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Don’t Be Railroaded

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 26, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s hard to believe people still use railroads, much less get injured by them. I mean, it’s 2007. Where are our rocket packs and bubble domes and atomized reconstructive transportation beaming technology? I thought railroads went out of fashion when Atlas Shrugged dropped off the New York Times’ Best Seller list, but apparently it’s still [...]

HR Puff ‘n’ Stuff

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 19, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Obviously, I am not a great fool…you would have counted on it! So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. From the Huffington Post, a link to a New York Times article with the waspishly hopeful headline Senior Officer in Iraq: American Enterprise in Iraq ‘Could Still Fail’. Would I be [...]

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 28, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Can the New York Times be trusted? Oh, if only it were a simple query with a simple response. As murky as the waters of the question posed above are, there is no doubt of the clarity of deceit posed by the NY Times’ editorial decisions, giving voice to, as Instapundit calls it, “out-and-out dishonesty” [...]

Welcome Democracy

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 30, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

This is an historic day, of course. Just because it sounds trite doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be said. Today is historic for a lot of reasons, most of which you probably won’t find in your copy of the New York Times. Though the mainstream media isn’t making a huge deal of it, Iraqi democratic [...]

Iraqi Troops Forced to Fight

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 27, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

And this article from the New York Times (registration required) reports what many have feared for some time: Iraqi troops are being forced to fight under the threat of death. The scene after Tuesday night’s battle suggested an Iraqi force that was not as spirited as some of those that American troops have encountered recently [...]

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