'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem is not obviously amenable to a solution, and it certainly is not amenable to a legal one. A regime of media regulation that would be both effective at preventing mass shootings and consistent with the American Constitution is no easier to imagine than a regime of gun regulation that would meet the same criteria.