Daily Archives: July 26th, 2005 «

 

Fewer people link Islam, violence

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 8:59 pm » 11 Comments

I can only scratch my head on this one (make sure to scroll down for more comment from me): The percentage of Americans who believe Islam is more likely than other religions to inspire violence has declined in the past two years, according to a poll taken after the London bombings. Just over a third, [...]

 

Pre-war Iraq and Syria: closer than we thought

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 8:43 pm » Comments Off

I wonder what else passed back and forth over their borders during the UN sanctions? IRS Docs Detail Ties Between Syria, Iraq WASHINGTON — Syria had $3 billion in illegal oil-import and arms-export deals with Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to documents obtained by the House International Relations Committee. The documents, prepared by IRS [...]

 

Incredible blog just added to the ST blogroll

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 4:51 pm » Comments Off

Via Mudville Gazette, I visited Michael Yon’s blog. Michael is a writer/blogger/journalist currently in Iraq who gives an in depth, personal perspective of what’s going on there that you will rarely – if ever – find in our liberal press. I may be late to the ballgame in adding him – many others may already [...]

 

Nadagate: the latest

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 4:37 pm » Comments Off

Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has tons of links and comment on the latest developments in this ‘scandal.’ Go here, here, and here, for starters, but there’s much more so make sure you scroll down and read them all.

 

We have liftoff!

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 2:19 pm » 2 Comments

The space shuttle Discovery had a successful launch this morning. BRAVO! Update: See video of the launch here (wink: John Cole)

 

Knoll apologizes for upsetting fallen marine’s family

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 10:40 am » 2 Comments

It was a very Durbin-esque apology. Essentially: I apologize if you were offended, but I’m not sorry for what I said. In fact, if you read this piece that discusses the ‘apology’ no where does she actually apologize for expressing her views at the funeral: Knoll said that Sgt. Goodrich’s military service “was beyond the [...]

 

CNN trumpets Iraq Body Count numbers-UPDATE

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 10:08 am » 2 Comments

Last week, Stephen Spruiell at NRO’s Media Blog noted how CNN reported alleged casualty numbers from the notoriously left wing Iraq Body Count website and treated them as credible numbers. In my blog entry about the CNN piece, I noted the following: They are referred to as “the group” – not an “anti-war group” (7/26/05 [...]

 

A powerhouse in the blogosphere

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 8:59 am » Comments Off

Captain Ed passes the 10 millionth visitor mark on his blog. I think he’s served more people than McDonald’s – and a daily dose of Captain Ed’s wisdom is much better for you than chicken McNuggets Make sure you stop by his blog today and congratulate him! Side note: to all new ST visitors, please [...]

 

OBL and the spiked cocaine plot

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 7:14 am » 7 Comments

The NY Post is reporting this morning that a year after 9-11, OBL attempted to buy massive amounts of cocaine, spike it with poison, and sell it in hopes of killing a massive amount of Americans: The evil plot failed when the Colombian drug lords bin Laden approached decided it would be bad for their [...]

 

Meet Larry Johnson

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2005 at 7:07 am » Comments Off

Gary Schmitt at The Weekly Standard gives us an inside look at the pre-9/11 mindset of the liberal media’s latest darling and wonders why he was allowed to rise to senior levels within the intelligence community: ON SATURDAY, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson gave the Democratic party’s weekly radio address and excoriated President Bush for [...]