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I’ve been waiting a bit to comment on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. There are a lot of opinions out there, and I’m happy most of all that people are talking and writing and thinking about issues, humor and satire vs. criticism and insult, comedy as news, the role of a court jester, and so [...]

Cozy with the Bush administration, Judith Miller may go to jail to protect their leakers (Rove and whoever is intended eventually to take the fall for his action - wherever will they find another Ollie North?). Normally I would be on the side of journalists to protect their anonymous sources, but in this case it [...]

Dennis Rahkonen (’The Republican Wile E. Coyote‘, 6-27-05) thinks that Durbin’s apology was unwise. In his view, we should perhaps be making more actual historical comparisions between this administration and that of Hitler’s Germany. Here are some starter questions for eager researchers…
Did German motorists have “Support Our Troops” ribbons on their Volkswagens in 1943?
Did [...]