Daily Archives: January 5th, 2006 «

 

Around the blogosphere

Posted by: ST on January 5, 2006 at 4:04 pm » 8 Comments

Taking a stroll around the blogosphere I offer up the following posts from some of my favorite bloggers for your perusal: Patterico takes on a LA Times columnist who compared him to Stalin. Moral of the story: Don’t mess with Patterico Marines are saying CNN is despicable- read about it at Blackfive Tom Maguire is [...]

 

House Dems and Pelosi: trouble in paradise?

Posted by: ST on January 5, 2006 at 11:44 am » 24 Comments

My latest post at Blogs for Bush discusses Robert Novak’s opinion piece from today where he writes that some Democrats in the House are not happy at all with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s leadership skills. Looks like there is indeed trouble in Dem paradise. Related Toldjah So posts: Pelosi hails Democrats’ ‘diverse’ Iraq stances [...]

 

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers severe stroke

Posted by: ST on January 5, 2006 at 10:02 am » 25 Comments

Via Reuters: JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, deeply sedated and on a respirator, clung to life on Thursday after a severe stroke that is likely to create a huge vacuum in Israeli politics and the Middle East peace process. Surgeons at Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital said they stemmed the bleeding in the 77-year-old leader’s [...]

 

NYTimes blames Bush for miner tragedy

Posted by: ST on January 5, 2006 at 9:41 am » 12 Comments

In an editorial piece today that should surprise no one, the New York Times chose to play the blame game with the horrible miner tragedy in West Virginia where 12 of 13 miners were killed in a coal mine blast accident. The NYT: Political figures from both parties have long defended and profited from ties [...]

 

The Carl Levin-Jack Abramoff connection

Posted by: ST on January 5, 2006 at 9:18 am » 23 Comments

If disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff starts singing, and it’s believed that he will, many likely will go down with him and Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) could be one of them. The press has focused extensively on Rep. Tom DeLay’s relationship with Abramoff, but you haven’t seen the same level of coverage for the prominent Democrats [...]

 

Judge in child rape case no longer believes in punishment

Posted by: ST on January 5, 2006 at 8:50 am » 17 Comments

Can you believe this guy? There was outrage Wednesday when a Vermont judge handed out a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a little girl many,many times over a four-year span starting when she was seven. The judge said he no longer believes in punishment and is more concerned about rehabilitation. Prosecutors argued [...]