Daily Archives: June 26th, 2006 «

 

As if we needed anything ELSE to slow it down

Posted by: ST on June 26, 2006 at 10:34 pm » 6 Comments

… here’s the understatement headline of the day! Flooding slows wheels of U.S. government *chuckles*

 

Monday evening quick links

Posted by: ST on June 26, 2006 at 8:41 pm » 7 Comments

Some links for your perusal: Patrick Hynes of Ankle Biting Pundits fame has a book coming out next week titled In Defense of the Religious Right. I’m going to be taking a sneak peek at it later this week, and I’ll let you know what I think about it (although I know it’ll be good!). [...]

 

I love this guy!

Posted by: ST on June 26, 2006 at 6:53 pm » 2 Comments

Just caught Expose The Left’s video of Tony Snow answering a pressie’s question on the President’s reaction to the NYT’s publishing of the story on financial transaction monitoring, a program the gov’t uses to track terrorists. Check out the question and Tony’s response: Q We’re told the Vice President is going to make similar comments [...]

 

How the media spins Haditha

Posted by: ST on June 26, 2006 at 6:43 pm » 4 Comments

(Scroll down for updates) W. Thomas Smith, Jr. has an excellent piece up on how the media is spinning Haditha – he was interviewed by a reporter from ABC News, so his experience is first hand: So I receive a phone call from a reporter at ABC News. They are working on a story about [...]

 

Nanny state to kick in full throttle in the UK?

Posted by: ST on June 26, 2006 at 4:23 pm » 3 Comments

Via the UK Daily Mail: State to interfere in childrens’ home lives The home life of every child in the country is to be recorded on a national database in the ultimate intrusion of the nanny state, it has emerged. Computer records holding details of school performance, diet and even whether their parents provide a [...]

 

Monday and Tuesday open thread

Posted by: ST on June 26, 2006 at 1:32 pm » 16 Comments

Have at it, ya’ll

 

Prez slams leak of financial transaction monitoring story

Posted by: ST on June 26, 2006 at 12:31 pm » 49 Comments

Go get ‘em, tiger: WASHINGTON – President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a program to secretly monitor the financial transactions of suspected terrorists. “The disclosure of this program is disgraceful,” he said. “For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States [...]

 

Hoekstra and Santorum to intelligence community: Declassify more WMD-related documents, and quit downplaying them

Posted by: ST on June 26, 2006 at 8:47 am » 1 Comment

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) have an opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal asking the intelligence community why they are downplaying last week’s announcement by Hoekstra and Santorum that 500 weapons munitions containing degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent which, even in their condition, remain hazardous and lethal if fallen [...]