In one of the less insightful wire stories of the year the Associated Press reported today that President Bush is responsible for the consumption of an enormous amount of fuel. He rides in the Air Force One, helicopters, and in heavily armored limousines all of which require increasingly expensive gasoline. Furthermore, the bill gets steeper every day as the White House is rocked […]

Overlawyered: “Doctor in trouble for calling patient obese”
The New Hampshire Board of Medicine is asking the attorney general’s office to investigate a complaint by a woman that Dr. Terry Bennett told her she was obese. (Complete story at Overlawyered).
If Independent Sources had been there we would have also diagnosed her as being an over-sensitive litigious […]

Cinnamon Stillwell provides a great wrap-up of all the recent anti-military activity in the Bay Area. From SF Gate.com:
Not content with simply protesting the war, they’ve trained their sights on all things military. In an apparent effort to rid the city of any semblance of its military history, various leftist groups, and even some city […]

David Sifry, founder of the blog search engine Technorati, posted an interesting table of the number of links into major websites or blogs. It shows the Los Angeles Times to be the #18 most-linked to media site, behind — among newspapers — the NYT, WaPo, Guardian, USA Today, and SF Gate (SF Chronicle):

To be sure, […]

From Hugh Hewitt:

Long overdue: The country’s best city blog is LA Observed. (If you disagree, send me the would-be competitor.) Every city (and town) deserves a Kevin Roderick. Even if he is partial to the Los Angeles Times.

Independent Sources has found him to be quite fair when linking to our stories (even those which […]

Le vacation is over — time to strike!
Union organisers are planning this year’s “rentrée chaude”, traditionally France’s main strike season as the nation returns to work after the summer holidays, as a gradual build-up of protest rather than a sudden call to arms.
“We are all aware of the need for a collective response across all […]

The old Ms. magazine, “I am Woman” notion of ‘comparable worth’ is stirring from its grave — an unintended consequence of the John Roberts nomination to the Supreme Court.
Reagan administration official Linda Chavez, in an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal ($?), reminds us what the comparable worth movement was:
Comparable worth was intended to eliminate […]

Gator Watch 2005!
For Angelenos who are accustom to local stories consisting of freeway shootings, papparazzi run-ins and the like, the alligator story is like a breath of fresh air. Of course, since it’s LA, it’s being handled in true LA fashion (meaning it’s the “sizzle” not the “steak” that matters). Sensing its importance, media watcher LA […]

This is how the Los Angeles Times reported on Able Danger in their 8/23 article “No Evidence Atta Was Identified, Official Says“:

The Pentagon has been unable to validate claims that a secret intelligence unit identified Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta as a terrorist more than a year before the attacks, a Defense Department spokesman said. […]

This San Francisco Chronicle article suggests there’s another reason to spend your money at Target: they’re being boycotted for supporting the Governor on Proposition 76 –
A California consumer group is telling seniors not to shop at Target stores because of the more than $300,000 the retailer has given to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
California Consumers United has […]

Before even having a chance to read Paul Krugman’s latest column “Don’t Prettify our History,” I read Patterico’s assessment of it so I knew that it would be a doozy, even for Krugman:

If this were the only thing I had ever read by Paul Krugman, it would be enough to conclude that this man has […]

San Francisco’s rejection of the Battleship Iowa and an associated museum of WW2 and the Cold War is back in the news again. When we first posted about it in July — San Francisco Rejects “Some Military Honor Thing” (We Call It The Battleship Iowa) — we noted that the San Francisco supervisors seemed to […]

A new poll shows John Kerry trailing Hillary Clinton in a potential 2008 Democratic presidential primary, 33% - 21% … in Kerry’s home state of Massachusetts. Next were John Edwards and his hair (14%) and Joe Biden (11%). The survey was conducted last week by the Boston Globe.
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H/t: Brendan Nyhan

Technorati Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, […]

The California State Association of Counties published a list of bills currently in the Legislature that address eminent domain post-Kelo. You can see the status of each, the full text of the bill, status, and its history by searching here. This is pretty dry stuff — to read the list, click on “Read the rest […]

The victims were all “satisfied with the established order, all the accomplices and employees of Property and the State … there are no innocent bourgeois.”
- not Ward Churchill — anarchist bomber Emile Henry, justifying his actions circa 1893. He killed one person and injured 19, and is reported to regret that he did not kill […]