Hurricanes win game 5 in OT
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.
BBC’s anti-Iraq war bias
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?
More strange bedfellows in the Jefferson case
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) taking more measured approaches to the ‘controversy’ – with Frist concluding that after Constitutional research as well as consulting with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that the FBI ‘acted appropriately’ in the search on Rep. Jefferson’s office and Durbin noting that this incident is not without precedent:
Remember the fallen
(Monday Update: Michelle Malkin has a link roundup of other Memorial Day tributes around the blogosphere. Check the trackbacks here for other tributes.)
Weekend open thread
Got some shopping to do, and a much-anticipated appointment at the salon this afternoon, so I’ll be out for most of the day – and at the same time doing my best to avoid race weekend traffic at Lowe’s Motor Speedway (ugh).
Too short for prison?
Several readers have sent me links to this bizarre story about a judge in Lincoln, Nebraska who sentenced a 5’1 man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a child to probation, rather than serving hard time in prison – because he was “too short” to “survive” a “state prison”: