Daily Archives: May 29th, 2006 «

 

Monday open thread

Posted by: ST on May 29, 2006 at 4:13 pm » 11 Comments

Here ya go

 

Hurricanes win game 5 in OT

Posted by: ST on May 29, 2006 at 4:10 pm » 3 Comments

They didn’t look great early on, but the Hurricanes eventually got it together enough to win game five 4-3 against the Buffalo Sabres. Game 6 will be played tomorrow night in Buffalo – game time is 7:30 pm ET (I got the game time on last night’s game wrong … I swear OLN was advertising [...]

 

BBC’s anti-Iraq war bias

Posted by: ST on May 29, 2006 at 3:50 pm » 2 Comments

Remember back in 2003 how the British Navy’s flagship switched the TVs onboard from BBC News to Sky News because of complaints about the BBC’s war coverage, which many said contained a distinct pro-Iraqi bias? The BBC is at it again, this time by trumping up desertion numbers in the British military. First, the story: [...]

 

More strange bedfellows in the Jefferson case

Posted by: ST on May 29, 2006 at 3:00 pm » 6 Comments

First, it was House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issuing a joint statement condeming and calling “unconstitutional” the FBI’s seizure of documents from Rep. William Jefferson’s (D-LA) Congressional office in Washington, DC. Now, we’ve got Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Assistant Senate Minority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill) [...]