DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremists Makes Stars & Stripes

There’s a front-page report on the DHS report highlighting the dangers of “right-wing extremists” in today’s Stars & Stripes,  yet strangely I can find nothing about it on their web site.  I wonder if that was an editorial decision to bury the story?  You can’t unprint newspapers, but you can easily delete a link. There was [...]

From the “World’s Most Poorly Crafted Headlines” Dept.

On ’60 Minutes,’ Obama rebukes Cheney criticism To me, this title is misleading.  It suggests at first glance that Obama was actually sticking up for Cheney, defending him from his critics.  He’s rebuking the criticisms OF Cheney. However, read the story, and you find that what he’s really doing is rebuking Cheney‘s criticism.  Don’t they send [...]

In which I make certain pithy and delightfully droll observations…

…somewhat akin to a certain Jeff G., which, because of the NUANCE! I continue to find it amazingly amazing that the political party of which continually bills itself as the party of The People! (which, if you were wondering, is the Democrats) has taken such a ready and almost, dare I say, “pitbull”-like (minus the [...]

Update your Thesaurus.

As seen/discovered in the comments for this post over at Michelle Malkin, I heartily jump on the bandwagon.  From now on, the Strunk & Whites’ official textual accuracy for liberals is now: LIEberals.  Please update your spellcheck.  Thank you. That is all. UPDATE: I have to wonder what Al Franken, the seasoned, responsible journalist that [...]

Prior Restraint and Freedom of Religion

Update:  Yeah, kind of like that.  In journalistic and legal circles there is a concept called “prior restraint,” which essential boils down to an officially-sanctioned restriction on the publication or airing of material which might offend, be prejudicial to a trial process, or in some other way prove harmful to some party.  The potential harm [...]

On a related note…

I find it interesting that not once in this AP article: Austrian Man Shoots Colleague, Slices off Penis in ‘Honor Killing’ …are the words “Islamic” or “Muslim” mentioned.  Instead, honor killings are said to be: an ancient tradition associated with Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq and Iran as well as tribal areas in Pakistan and some [...]

God Bless those Atheists

Military probes atheist GI’s harassment claims   Perhaps you’ve heard of this guy, a one Spc. Jeremy Hall who has up and decided to sue his commanding officer and, yes, the Secretary of Defense.  That’s right.  E-4 Specialist Hall is suing the Secretary of Defense.  Although, to be honest, I’m not sure how an Atheist files a [...]

Hatfields and McCoys, at it agi’n…

Militants throw rivals off high-rise Gaza buildings Now, I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I get this vague sort of sense that these people are, what’s the word….COMPLETE $#@&^%! ANIMALS! Again, not being possessed of an incredible amount of mental acuity, I must profess some confusion at CNN’s continued choice of [...]

Feed the meme, baby. Feed the meme.

Zoo celebrates virgin birth of Komodo dragons “The evolutionary breakthrough could have far-reaching consequences for endangered species.” Not sure how this is an “evolutionary” breakthrough.  Was the offspring a new variation on the species?  Able to breath methane or something?  Has wings? Parthenogenesis — where eggs become embryos without male fertilization — had only been [...]

Now, call me cynical…

…and maybe I’m a little too quick to jump onto the “bash-the-mainstream-media” bandwagon, but I find it interesting that in the MSNBC online article: Contractors shot execution style, officials say that the one of the accompanying graphics, though for an “unrelated” incident, turns out to be this one: A photo of four iraqi men, on [...]