Because Democracy is Not Free — we all have to work at it
I’ve been trying to be fair. . .I’ve been trying to be unbiased. Does that mean I can’t look at the news and be amazed at McCain’s new VP pick? She sounds like a typical power-wielding bully in the federal sector. [Sarah Palin] was accused of attempting to get a state trooper fired. That state trooper was her [...]
Not a single Mainstream Media outlet of note picked this up, but last week, the EEOC quietly posted its Annual Report on the Federal Workforce Fiscal Year 2007. Here’s the webpage, and here’s the PDF. I haven’t had a chance to take a look at the numbers yet, but when I do, I’ll report back. [...]
CNN Commentator Jack Cafferty begs to differ on the idea that the media talks down to us. According to Cafferty, it must be the collective whole that deserves what it gets. In a recent article, he states: I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too [...]
Reporter Paul Kiel of ProPublica writes, Last month the Department of Homeland Security disclosed a new database, called the Border Crossing Information (BCI) system, on page 43,457 of the 2008 Federal Register. Today, the Washington Post gives it Page One treatment. I guess the new way to read government documents is from right to left, [...]
On this kid show called Higglytown Heroes, a bunch of animated Midwestern weeble-wobbles go on adventures and find ordinary heroes. Some of the heroes have been police officers, librarians and locksmiths. I’m adding another today: investigative journalists. Two of my favorites, Eric Lichtblau and David Johnston have recently written another article on the anthrax case.* Both have [...]
Guess what’s number one on the New York Times bestseller list of nonfiction? “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” written by none other than Jerome Corsi, author of “Unfit For Command,” a book about John Kerry’s military service. Corsi is widely credited with swiftboating the former presidential candidate. Well, I don’t [...]
As I rally for personal responsibility and community spirit in government, I couldn’t help but note the following news pieces on CNN: Another Republican Senator Skipping Convention and Pelosi Not Happy with Some Clinton Backers Apparently, there are a few Republicans not taking the chance of aligning themselves with their party’s candidate. I’m all for [...]
Remember Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused of creating and setting off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics? How about Steven Hatfill, a government employee named as being a “person of interest” in the anthrax killings in 2001? Hatfill later settled with the government for $5.8 million dollars over a lawsuit in which he [...]
I’m a lot less interested in the political side of this CNN story than I am in the whole idea of media and newsworthyness. Here’s the relevant excerpt: David Carr, a columnist for The New York Times, said: “I was taught when I was a young reporter that it’s news when we say it is. [...]
Hidden away on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) website is a document entitled, “Annual Report, FY 2007.” It’s dated May 2008, and it contains statistics similar to those that I have been reporting for FY 2008. I’m amazed that this report exists, although I must say it was hard to find. From the highlights [...]