The Media

Mona Charen points out that the latest “breakthrough” in stem cell research isn’t actually what is being reported. What I heard on the local radio yesterday is that scientists had discovered a way to remove a single cell from a developing embryo without causing any damage to the embryo. Quoting Robby George:

First, the […]

Via Hot Air, once again it’s my favorite Canadian-born, gun-toting, half-Jewish, half-Catholic, confirmed Anglican, practicing Baptist journalist living in New Hampshire.

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A collection of videos this morning:

What happens when a taxi driver gets mistaken for a computer expert and is hustled on camera for an interview about the lawsuit between the Beatles and Apple computer? Watch this (Windows Media).

What would happen if the Republicans actually nominated a candidate for President who could handle tough questions from […]

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The Ninth Ciruit, the court responsible for criminalizing would-be-pledgers-of-allegiance in elementary schools across the Western United States, recently held that school systems may lawfully engage in viewpoint discrimination (PDF).

I waited to post this, because I was hoping to come across a newpaper article (for linking purposes) that clearly stated the facts in a complete […]

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In an effort to be politically correct by avoiding the word “terrorist,” the Transportation Security Administration accidentally sent a warning shot screaming across the bow of Occasional Outbursts:

Extremists may target private US planes: TSA

(And I thought there was only one… Perhaps it is part of the plot…)

Bill Hobbs, Tennessee blogger and Lipscomb University graduate, resigned from his job at Belmont University (more links at Mainstreet Journal and Michelle Malkin). His resignation followed a hit piece by a “professional” journalist — whose anti-blogger agenda is apparent in the first sentence: “If, as the saying goes, all politics is local, then what […]

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Not that it matters to the loonies of the world that refuse to let facts shape their emotions, “but recently declassified documents explicitly show that the Iraqi military had ordered a call for volunteers to carry out suicide attacks on American interests, six months before 9/11 and two years almost to the day prior […]

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According to the Washington Post, Meredith Vieira is 49 years old. I’m not picking on the WaPo, because several other papers are also reporting Vieira as 49.

The problem? She’s 52.

The Hartford Courant reported that fact, probably before the talking points including the “49″ story hit the media.

According to a 1989 USA […]

According to this article, Mary Winkler sent a message to her local congregation from jail, where she is under arrest for the murder of her preacher-husband, Matthew Winkler:

Pam Killingsworth, a member of the Fourth Street Church of Christ, visited Winkler yesterday for about a half hour. * * * […]

Surely, you’ve heard someone say, “Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good argument.” Regardless of who said it to you before, Thomas Sowell’s latest column probably says it better, and he lays out the consequences rather well:

People who have made up their minds and don’t want to be confused by […]