SCOTUS - Conservative group opposes Roberts
A conservative organization based in Virginia is expressing its opposition to the nomimation of John Roberts to the Supreme Court. Why? The gays. Public Advocate of The United States is not...
View ArticleWhen is a terrorist not a terrorist?
Authorities took a man into custody for attempting to bring a homemade explosive device onto an airplane in Oklahoma City. The man is, apparently, not a terrorist. The Washington Post reports:...
View ArticleIraqis extend constitutional deadline
They missed the deadline favored by the Bush Administration. The concern now is that they will be forced by law to dissolve the constitutional assembly and hold new elections. The main sticking point...
View ArticleDoD Reacts to WaPo "Freedom Walk" withdrawal
The Dept. of Defense registers its official disappointment with the Washington Post for withdrawing its support for the "Freedom Walk," the event being touted as a memorial to those who died on 9/11....
View Article.XXX - U.S. asks for porn domain delay
The United States, in the guise of the Commerce Department, is asking ICANN to delay final approval of a .xxx domain suffix for adult content websites. The AP reports that Commerce has received more...
View ArticleCindy Sheehan drives Limbaugh clinically insane
One-woman anti-war movement Cindy Sheehan has that certain Je ne sais quoi. I might not know what it is, exactly, but I know what it does. It drives Bush supporters crazy. When I write "crazy," I...
View ArticleWaPo: "Roberts Resisted Women's Rights"
What is initially noteworthy about this Washington Post article is its title. Roberts Resisted Women's RightsNot, "Democrats say Roberts resisted women's rights," or "Critics: Roberts resisted...
View ArticleIraq has a constitution... except that it doesn't
I guess it depends on what the meaning of the word "constitution" is. Iraq has a draft constitution... except that it doesn't. There are, according to Hajim al-Hasani, the speaker of Iraq's national...
View ArticleWhom would Jesus assassinate?
Pat Robertson advocates the murder of a foreign head-of-state. Literally. Via Media Matters, Robertson made the remarks on the 700 Club. He was discussing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. There is...
View ArticleRobertson: Okay, I DID say "assassination," after all
It is getting hard to keep up. Pat Robertson now admits that, yes, he did in fact call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He didn't really mean it, though. Bro. Robertson...
View ArticleWhy Bush fiddled around as N.O. flooded
Many people have been wondering why, as Hurricane Katrina plowed through Louisiana into Mississippi and Alabama, President Bush saw fit to spend his time yukking it up with old people, having birthday...
View ArticleBaton Rouge - It's the new New Orleans!
Baton Rouge is now Louisiana's largest city. Seventy miles west of New Orleans, the state capital of Baton Rouge and its surrounding parish received its own storm surge overnight: a huge wave of...
View ArticleMeanwhile, anybody remember Iraq?
Failure at home, failure abroad. President Bush's incompetence grows more lethal every day. In Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi has taken control of Qaim, a city near the Syrian border. A sign newly posted...
View ArticleLimbaugh: New Orleans Mayor "Nayger"
Via The Raw Story, Rush Limbaugh referred to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as "Nayger." Yeah. The walk-back on this will, of course, be to the effect that Limbaugh simply misspoke, had a slip of the...
View ArticleGreat Post-Katrina Poll Numbers!
How great? A stunning 85 percent of those polled say "great job!" No, not for Bush. Not for Governor Blanco or Mayor Nagin ("Nayger" for any dittoheads reading this). The politician getting such great...
View ArticleGoogle Blog Search - Good or bad?
At first blush, it seems like a good thing that Google has dedicated a search engine to blogs. From the article: The new tool, unveiled on Wednesday at blogsearch.google.com, focuses exclusively on the...
View ArticleiPod nano - What about THE CAR?!
Most everyone who has handled the iPod nano likes it. The reviews are overwhelmingly, though by no means universally, positive. But, this sentence from David Pogue's review in the Times got my...
View ArticleBush links Katrina and War on Terror
President Bush compared the recovery from Hurricane Katrina to the War on Terror. Mr. Bush said he had been "thinking a lot" about the comparisons between the response to the attacks in New York and...
View ArticleLimbaugh savages Sheehan... again
According to Rush Limbaugh, Cindy Sheehan is not smart, is not a leader, is not a patriot... and doesn't matter anyhow. Via Media Matters, Limbaugh took the safety off and went after Ms. Sheehan with...
View ArticleMiers helped to promote "liberal ideas" at SMU
President Bush finds himself with nowhere to hide on abortion. Interestingly, it is his determination to obscure his SCOTUS nominee's views that places him in this position. Harriet Miers was...
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