Do Some Constitutional Amendments Have More Rights Than Others?
Apparently it is so according to this headline from the LA Times: Call me crazy, but I thought our “inalienable rights” all had the same standing. ...
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Did The Pope Denounce The War In Iraq?
Maybe… VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI issued one of his strongest appeals for peace in Iraq on Sunday, days after the body of the kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop…...
Iraqis Have Bad Access To Health Care, Water
This, of course, is America’s fault and not at all the fault of Saddam Hussein, who let his nation’s infrastructure collapse for decades while he enriched himself, or the terrorists…...
Iraq Marketplace McCain Visited Last Year Too Dangerous For Americans To Visit Now
According to CNN: I’m not buying it. This is according to CNN and their “security advisers” and given the way the press responded to McCain’s visit to this market last…...
Obama Decries Racial Rhetoric?
Huh? Obama may be “decrying” racial rhetoric now that it’s become inconvenient for him politically, but for two decades before this he’s been going to church on Sunday to listen…...
Succumbing To Obama
Andrew Ferguson writing in the Weekly Standard: What is unmistakable is the creepy kind of solipsism and the air of self-congratulation that clings to his campaign. “There is something happening,”…...
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Media Shield Law Still In Question
As it should be. Media types talk a lot about accountability for politicians, but what about accountability for reporters and their sources? A shield law preventing reporters from being compelled…...
Media Duplicity On “Fair Use”
Mark Steyn: If you use Associated Press photographs to point out that AP pix from the Middle East seem awfully staged and that their local snappers seem to see themselves…...
Friday, March 14, 2008
When Did Eliot Spitzer Become A Republican?
Just curious...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Shocking News: Gun Owners Aren’t Just Criminals And Drug Dealers
Reuters with a big scoop: The American affinity for guns may puzzle foreigners who link high ownership rates and liberal gun ownership laws to the 84 gun deaths and 34…...
Fewer Americans Able To Idenity Number Of American Troop Deaths In Iraq
But the media is going to do their best to fix that. WASHINGTON - Fewer people know how many U.S. troops have died in the war in Iraq, even as…...
Harvard Study Illustrates Correlation Between Negative Media Stories And Increased Attacks In Iraq
Meaning, in plain terms, that negative media stories about the war seem to embolden terrorist attacks. Which means that a lot of the defeatist rhetoric coming from the Democrats and…...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Chris Matthews Goes At It With Barack Obama
Is the tingle gone? Matthews brings up the Pentagon-backed report about Saddam’s ties to al Qaeda I posted about yesterday. It’s worth noting that both Obama and Matthews jump to…...
Monday, March 10, 2008
Name That Party: Sex Scandal Special!
Check out this ABC News slide show of politicians who have gotten caught up in sex scandals. Twelve politicians are pictured (and one non-politician). Of the 12 politicians pictured, five…...
Pentagon-Backed Study: No Link Between Saddam’s Regime And Al Qaeda
McClatchy, last seen reporting on the devastating impact declining violence has had on Iraqi gravediggers, nails what will be the liberal spin on a new report from a Pentagon-backed study…...
Girl In Clinton Ad Is Actually An Obama Supporter
Anyone else getting a little tired of stories like this? I mean, yeah. It’s ironic that the girl in what was probably the most effective Hillary Clinton ad run this…...
Former Subsidiary Of Dick Cheney’s Former Company Might Have Made Iraq Soldiers Sick With Bad Water
Forget that KBR, the contractor in question, hasn’t been associated with Halliburton for nearly a year now. And Dick Cheney hasn’t been CEO of Halliburton for almost a decade now. …...
Friday, March 07, 2008
McCain Tees Off On Reporter
After a reporter asks about John Kerry asking him to be VP in 2004 McCain gets a little...hostile. I don’t think that politicians are always justified to go off on…...
Thursday, March 06, 2008
ABC Confuses Mitch McConnell With Harry Reid
Whoops: That, of course, isn’t Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at all but rather his Republican counterpart Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. That’s alright, ABC. All white Senators look alike.…...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
“U.S. military personnel have been raping Okinawans for the last 60-plus years.”
So says James Gibney of The Atlantic. Of course, Mr. Gibney is also kind enough to concede that “the overwhelming majority of U.S. military personnel aren’t sociopaths.” That was big…...
When It Comes To Iraq The Media Is Only Interested In Dead US Soldiers
It’s almost gruesome, isn’t it? The typical defense for this kind of behavior from media types is the “Safe airplane landings aren’t news” line. But it seems to me that…...
Microsoft Develops Program To Index Bias In News Stories
They’re taking the thinking out of news reading. I’m a fairly ardent critic of media bias, but I’m not sure this sort of thing is healthy for political discourse. Citizens…...
Murdering Cannibal On NBC Show Just Happens To Be An Ex-POW Senator From Arizona
Just a coincidence, I’m sure. ...
Keith “Bush Is A Fascist” Olbermann Lectures Public About Partisanship
And apparently manages to do it with a straight face. The thing about this “partisanship” stuff is that too often people who make the charge are trying to write off…...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Weather Channel Founder: Let’s Put Global Warming On Trial
Not a bad idea, I think, from Weather Channel founder John Coleman. Coleman also told the audience his strategy for exposing what he called “the fraud of global warming.” He…...
How Obama Acts When The Press Treats Him Like A Politician Instead Of A Messiah
The question is, though, is why did the media take so long in getting around to asking Obama the tough questions? ...
Monday, March 03, 2008
Jasper Schneider’s Personal Attack Dog
When it comes to the issues surrounding North Dakota’s worker’s compensation agency, Workforce Safety & Insurance, Fargo Attorney Mark Schneider gets a lot of press coverage. His is routinely the…...
Friday, February 29, 2008
Obama Weaves Silly Issue Of McCain’s Citizenship Into Gold
Obama may be a policy lightweight who uses flowery, feel-good rhetoric to cover up his radicalism but there’s no denying that he’s a deft politician. When the New York Times…...
US Soldier Gets To Fry CBS Reporter With Heat Gun
Living out a fantasy I think most soldiers, and probably most of the public, has had at one point or another. What a lucky, lucky guy. ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
New York Times Apparently To Run Story About McCain’s Citizenship Status
Fresh off smearing Senator McCain with an insinuated, and thinly-sourced, allegation of a sex scandal the New York Times is now apparently going to run a story questioning McCain’s citizenship…...
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