It will be recalled that in 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney famously told Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill that the economic lesson of the Reagan administration had been that “deficits don’t matter.”
Democrats, who’d suddenly became deficit hawks during the economic boom…
Maureen Dowd | New York Times
Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, was accused of plagiarism yesterday in her Sunday column.
Dowd, who wrote the book “Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide” (Putnam, 2005), is accused of lifting, almost verbatim,…
ZIP may be a chemical version of Tommie Lee Jones' neuralizer.
We were heartened by stories in The New York Times this week about researchers who have found a chemical that can erase memories. So far, it’s just in rats (that awful…
Pastor Ed Young Jr.
In the beginning (last February) Pastor Paul Wirth of the Relevant Church of Ybor City, Fla., created the “30-Day Sex Challenge.”
Lo, did Pastor Wirth challenge husbands and wives in his flock to have sex for 30 days in…
William Hogarth: The Election I: An election entertainment (1754)
As near as we can tell, the 2008 presidential election first was referenced in the Post-Dispatch on Sept. 23, 2003, when then-New York Times columnist William Safire threw out the first name:…
The New York Times reports today that our loyal allies in Iraq have begun arresting leaders of the so-called “Great Awakening” movement. That’s the mostly Sunni movement made up of former allies of Al Qaida in Iraq who switched sides in…
The New York Times describes an appearance by CBS News’ top foreign correspondent, Lara Logan, on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show where she talked about how hard it is to get news about Iraq printed these days. According to Ms. Logan, it takes a pretty…
In what is, I guess, becoming a sort of recurring theme lately, I thought I’d point out perhaps the most potentially dangerous example of an attempt to censor what has until now been the freest medium for speech — the Internet.
Steve Boriss, of our own Washington…
Centuries of scientific progress have given us more informed views about illness and the people it strikes, or so we like to think. But that’s not always the case.
We’re reminded of that by a New York Historical Society exhibition that…
