Author: Dennis

You all may want to take out your copies of the Reuters’s Manual of Style Over Substance and mark this in the margin at ? 4.1.3 terrorists, ‘insurgents,’ or ‘rebels’? It appears that now ‘execution’ is to be softened or, in post-modernist fashion, treated ironically by inverted commas (note my adherence in this very sentence?I…

The Boston Red Sox have done something no other team has done: they’ve come back from a three game deficit to tie the series and force a game seven. I guess you all finally downloaded the Mahow Mahow video. Now, there may be some concern over the interference call against Alex Rodriguez in the 8th…

Remember: a vote for Kerry is a vote for expansive federal government. I’ll never understand those who wave the anarchist banner for socialism. UPDATE: The elusive M. over at the Dave links to GOPunk.com, and a section of their FAQ is applicable here: Hey, you can’t be republican punks – punks are anti-establishment, and republicans…

I just saw Kerry’s latest ad (complete with obligatory “I’m John Kerry and I approved this ad” message). In it a collage of newspaper clippings appears on screen with a voice-over straight out of an ad for the latest Hollywood thriller (you know the type: ‘In a world where darkness reigns, one man stands alone…

… but how could Dan Rather open his broadcast tonight with a headline of ‘MUTINY’ plastered across an American flag, offering as his lead story an unsubstantiated report that American troops may have refused orders deemed too dangerous? Rather emphasized that nothing had been proven, and that so far this was merely a rumor. So…

If only there were more of this in the MSM: Some Iraqis elsewhere in the country say an offensive is the best thing that could happen to Falluja, a town which has become synonymous with Iraq’s insurgency over the past 18 months. “Allawi must attack Falluja in whatever way necessary because they are the main…

Drudge exposes an effort by Democrats to manufacture a climate of fear and distrust at the polls by targeting minority voters and using ‘minority leadership’ to manipulate voters: It strikes me that this is voter intimidation. It clearly shows intent to agitate fear and distrust among minority voters based not on what is actually happening…

Looking around I see some hardnosed bloggers complaining about nothing new here, but trust me. Remember, I was none too impressed with the second debate which many people thought Bush won handily. This was a dominant performance which will resonate with voters. Democrats tend to assume that domestic issues are their strength, and many seem…

It’s baseball time folks, so here’s luck to the Red Sox, who really don’t need it because they’re the better team! But just in case (no, not you Justin), I’ve decided you might aid Pedro Martinez’s cause by watching Nelson de la Rosa, Pedro’s personal good luck charm, do a little dance called Mahow Mahow.…

Blogging up a storm? Well batten down the hatches, ’cause it ain’t over yet. Dave Kopel of FahrenHYPE 9-11 fame (which also features former NYC mayor Ed Koch and former Clinton advisor Dick Morris) has a report on the reporting of false reports: the draft hoax: Both papers, and CBS, would have done better to…

Those who saw Kerry that morning recall mainly that he was furious, an emotion, those close to him say, that comes easily to him in times of trial. He thought it was a mistake to shut down the Capitol, to show terrorists that they had the power to send the United States government into hiding.…

I’ve been told about a mailing to registered Democrats from James Carville requesting donations to aid in the recount in the upcoming Presidential election. You read that correctly. The Democrats are fund-raising to finance recounts for an election that hasn’t happened yet. This is not apocryphal. My mother had one of these letters in her…

I recently talked about how to read the news. Now I’d like to talk about what’s clearly not the news. David E. Sanger is the White House Correspondent for the New York Times. I hadn’t realized that correspondents wrote op-ed pieces, nor had I realized that op-ed pieces were now called ‘news analyses.’ That’s exactly…

The votes are being counted now in Afghanistan, and some, smelling defeat, have taken a page out of the Al Gore book: What was supposed to be a historic day in the war-ravaged nation turned sour Saturday when all 15 challengers to interim President Hamid Karzai withdrew in the middle of voting, accusing the government…

My working class father?who enlisted to fight in Vietnam and never nominated himself for anything?was just in Las Vegas spending the money he’s not supposed to have in this supposedly horrendous economy. He was at a table wearing his ‘Veterans For Bush’ shirt when he was confronted by an angry leftist charging ‘THAT SHIRT IS…

The Oil for Food scandal and all its implications should be the headline coming out of the Duelfer report. Instead it’s that Iraq didn’t have WMDs at the time of invasion. So here’s a roundup of things worth reading on the subject: David Brooks @ the NYTimes: The Report That Nails Saddam. Jim Bencivenga @…

I guess it’s time for the big debate round-up … But you won’t find it here (try Instapundit, where Glenn Reynolds blogged along through the night). Quickly, Bush’s brightest moment was something like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. He mentioned the Oil for Food scandal very briefly–in connection with Saddam Hussein’s efforts to…

You heard it … John Edwards said that Kerry is the one candidate who puts people behind crime. MORE: Did you catch Edwards pretending to be confused when Gwen Ifill mistakenly gave him 30 seconds to respond though he’d already had his time? He tried to get away with it for a bit, then flashed…

A convoy (for want of a better term) of ten military helicopters just passed low overhead. It’s times like these when I begin to think seriously again about terror threats and realize if only minutely what our friends elsewhere in the globe are experiencing everyday. I hope all I ever experience is a transport or…

Michael Moore is quoted at RatherBiased as saying that he had been offered the faked CBS memos during the production of Fahrenheit 9-11: “Back when I was making Fahrenheit, I was offered the same documents that were given to CBS but I didn’t use them because we couldn’t verify them,” Moore said following a speech…