Daily Archives: April 11th, 2006 «

 

Iran once again engages in saber rattling

Posted by: ST on April 11, 2006 at 3:18 pm » 10 Comments

From the AP: Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time, a landmark in its quest to develop nuclear fuel, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday. He insisted, however, that his country does not aim to develop nuclear weapons. In a nationally televised speech, Ahmadinejad called on the West “not to cause an everlasting [...]

 

MSNBC Hardball correspondent David Shuster caught in multiple reporting errors

Posted by: ST on April 11, 2006 at 1:13 pm » 9 Comments

… regarding le affaire de Plame. I’ve seen bad reporting in my time, but this case is one of the worst I’ve seen where multiple instances in the same report are involved. Nathan Goulding at National Review’s “Media Blog” reports on three errors here, and Stephen Spruiell points to blogger Seixon’s catching another error in [...]

 

US economy is producing better jobs

Posted by: ST on April 11, 2006 at 11:15 am » 8 Comments

The Christian Science Monitor reports some good news: The US economy isn’t just producing jobs these days, it’s also producing good jobs. Alongside the ads for jobs handling a cash register or a spatula are these new opportunities: • In St. Louis, AFB International is enlisting both technicians, paid $30,000 to $40,000, and PhD scientists, [...]

 

Real stories from the frontlines

Posted by: ST on April 11, 2006 at 10:37 am » 1 Comment

Michael Yon has set up another section to his site that will showcase stories written troops currently serving in Iraq. Make sure to bookmark it – here’s the first story posted.

 

Chris Hitchens on the Iraq/Niger/uranium issue

Posted by: ST on April 11, 2006 at 9:49 am » 6 Comments

Hitch breaks all the details down regarding the claims that Iraq sought uranium from Niger: In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq’s senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie. After the Kuwait war in 1991, when Rolf Ekeus arrived in Baghdad to begin [...]

 

Are the Duke lacrosse players innocent?

Posted by: ST on April 11, 2006 at 12:18 am » 21 Comments

The Associated Press is reporting: DURHAM, N.C. — DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a stripper, attorneys for the athletes said Monday. Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police and prosecutors a few hours earlier, the attorneys said [...]