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Sorry I didn’t create the Tuesday open thread sooner – been one of those days! Here you go
He’s claiming it’s all political, of course. Via the AP: Ward Churchill, the professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns,” should be fired because of “repeated and deliberate” infractions of scholarship rules, a University of Colorado committee said today. The recommendation, which came on a 6-3 vote, now goes to [...]
Investor’s Business Daily has some encouraging news on the deficit front: Aided by surging tax receipts, President Bush may make good on his pledge to cut the deficit in half in 2006 — three years early. Tax revenues are running $176 billion, or 12.9%, over last year, the Treasury Department said Monday. The Congressional Budget [...]
Via CNN: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, who presided over the city’s economic renaissance of the 1990s, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison and fined more than $6,000 for racketeering and tax evasion. U.S. District Judge Richard Story praised Campbell, 53, for two decades of public service but said [...]
Good news: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. district court judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a California atheist against the U.S. government for its use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on its coins and currency. Michael Newdow, the Sacramento, California lawyer and doctor who had previously launched a court challenge [...]
First, his statement on today’s news that Fitzgerald will not be indicting Karl Rove (emphasis added): DNC Chair Howard Dean on NBC’s ‘TODAY’: ‘If Karl Rove had been indicted it would have been for perjury. That does not excuse his real sin which is leaking the name of an intelligence operative during the time of [...]
Michelle Malkin has the details. Sick.e.ning. Contact the Arizona Republic to let them know how you feel about that cartoon. This cartoon is well worth mentioning again. (Thanks again to ST reader Fat Tone) Prior: First hand account from Sgt. who led Marines in Haditha TIME issues correction on Haditha story Media coverage of Haditha: [...]
Story here. Wonder how long before we hear the cries of “photo op!!!!!!!” from the usual characters …? In the meantime, things are about to get a lot tougher for the ‘insurgency’ in Baghdad: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s new prime minister promised Tuesday to show “no mercy” to terrorists and said before President Bush arrived [...]
Via the NYT: WASHINGTON, June 13 — The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case on Monday advised Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, that he would not be charged with any wrongdoing, effectively ending the nearly three-year criminal investigation that had at times focused intensely on Mr. Rove. The decision by the prosecutor, Patrick [...]