Daily Archives: January 28th, 2006 «

 

Hamas leader won’t change attitude towards Israel

Posted by: ST on January 28, 2006 at 11:15 pm » 24 Comments

Not at all surprising: JERUSALEM, Jan. 28 — The exiled political head of the radical Islamic group Hamas said Saturday in Damascus, Syria, that the group would adopt “a very realistic approach” toward governing the Palestinian Authority and would work with the Fatah president, Mahmoud Abbas, on an acceptable political program. But the leader, Khaled [...]

 

Rep. J.D. Hayworth: Immigrants need to embrace U.S. culture

Posted by: ST on January 28, 2006 at 10:48 pm » 86 Comments

Everytime I’ve seen Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ-5th district) interviewed many times in the past on Fox News and have been extremely impressed with his go-get-’em-tell-it-like-it-is style of talking. A fine example of that can be found here in an opinion piece he wrote for the Arizona Republic newspaper on muliculturalism and how we’ve gotten away [...]

 

Saturday quick links

Posted by: ST on January 28, 2006 at 9:58 am » Comments Off

I’m getting ready to head out to do some much needed shopping for things I need for the townhome, but wanted to post these links of interest for your perusal: Cassandra at Villainous Company (she’s baaaaaack!) has a must-read post up about civility (or shall we say lack thereof?) in the blogosphere and how we [...]

 

About that NYT/CBS poll

Posted by: ST on January 28, 2006 at 9:23 am » 15 Comments

… specifically, the one I blogged about earlier this week where 53% of those polled answered that they were ok with warrantless wiretaps when used to fight terrorism: Did you know that the poll included an oversampling of Dems? I didn’t catch that when I initially blogged about the poll, but Captain Ed did. So [...]

 

20 year anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy

Posted by: ST on January 28, 2006 at 8:57 am » 3 Comments

Jim at bRight and Early has posted a moving tribute that includes President Reagan’s eulogy to the 7 astronauts who were killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion 20 years ago on January 28th, 1986. I was in junior high school at the time and remember hearing about it during lunch recess. That day was [...]

 

Hillary to join Kerry and Kennedy in support of Alito filibuster

Posted by: ST on January 28, 2006 at 8:22 am » 39 Comments

Breaking with top Democrats, Senator Hillary Clinton has announced that she will join Sens. Kerry and Kennedy in supporting a filibuster for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Via Newsday: WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday announced she’ll join potential 2008 presidential rival John Kerry in voting to filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Samuel [...]