From CBS News: The Kerry campaign was slow in countering the Swift Boat charges, the allegations persisted and Kerry’s bad August ensued. Kerry led most polls leading into August. By the second week of September, President Bush had come back and now has a four-to-seven point lead over Kerry, depending on the poll. I’m just… Continue reading

From a letter to John Ellis: If CBS were to acknowledge the documents to be a forgery, then they could not claim ethical responsibility to protect their sources. Once implicated, the sources might further implicate those who encouraged them. Where would this lead? Has any reporter ever gone to jail for protecting the source of… Continue reading

Jonah Goldberg on Dan Rather: Well, if you agree with Rather, maybe you should give just a smidgen more slack to George W. Bush about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Bush’s sources were more solid by several orders of magnitude than Rather’s, and yet it is “obvious” to so many… Continue reading

Bad news for Apple Computer: The Beatles’ company, Apple Corps., is involved in a legal battle with Jobs’ Apple Computer, claiming the hardware manufacturer is in breach of a 1991 agreement that that forbids it from using the trademark for any application “whose principle content is music.” The two companies have been involved in a… Continue reading

Think about this, from Chris Suellentrop at Slate: Nothing Kerry said in Cincinnati could compensate for the blunder he made the day before when he stood before cameras on the tarmac of the Cincinnati airport and expressed his sorrow for the 1,000th American casualty in Iraq. “More than 1,000 of America’s sons and daughters have… Continue reading