Happy New Year (To All Those In The Central Time Zone)
Hope you all are having an enjoyable holiday. Jess and I had a quiet evening. We had plans to go…...
December, 2005
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Clash of Civilizations
I heard it remarked recently that, since the invasion of Iraq, President Bush has gotten us into a clash of…...
Followup: AP Reports That Nothing Is Illegal About White House Website Visit Counters
The dumbest story of the year, just barely edging out previous reporting on the use of cookies on the NSA…...
Rattling The Saber
Interesting... The United States government reportedly began coordinating with NATO its plans for a possible military attack against Iran. The…...
An Answer To The Question
Back on October 26th editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich published this in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The names above are those of…...
Fired British Ambassador Leaks Secret Memos
This story has been making a lot of liberals hyperventilate with outrage in the last day or so. LONDON -…...
Anticipating Liberal Spin On The NSA Leak Investigation
Earlier today I posted about the Department of Justice's announcement that they will be going forward with an investigation into…...
Kent Conrad Is A Liar
BISMARCK – North Dakota and Minnesota congressional delegations do not want the Patriot Act to expire, they said Tuesday. Democratic…...
Hunger Striking Gitmo Detainees Being Force-Fed
BBC - There are credible allegations that Guantanamo hunger strikers are being force-fed in a cruel manner, the UN special…...
Thong Shot
How to tell when we're in a slow news cycle...
humor, slow news day, thong...
Success Has Many Fathers…
...but failure is an orphan. You remember those jerks. The ones from school who took credit when others did something…...
Friday, December 30, 2005
Carter Got Intelligence From A Psychic (And Says That We’re Not Really At War With Terrorists)
From a GQ interview with America's worse President ever: [GQ]: One of the promises you made in 1976 was that…...
Another Covert Anti-Terror Program Made Public By Illegal Leaks
Captain Ed: This time, the Washington Post uses its contacts in the CIA to expose an umbrella program called GST,…...
Big Oil Moves Back To Libya
Cool... TRIPOLI, Libya (UPI) -- Three big U.S. energy companies are back in Libya after a two-decade absence from the…...
The Plague Of Success
Victor Davis Hanson: ...our affluent society is at a complete disconnect with hard physical work and appreciation of how tenuous…...
States Who Took In Katrina Refugees Being Asked To Search For Sex Predators
WASHINGTON (AP) — Governors in states that accepted Katrina evacuees are being urged to locate about 2,000 registered sex offenders…...
Cognitive Dissonance
BummerDietz: Cognitive dissonance is a psychological discomfort, and the human reaction to eliminate the discomfort, experienced by 60's Dems who…...
The Bombs of Bangladesh
At just under 57,000 square miles and over 144 million people, Bangladesh is a country with about half the population…...
Iraqi Sunnis Hopeful About International Investigation Into Election
There has been a lot of protests (and some violence) from Sunnis over the results of the recent election in…...
Justice Department Probing NSA Leak
Excellent... WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush's…...
Pot Meet Kettle
Tom Matzzie, a director for MoveOn.org, commenting on the right-leaning, non-profit advocacy group Move America Forward: "When you have people…...
“I’m Here From The Government To Help You” Is A Big Lie
Government is at it’s worst when trying to do anything other than what it should, keeping our country safe from…...
Thursday, December 29, 2005
DNC Enters The Cookie Controversy
Lately the AP has been making some noise about cookies on government webistes. First was this alarmist bit of yellow…...
Teens Accused Of Being Lesbians Sue To Get Back In School
Hmm... RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Two 16-year-olds who were expelled from a Lutheran high school because they were suspected of being…...
U.S. Launching Phased Pullout From Iraq
This should come as welcome news to both sides of the Iraq war debate. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -…...
Toying With Treason
The New York Post: Has The New York Times declared itself to be on the front line in the war…...
The Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny
I have no idea why, but this has to be one of the most amusing flash animations I've ever seen.…...
Bush Most Admired Man In America
PRINCETON, NJ -- President George W. Bush is the clear choice as the most admired man in Gallup's annual poll…...
The Virtues Of Waterboarding
Hmm... Moral and legal aspects aside, conventional wisdom is that torture simply isn't practical: that someone who is being tortured…...
The President’s Vision For Iraq Paying Off
David Limbaugh: It is amusing to watch liberals try to explain away the recent upswing in President Bush's approval rating,…...
Embarrassing Parents
A joke forwarded to me by a reader: One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did…...
More On The Rasmussen Poll
I've noticed that many on the left (typical response here) are discounting the results of the Rasumussen poll I posted…...
Republican Approval Trending Up
More poll results for your consideration... Gallup asked respondents to "please say if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion…...
Aussies Pull Chirac-Bush-Queen Elizabeth Threeway Billboards
Classy... VIENNA, Austria Dec 28, 2005 — Her Majesty would not have been amused. Neither would President Bush or his…...
More Blowback For Democrats On NSA/National Security Issues
Interesting... Some centrist Democrats say attacks by their party leaders on the Bush administration's eavesdropping on suspected terrorist conversations will…...
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
ACLU Challenges Profiling
Earlier today Fox News reported that the ACLU has filed a lawsuit against behavioral profiling at Logan Airport in Boston.…...
Scary NSA Story Of The Day: A Cookie Controversy
NEW YORK - The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their…...
The Living, Breathing Constitution
Alex Tabarrok: Liberals are claiming that President Bush has violated constitutional restrictions on torture and spying on Americans. Don't they…...
Terrorists Demand French Retreat From Iraq
You read that headling correctly. A previously unheard of Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of French engineer…...
Bush Didn’t Lie
From the Chicago Tribune: After reassessing the administration's nine arguments for war, we do not see the conspiracy to mislead…...
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