Free Republic

One of the truly funny "street" gags about the Soviet press, was a fairly commonplace play-on-words that spread throughout the old Soviet block of nations many, many years ago. It went something like this: "There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and no Izvestia in Pravda," which meant, ”There is no Truth in the News; and no News in the Truth." Well, First Amendment fans -- apparently not much has changed! During his recent demi-summit with Valdimir Putin, when President George Bush raised free press issues and other democracy-related issues with this former head of the KGB, Putin actually brought up...

Notes From Out of the Blue . . . Greetings from New Jersey, a State which on Monday will shed Governor James McGreevey, who has single-handedly rewritten the book on personal and political recklessness, to the point that he is now obliged to resign in disgrace. The Governor has been awash in examples of high-risk political behavior since taking office. Many of these have been well documented, including during the final run-up to his resignation Monday, November 15th, as in a recent Gannet compilation found at http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m110704c.htm. But the Governor has also taken part in unacceptably high-risk personal behavior, the...