in the [...]

This post has been updated quite a bit, thanks to additional information provided by David Bateman. Although I doubt that he, or DealElder.com, would endorse my conclusions. Read the whole thing.
Near the top of my list of yucky dishonest (after trading emails with David I don’t think that DearElder is “dishonest”, although I [...]

a poll.

when president bush gave his inaugural address in january, and focused on the spread of freedom and liberty around the world, critics called his ideas lofty, unrealistic, and abstract. i was inclined to agree with them. but don’t we all look like idiots now?
since being sworn-in for his second term, i [...]

When I was a senior in high school Leon Busche introduced our AP Government class to James Q. Wilson.
With the recent controversy surrounding the right-to-die/kill debate re: Terri Schiavo, Wilson has written a compelling piece for the Wall Street Journal in which he argues for Mrs. Schiavo’s life.
A key excerpt:

read about it here: This Liberal: Che Guevara at BYU