Official Newsweek Journalistic Policy

Boortz Notes Newsweak’s claim that journistic standards didn’t get dropped in this “Koran Flushing” nonsnese.

Boortz suggests that if that statement is true, their journalistic standards are best expressed thus:

* The Bush Administration didn’t rely on faulty intelligence in

James at Outside The Beltway :

“Newsweek has formally retracted its report that American soldiers flushed a Koran down a toilet to induce prisoners at Guantnamo to talk. In fact, the documentary evidence indicates just the opposite: an almost absurd

Scott Fybush over at NorthEast Radio Watch gives us an update on Cranston RI mayor Steve Laffey. According to Scott, Laffey is….

….now suing the state Board of Elections over the ruling that Laffey’s (now cancelled) Friday talk show on

Tom Alday notes that

Seattle congressman Jim McDermott, first class loon, idiot and terrorist sympathizer, will be the first House member to face the Ethics Committee, not the “embattled” Tom Delay.

Follow the link for the details.

Funny thing, how

From Outside The Beltway comes word that the NYT is moving it’s Columnists to “Subscriber Only” status.

Which, I think, will certainly sheild the NYT from the outrage of Joe and Jane Everyone. Who, but leftists… and far out wacko

From Deutsche Welle comes words of a stork in Krogaspe, more or less 120 kilometers north of Hamburg, wherein there’s a would-be momma and poppa stork, trying to hatch out a pile of golf balls, on a driving range.

Must

So says CBS:

After a three-year hunt involving investigators across the U.S. and Canada, a young girl who was featured on the Internet in a series of sexually explicit photographs has been found and is safe, police say.

The

McQ at Q&)::

“Riots in Afghanistan and inquiry by Saudi Arabia are the result of a Newsweek story about an alleged incident of flushing the Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

The alleged incident was perpetrated,

My mailbox today is loaded to the gills with people forwarding me this disturbing link from Der Spiegel:

In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying

OK, I didn’t do much with the blog over the weekend.

Here’s one reason.

Thomas, doing his thing.

This weekend turned out to be kid-centered. I’ll be posting some thoughts about the weekend’s events in Bit’s Bits. Watch here for

To explain yesterday, I need to take you back a four years. My younger boy found himself wrapped in Thomas the Tank Engine. Over the previous years, we had obtained, either used or new, perhaps every tape that the Britt

Watcher of Weasels notes the bit with the plane in DC’s airspace yesterday, and suggests this may be a fairly solid case against the use of the wet dream of the 1963 world’s fair…. flying cars.

Chuck at YOU BIG MOUTH YOU passes along information about a Girl Scout troop delivering cookes to Sailors on station in Singapore, aboard the USS SAFEGUARD.

A great story.

WSB in Atlanta has the base closure story up, with the list.

I’d like a bit of time to study it before I comment at length… but off the top, the only two I have major complaints about are the

Richard Pryor via The Quotations Page:

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, “I wanna grow up and be a critic.”

It strikes me in reading this quote that this is exactly the role that