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

Apparently Pat Buchanan’s new book continues his rants about the supposedly nefarious influence of Jews—er, excuse me, I mean neocons on the Grand Old Party: I’m reviewing it for TCS. I wondered what his source was for the following passage, on pp. 53-54: “In 1996, Irving Kristol had written: ‘With the end of the Cold… Continue reading

“Tell ’em we’re coming,” it read on the front of the shirts… “And hell is coming with us . . . .” No, it’s not John Kerry’s new campaign slogan (although maybe it should be?). It’s the Red Sox.