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With all due respect to the police officer who was murdered in Fulton County, Georgia yesterday, the police down there are utterly incompetent. I say that with some level of confidence after reading the top stories this morning.
A good opinion piece in the Washington Post this morning by Anne Applebaum about President Bush’s appointment of John Bolton as United Nations ambassador, and the UN as an institution.
After 24 years, tonight will be Dan Rather’s last night as anchor of CBS Evening News.
I kept my mouth shut through his anti-Bush smear campaign leading up to our recent election because, let’s face it, nobody really watches CBS Evening News and Rather had little-to-no effect on the election (despite his best efforts). But, on the eve of his belated departure, I will let you know what I think.
A few weeks ago, I was watching television and I saw one of those attention-getting news teasers. You know what I’m talking about—”Nuclear war might start soon, details at eleven!” and so on. This particular night, we were told that a child pornography ring had been discovered (and its members, of course, arrested) somewhere in the DC metro area.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
