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McKinney won’t be charged

Posted by: ST on June 16, 2006 at 8:04 pm » 15 Comments

She gets away with it. Via AP: WASHINGTON (AP) – A grand jury declined to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney on Friday in connection with a confrontation in which she admitted hitting a police officer who tried to stop her from entering a House office building. The grand jury had been considering the case since shortly [...]

 

Bad week for Democrats

Posted by: ST on June 16, 2006 at 3:31 pm » 8 Comments

Michael Barone, writing in today’s WSJ, sums up today’s left nicely while discussing the news from the past week that has helped Republicans, and hurt Democrats who view everything through the prism of Vietnam and Watergate: It has been a tough 10 days for those who see current events through the prisms of Vietnam and [...]

 

House vote on setting arbitrary date for pulling out of Iraq: 256 vote against, 153 vote for

Posted by: ST on June 16, 2006 at 12:00 pm » 4 Comments

Via AP: The House on Friday handily rejected a timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq, culminating a fiercely partisan debate between Republicans and Democrats feeling the public’s apprehension about war and the onrushing midterm campaign season. In a 256-153 vote, the GOP-led House approved a nonbinding resolution that praises U.S. troops, labels the [...]

 

Media double standard on over the top rhetoric

Posted by: ST on June 16, 2006 at 10:12 am » 19 Comments

Of course we all remember the howls of outrage from the mediots over Ann Coulter’s comments about the “Jersey Girls” – but what I’m wondering is: where’s the outrage over this (emphasis added in bold)? Sacrificing Our Troops on the Altar of Republican Politics by Larry C Johnson Leave it to the Porcine Draft Dodger–Karl [...]