Daily Archives: June 7th, 2006 «

 

What he said

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 11:47 pm » 139 Comments

(Bumping this post to the top – scroll down for updates and more thoughts) Rick Moran blogs about the latest controversy involving comments Ann Coulter made in a recent interview with the Today Show’s Matt Lauer. First, the comments: LAUER: On the 9-11 widows, an in particular a group that had been critical of the [...]

 

House approves Patriot Act, Senate panel rejects broad NSA inquiry

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 10:39 pm » 10 Comments

.!. Now it’s just about on the way to W to sign: WASHINGTON – Congress was poised to send President Bush a renewal of the Patriot Act Tuesday night after months of bitter fighting, authorizing law enforcement to keep its anti-terror tools but with some new curbs on government prying. A final House vote and [...]

 

House conservatives fight to regain fiscal responsibility

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 2:14 pm » 27 Comments

.!. Encouraging news via the NY Times: WASHINGTON, March 6 — With Congress heading into a politically perilous budget season, influential House conservatives plan this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years, balance the budget and drastically shrink three cabinet agencies. The legislation, part [...]

 

How Islamofascists use our own media against us

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 12:30 pm » 7 Comments

J.R. Dunn writes today in the American Thinker about the speculation going on regarding Haditha, with an emphasis on how the Islamofascist thugs use the media to turn Americans against the war – especially note the third paragraph below : The war in Iraq is a low-level insurrection slowly – all too slowly – grinding [...]

 

Marriage amendment stalls in the Senate

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 11:11 am » 7 Comments

Just barely. Can we now get back to more pressing issues now, please? Prior: Bush panders to the base, and all of a sudden – it’s wrong! MA birth certificates: the slippery slope connection SF Mayor Gavin Newsom – Right Or Wrong?

 

Wednesday open thread

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 10:30 am » 18 Comments

Here ya go …

 

Deal in the works for McKinney?

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 10:27 am » 2 Comments

Drudge is reporting: Federal prosecutors investigating the confrontation between Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and a Capitol police officer have been talking privately with McKinney’s office in hopes of resolving the case without the spectacle of an indictment and trial, the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION reports on Wednesday. Prosecutors for several weeks have been carrying on [...]

 

Google admits compromsing its ‘principles’ with Chinese censorship agreement

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 9:20 am » Comments Off

… and co-founder Sergey Brin is hinting around that they may change course: WASHINGTON – Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course. Meeting with reporters near [...]

 

Nagin watch

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 9:01 am » 5 Comments

.!. It looks like Mayor Ray “chocolate New Orleans” Nagin, with a little help from some Houston NAACP folks and other local black community ‘leaders’, is fanning the racial flames regarding New Orleans’ upcoming April 22nd election: New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin on Saturday asked black community leaders here in Houston to help evacuees [...]

 

California primary

Posted by: ST on June 7, 2006 at 12:53 am » 10 Comments

My friend Cal over at California Conservative is blogging extensively (more here from Gary Gross) about Tuesday’s primary in California. Make sure to check in there for the latest news and info on the results. I know there were at least two propositions on the table, and the person who will be running against Ahhhhnold [...]