Daily Archives: July 3rd, 2006 «

 

9th Circus overturned by Supremes 83% in 2005-2006

Posted by: ST on July 3, 2006 at 9:06 pm » 4 Comments

15 of 18 cases decided by California’s 9th Circus Court of Appeals were reversed by the US Supreme Court in the 2005-06 term. How Appealing has the details. Take a look at the ST 9th Circus archives to read about prior cases the 9th Circus have decided that leave you wondering what they were smoking. [...]

 

If the NYTimes had been around in 1775 …

Posted by: ST on July 3, 2006 at 8:27 pm » 1 Comment

… these headlines are what you would have been reading. Sad – but true. On a related note, make sure to check out Thomas Sowell’s piece on the NYT’s revelation of how the US gov’t has gone about tracking financial transactions of suspected terrorists. He is right on, as always. Related: AJ Strata points to [...]

 

Subtility in media bias

Posted by: ST on July 3, 2006 at 8:12 pm » 1 Comment

Every once in a while a news article comes along that contains a liberal bias in it so subtle that you’d miss it if you weren’t reading it carefully. Today’s example comes from Charles J. Hanley, writing for the Associated Press. See if you can spot the liberal media bias below: Some Republican lawmakers called [...]

 

Is there a consensus amongst scientists on global warming?

Posted by: ST on July 3, 2006 at 2:36 pm » 9 Comments

In response to Al Gore’s assertion while promoting his crockumentary that there is a consensus amongst scientists on the issue of global warming, Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, responds emphatically: no, there isn’t: According to Al Gore’s new film “An Inconvenient Truth,” we’re in for “a planetary emergency”: melting [...]

 

Mon/Tues open thread

Posted by: ST on July 3, 2006 at 12:19 pm » Comments Off

Happy Monday, ya’ll Update: Here’s my first post of the day at RWN.

 

A message to banned posters

Posted by: ST on July 3, 2006 at 12:16 pm » Comments Off

For those of you banned commenters who think your comments are appearing on the blog and then being deleted immediately, you’re half right. The message only appears to YOU. No one else gets the pleasure of seeing your nasty, inane, asinine comments outside of yourself. The comment appears quickly to you as though it has [...]

 

Crack found in Space Shuttle – will launch happen tomorrow?

Posted by: ST on July 3, 2006 at 11:34 am » 6 Comments

Spaceflight Now has all the latest news. As it stands now, the launch, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is scheduled for tomorrow at 2:38 pm EDT. Prior: 20 year anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy We have liftoff! (Shuttle Discovery 7/26/05)

 

GOP Senators to act on USSC ruling with legislation addressing Gitmo detainees

Posted by: ST on July 3, 2006 at 11:17 am » 1 Comment

Via the NYTimes: Republican leaders, also making the rounds of the Sunday talk shows, called for a more limited response. They said Congress should pass legislation in a matter of months to comply with the court and give the president explicit authority to put detainees at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on trial [...]