I have no idea why 10 Americans, in Haiti on a humanitarian mission, thought it would be a good idea to take 33 Haitian kids to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. No one that I have seen has suggested that they were paid or had any insidious motive. My guess is that [...]

You want to know what bad journalism looks like? Read the article “Free Speech Rights Prevented Probe into Hasan Emails, Investigators Say“, currently the headline article on Foxnews.com. A few days ago I lambasted Fox & Friends for jumping to a quick conclusion that political correctness concerns prevented the military from taking preemptive [...]

We don’t yet know what happened yesterday at Ft. Hood. We don’t know why a psychiatrist started shooting people. We aren’t even sure that he was the only gunman involved. We don’t know what, if any, warning signs there might have been.
Oh, there is certainly speculation. There are reports that the [...]

I’m sick of people justifying rude, insensitive, anti-democratic, behavior behind the phrase “grassroots movement”. Just because a movement is supported by quite a few people, doesn’t make the movement any more beneficial or legitimate than a movement that is only supported by a few. In fact, many of the worst tragedies we’ve seen [...]

John McCain believes that the government response to Hurricane Katrina was “disgraceful”. In a speech yesterday he faulted FEMA’s organization, it’s leadership, and President Bush’s response in particular. It was the kind of speech you would expect of someone who was severely disappointed in how the leadership of his own party responded to [...]

The House Foreign Affairs Committee will vote this afternoon on a resolution to declare that the deaths of over one million Armenians in Turkey shortly after World War I constitutes genocide. The Bush Administration has asked them to reject the proposal.
For once, President Bush is right.
By no means am I defending Turkey. While [...]

That’s my hometown.  The quaint local news station that whose feed CNN taps into–that’s the station my mom watches.  I’ve walked along the wreckage strewn paths.  I’ve driven over the heap of concrete and twisted steel.  I know how absurd it is for the news anchor to ask questions about pollution in the Mississippi.  (In [...]

There was a potential watershed moment yesterday in the War in Iraq: insurgents set off a series of car bombs outside of the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistak (PUK) in Kirkuk, killing eighty. This is perhaps the worst news I’ve heard come out of Iraq in months, because it could easily mark [...]

Beverly Sills, noted opera singer who’s name is practically synonymous with the New York metropolitan opera, passed away today. But I don’t know her from her work in New York, I know her from her work with the muppets. In a classic episode, the elite singer poked fun at herself, and opera in [...]

Here’s what I don’t understand. The press keeps talking about a looming humanitarian crisis in the Gaza strip if Israel doesn’t allow food in, or Palestinians out.
But Gaza isn’t landlocked. It’s long and thin, and has a nice stretch of border along the Mediterranean Sea. Why can’t aid workers bring food and [...]