June 28, 2015

Time to Rename the Fulbright Scholarships?

The victims' families themselves have exhibited amazing Christian grace by forgiving the Charleston Church mass-murdered, Dylann Roof.  Nonetheless, Social Justsice Warriors continue to wave the bloody-shirt to foment an enraged reaction tow...

June 25, 2015

The corollary of 'You didn't build that'

"You didn't build that" is the charge lodged against private sector businessmen by President Obama on the campaign trail in 2012. To President Obama, the era of the self-made American is over (unless one obsessively writes autobiogra...

June 18, 2015

Report: China was given OPM network keys

In addition to his role as PJ Media columnist, Richard Fernandez is an expert in networked computer information systems.  His latest essay reports the news that the Chinese were given the passwords to rummage around for many months througho...

February 6, 2015

Brian Williams owes Bob Woodruff an apology

Brian Williams owes my high school classmate Bob Woodruff an apology among many for stolen valor.  A fellow news anchor, Bob truly did risk life and limb to get the story.  He sustained life-threatening head injuries while on assignment wit...

April 2, 2012

You furnish the sound bite, I'll furnish the (race) war

The most infamous instance of "Yellow Journalism" occurred when newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst allegedly said to his field-correspondent, the artist Fredrick Remington, the following: "You furnish the pictures.  I'll furnish the w...

August 20, 2007

Members of an unidentified political party bear responsibility

NPR's Morning Edition today included a lengthy report on the problems with New Orleans' main prison, ascribing them to Hurricane Katrina.  Later in the report however, we learn that the ACLU has had a lawsuit pending on behalf of inmates against...

June 25, 2007

Liberal paradox

Like one of those sci-fi robots repeating "this does not compute", liberals are having a hard time concocting reasons to condemn Wal-Mart's plans to offer low cost check-cashing services and pre-paid credit cards to their low income custome...

March 4, 2007

Coulter vesus Maher

In the uproar over Ann Coulter's tasteless "joke" at the CPAC Conference, Bill Maher's much more egregious call for Dick Cheney's assassination and the applause of his audience have been ignored, as Newsbusters showed.  As for Maher, I...

March 2, 2007

Green commisars (updated)

The news of Al Gore's hypocrisy in paying his own company for "carbon credits" to offset his enormous personal "carbon footprint" may be startling, but upon reflection should not be a surprise.  In the spotlight twice with hi...

February 5, 2007

Media don't know how to report Ethiopia's triumph

Col. Thomas Snodgrass's insightful essay concerning the needlessly protract conflicts in Vietnam and Iraq reminded me that news of Ethiopia's lighting victory over the short-lived Islamic Courts Union in Somalia has nearly vanished from the mainstrea...