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Headline: Marines deny airstrikes used against insurgents in Ramadi The corrected headline should be: No Airstrikes Occurred at Ramadi, and We Don't Have the Integrity to Acknowledge Our Original Error in Reporting Them Patterico has noticed ("L.A. Times (Almost) Admits Ramadi Airstrike Didn’t Happen") and promises much more later. Also, Hot Air has weighed in. Here's a reminder of original…

In the wake of the Dem victory of November, Paul Krugman isn't merely doing a victory dance. He brings to mind one of those ardent football fans up in the stands after his team scores the winning touchdown. Stripped to the waist, painted in team colors, getting up in the face of an opposing fan to taunt "na-na-na-na, goodbye" followed by a rousing chorus of "start the bus."In his pay-per-view…

The last paragraph of their Wednesday editorial (my bold) makes the point that the wire service, its defenders, and those who want to see the whole to-do as being about "just one incident," won't see, or won't admit to seeing:What is clear about all this is that nothing is clear. Maybe there's a Jamil Hussein with the Iraqi police, but he's a sergeant, not a captain. Maybe there's a police…

Atheist activist Sam Harris recently proclaimed on National Public Radio that America needed a lot more mockery of religious belief.