The UK media, surprisingly, has been all over President Obama the last week or so after the bungled handling of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit to the US by Obama officials - and Obama himself. The Telegraph has apparently discovered the root of the problem: Barack Obama is in over his hea...

Like New York and dozens of other American cities, Minneapolis is facing the prospect of higher transit fares and less service amid the economic downturn. To impress upon state lawmakers that their constituents depend on transit to meet basic needs, the St. Stephen's Human Rights Campaign compiled t...

The paper uses the term loophole to describe the law: For the next three years, as many as 15 D.C. residents will enjoy a right denied their neighbors - the right to own recently banned semiautomatic weapons. A discrepancy between D.C. laws approved last year enabled the residents to register semiau...

One thing I’m used to hearing the press say so that it can justify so many of the poor decisions it makes is that there is a right to know. No, there is not. You do not have a right to know. Period. But this boneheaded argument is new: Handgun permit records have long been public records, and ...

I don’t know what’s worse: The fact that Time magazine devoted an entire page to trying to determine whether Coke or Pepsi was the Obama administration’s beverage of choice, or the fact that contained within the piece was the news that Pepsi has now taken to using Obama slogans and...

Rocky Mountain News, one of America's oldest newspapers, is calling it a day. From Rocky Mountain News: Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Rocky-owner Scripps, broke the news to the staff at noon today, ending nearly three months of speculation over the paper's future. "People are in grief," Ed...

You’ll remember Max Brantley published a list of Arkansas handgun carry permit holders in some alt-weekly. And, by golly, if there wasn’t some uproar and then a bill proposed to make this illegal. One would think that these reporter types might actually stop and think before doing someth...

If a bill making it’s way through the capitol passes, it would be a crime to publish handgun carry permit records. In their attempt to crap on the second amendment, the Commercial Appeal has, ironically, crapped on the first amendment. Again, thank you. Without you, this wouldn’t have be...

On the guns in parks bills, Metro Nashville parks director needs to drink a nice big cup of calm his ass down: These are places for fun, not guns. You mention this and my blood boils. That would put our children in harm’s way. That’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever hear...

I know papers are struggling and all but every time you turn around, some idiotic paper is publishing lists of handgun carry permit holders. This time, it’s The Arkansas Times’ Max Brantley. And the reason papers do this is to generate a buzz and traffic since such a list really has no r...