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NBC News losing more viewers than CBS

One of the small indignities of a high-paying television job is rising after getting home from Texas at 3:05 a.m. for a conversation about why your ratings are going south. Brian…

Michael Moore’s latest scam

What's the difference between art and propaganda? The artist wants to communicate and share and the propagandist wants to manipulate. Michael Moore is a talented filmmaker, a great marketer, and a…

How many more Americans must die?

As President George W. Bush continues to claim success in his failed Iraq war, the death toll of Americans dying in that "success" continues to increase. Eight Americans, along with a…

Many more Americans will die in Iraq

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday US forces face more tough fighting in Iraq and his top military adviser said the rising level of violence was the "wrong metric" for…

Our poor, underpaid federal judges

Recently, Chief Justice John Roberts devoted his entire annual report on the federal judiciary to complaining about how little federal judges are paid. (Trial court judges are paid $165,000 per…

Where’s the smoking gun?

Chairman John Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee in justifying the subpoenaing of two former top White House aides said that this was not just a request but a "demand"…

The ‘Generalization’ of Iraq

A surprising surge of optimism has just bubbled up from America's famously circumspect and straight-talking top military man in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. Next came a not-surprising rush to rebuke…

An overwhelming lack of common sense

A young man of 17 engages in a consensual Clintonesque sexual activity at a party with a 15-year-old girl and is put away for 10 years and must register as…

Hard times for the NAACP

The recent announcement by the NAACP of a major retrenchment due to funding shortfalls received brief coverage and got scant attention. But I think it is an important story that should…

Moore admits omissions from films

Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore admitted Saturday he left details of a discussion with then General Motors chairman Roger Smith out of the documentary that launched his controversial career but claimed…