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If you follow the lefty blogs at all, you know that they're pretty excited about their prospects in 2006. Granted, and as this blog and thousands of others have pointed out, Democrats aren't exactly going to enter 2006 loaded with...

Body chipped from glacier likely a WWII airman

The only problem the Chief has with this is NOT the factual circumstances of the story itself, but rather with the journalistic caution.

"...Likely a WWII Airman."

Well now. This is hard. Human remains were found in a cake of ice. 13000 ft up the mountainside. Wearing WWII Army uniform, flight suit, and parachute. Had obviously been up there for some period of time. NOW - what are the possibilities. WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet-nam era, or Civilian?

Hmmmmmm? (Think, think!) A WWII outfit? Well now, we can say he was
"...Likely a WWII Airman." Phew! Anything to avoid coming to a simple conclusion based on clear factual evidence, which might set a bad journalistic precedent for the rest of the media.

In fairness, the DC Times is generally a cut above the rest of the MSM - but this is NOT one of their higher moments - maybe that's why it struck my attention.

I'm sitting here watching the Avs-Blackhawks game, and the OT finished 2-2. I finally get to see my first hockey shoot out of the season. Hopefully Peter Budaj is good enough to keep one or two of them out. Three...

Porky from The Little Rascals has died....

If true, this is very odd:A friend in the newspaper business informed me that the Argus Leader is putting up newspaper racks in the SF-area convenience stores and such to help the stores supposedly better organize the free newspapers being...

It should come as no surprise that MoveOn.org astroturfed the shit out of the Freeh interview on 60 Minutes....

It's some "100 Best novels" list that seems worth fighting over, and this time it's put together by Time magazine. Allegedly they've assembled the 100 best novels since 1923, but as you'll see they hit a few potholes along the...

In an earlier post on free speech, I suggested on possible case in which a university might be justified in interfering with a Professor's expression of his or her opinions. The case was a professor who openly advocated genocide. Well,...

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