Monthly Archives: June 2006 «

 

Reverend Dean wants your vote!

Posted by: ST on June 28, 2006 at 10:24 pm » 8 Comments

If you’re a person of faith, Reverend Howard “yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh” Dean is a’courtin’ your vote: (CNSNews.com) – America is about to revisit one of the most turbulent decades in its history, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told a religious conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. “We’re about to enter the ’60s again,” Dean said, but [...]

 

Dictator-supporting, race-baiting Harry Belafonte wins BET ‘humanitarian’ award

Posted by: ST on June 28, 2006 at 6:57 pm » 1 Comment

Open this link only if you haven’t eaten dinner yet. Click here, here, and here for a refresher on Belafonte’s (and Danny Glover’s, pictured with him in the Yahoo link) “humanitarian” activities. I think the moonbatitarian award would have been much more appropriate. Hat tip: Jonah Goldberg at NRO’s The Corner blog

 

AP gives Gore free plug for his ‘global warming’ documentary

Posted by: ST on June 28, 2006 at 6:37 pm » 9 Comments

Dafydd at Big Lizards has caught the Associated Press puffing up Al Gore’s supposed-to-shock-you-mentary “An Inconvenient Truth” – the AP requested opinions from 100 top scientists in the country, and only received 19 responses in turn. But 19 positive responses for Gore’s ‘documentary’ from the scientists who responded were apparently enough for the AP to [...]

 

Fallout from Swift story continues: ‘Human rights’ group lodges formal complaints with 32 countries

Posted by: ST on June 28, 2006 at 6:24 pm » 1 Comment

In light of the NYT’s “Swift Boating” of the Swift story comes this news: BRUSSELS, June 27 — A human rights group in London said today that it had lodged formal complaints in 32 countries against the Brussels-based banking consortium known as Swift, contending that it violated European and Asian data protection rules by providing [...]

 

Richard Cohen: The Miami 7 arrests were over-hyped

Posted by: ST on June 28, 2006 at 2:49 pm » 4 Comments

I blogged on Sunday about some of the strange reactions coming out of the MSM and the left regarding the arrest of the Miami 7- I noted how the ‘skeptics’ of the arrests were implying, if not outright saying that the arrests weren’t that big a deal, that we should give them the benefit of [...]

 

Berkeley City Council tonight to vote on Nov. ballot measure calling for Bush impeachment

Posted by: ST on June 28, 2006 at 8:58 am » 8 Comments

Via the SF Chronicle: The famously liberal city of Berkeley is expected to become the first in the nation to put forth a ballot measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The City Council will decide tonight whether to put the measure on the Nov. 7 ballot, at a [...]

 

Palestinian terrorists feel the pressure from Israel

Posted by: ST on June 27, 2006 at 10:35 pm » 9 Comments

Via AP: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli tanks and troops entered southern Gaza and planes attacked three bridges and knocked out electricity to the coastal strip early Wednesday, stepping up the pressure on Palestinian militants holding captive a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. The ground troops and tanks began taking up positions in two locations east [...]

 

Interview with Mort Kondracke

Posted by: ST on June 27, 2006 at 8:52 pm » 1 Comment

If you’ve watched Special Report with Brit Hume on FoxNews, seen him with Fred Barnes on Fox’s Beltway Boys, or read him at Roll Call, you know who Mort Kondracke is I’m a big fan who always enjoys listening to his takes on politics, and so is blogger Real Ugly American, who recently interviewed Mort. [...]

 

Flag burning amendment fails by one vote

Posted by: ST on June 27, 2006 at 8:15 pm » 11 Comments

It was close: WASHINGTON – A constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration died in a Senate cliffhanger Tuesday, a single vote short of the support needed to send it to the states for ratification a week before Independence Day. The 66-34 tally in favor of the amendment was one less than the two-thirds required. The [...]

 

I can’t imagine why Rush would have wanted to keep a Viagra prescription out of the public eye

Posted by: ST on June 27, 2006 at 3:33 pm » 17 Comments

Can you figure it out? I’m at a loss to explain … Seriously, here’s how he handled the big (no pun intended) story on today’s show (audio here). James Joyner has posted the plea agreement documents. Question that needs to be answered: is it ok for doctors to issue prescriptions in their name, rather than [...]