:: Netmarcos' Notes ::

:: Thursday, April 27, 2006 ::

A touching and honest comment about United 93 from someone who knows a bit about the subject. Please read it and pay attention.

:: Mark 8:41 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Wow. It is hard to select an excerpt from this in the Wall Street Journal. You should read the whole thing - slowly and carefully.

The press is also inventing a preposterous double standard that is supposed to help us all distinguish between bad leaks (the Plame name) and virtuous leaks (whatever Ms. McCarthy might have done). Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie has put himself on record as saying Ms. McCarthy should not 'come to harm' for helping citizens hold their government accountable. Of the Plame affair, by contrast, the Post's editorial page said her exposure may have been an 'egregious abuse of the public trust.'
It would appear that the only relevant difference here is whose political ox is being gored, and whether a liberal or conservative journalist was the beneficiary of the leak. That the press sought to hound Robert Novak out of polite society for the Plame disclosure and then rewards Ms. Priest and Mr. Risen with Pulitzers proves the worst that any critic has ever said about media bias.

:: Mark 8:08 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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TCS Daily - Fear of Confrontation: "One can view Islamic militants as armed versions of unruly teenagers. We should not feel guilty toward them. We should demand reasonable and decent behavior from them, rather than excuse their tantrums or their crimes."

:: Mark 5:34 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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