Peggy Noonan had an excellent column Saturday that I hope you can read (since I'm a subscriber, it's hard for me to tell whether the links I post to the WSJ are subscriber-only or not). It's about how the U.S. Marine Corps dealt with its own culpability in a tragic plane crash that kille...

Back in the first comment on this post, Lee mentioned James Fallows' excellent book, Breaking the News: The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy -- which, as it happens, I actually reviewed for this newspaper when it came out. Here's what I wrote, back in 1996: THE STATE MEDIA EX...

    Yep, you already read this here, back on Friday. But I post it not for you blog regulars, but for folks who saw it first in the paper today, and decided to come here for the version with links.     And if you did that, welcome to the blog... By BRAD WARTHENEDI...

Charles Krauhammer made the point most clearly, in his column for today: The Biden prophecy has come to pass. Our wacky veep, momentarily inspired, had predicted last October that ``it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama.'' Biden probably had in mind an eve-of-the-apoc...

Note Cindi's column today about Sheriff Lott and Michael Phelps. Originally (in a somewhat condensed form), it was going to be an editorial -- that is, an expression of the consensus of the editorial board as a whole. Trouble is, we didn't reach consensus. We were all in agreement that the s...

Peggy Noonan had an intriguing column Saturday, about what she was seeing in Manhattan in terms of real, street-level effects of the recession. Here's an excerpt:     This is New York five months into hard times.    One senses it, for the first time: a shift i...

Seeking a column for tomorrow's page, I took a look at a writer I haven't run before (near as I can recall), Dick Polman of The Philadelphia Inquirer, who had written a column headlined, "Governing in the Real World." It was pretty standard stuff, noting a tendency that usually hol...

So, if you were invited to simultaneous birthday parties today, for Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, and the actual honorees would be there alive and participating in the celebration, which one would you go to? Me, I'd pick Lincoln. They say he was a lot of fun at parties. Also, I look up to ...

Just got this e-mail a little while ago from a reader (I guess it was a reader, anyway): The headlines today said that McCain claims Obama "must" consult with the GOP on stimulus talks. That's not true, any more than saying that Ronald Reagan was required to allow Dems much input in hi...

There's nothing unusual about this, but about the thousandth time this morning, in reading an editorial from the weekend in The New York Times, I......