Daily Archives: April 5th, 2006 «

 

Pappy Boyington to be honored by UW afterall :)

Posted by: ST on April 5, 2006 at 10:12 pm » 14 Comments

Karl at Leaning Straight Up has the details. Hooray! Updated to add link (just found it on Google News): After a sometimes-heated debate and an unusual roll call vote, the University of Washington student government Tuesday night backed the creation of a campus memorial to honor former students who have received the Medal of Honor. [...]

 

Cultural defense rejected again in Australia

Posted by: ST on April 5, 2006 at 12:48 pm » 5 Comments

This time by the New South Wales Supreme Court: A New South Wales Supreme Court judge has rejected a claim by a Sydney gang-rapist that his strict Pakistani upbringing meant he did not know his actions were wrong. Justice Peter Hidden has today sentenced two Sydney brothers, who can only be known as MSK and [...]

 

Cindy Sheehan to speak at a high school in San Francisco

Posted by: ST on April 5, 2006 at 11:18 am » 18 Comments

… on Friday the 7th: SAN FRANCISCO – Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is scheduled to speak to students at San Francisco’s Lowell High School this Friday — to the chagrin of at least one parent. Sheehan is scheduled to speak for approximately 45 minutes at an optional morning assembly [...]

 

Thomas Sowell’s latest column

Posted by: ST on April 5, 2006 at 10:24 am » 4 Comments

…. it’s up and it’s good (as always). He asks: Are facts obsolete? Snippet: What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey put it this way: “Demagoguery beats data.” People who urge us to rely on the United Nations, instead [...]

 

Deputy DHS Press Secretary arrested in child porn sting

Posted by: ST on April 5, 2006 at 9:08 am » 10 Comments

Via AP: MIAMI – A deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was charged with using a computer to seduce a child after authorities said he struck up sexual conversations with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl. Brian J. Doyle, 55, the fourth-ranking official in the department’s public affairs office, [...]