Mark Steyn, re Mr. Cheney’s hunting accident:
Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: “This incident,” he mused, “reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969.”
Hmm. Let’s [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2006 by pwyll
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Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson wants to dispel “inaccuracies and stereotypes” about use of eminent domain for economic development, a practice the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in last year’s notorious Kelo v. New London decision.
Last fall Mr. Peterson told a Senate subcommittee that when the government threatens to condemn people’s property because it thinks someone else [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2006 by pwyll
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You know why they’re mad, right? You know why David Gregory did everything but need a diaper change on national TV the other day?
It’s because a small-town reporter at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times got the story before they did. David Gregory needs a binky because the adorable Kathryn Garcia got the story before he did.
The [...]
Posted on February 16th, 2006 by pwyll
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I admire Radley Balko’s work at The Agitator. I’d love to hear candidates for Governor of Florida comment on this one.
I don’t know why, but it never occured to me that Richard Paey might have been apprehended by a SWAT team when officials in Florida decided to nail him for daring to relieve his own [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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My hometown broadsheet, editorializing about Those Danish Cartoons, states that responsible newpapers like itself… “have reported on the cartoons but refrained from showing them. That seems a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols, especially since the cartoons are so easy to describe in words.”
It then promtly illustrates [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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A letter from the Mayor of Tall ‘Afar, Ninewa, Iraq to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, via the Mudville Gazette.
In the Name of God the Compassionate and Merciful
To the Courageous Men and Women of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, who have changed the city of Tall’ Afar from a ghost town, in which terrorists spread [...]
Posted on February 13th, 2006 by pwyll
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