Daily Archives: July 26th, 2006 «

 

Howard Dean: The gift that keeps on givin’

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2006 at 9:22 pm » 19 Comments

Lorie Byrd at Wizbang has the latest news on silly statements and blatant hypocrisies coming out of the mouth of DNC Chair Howie Dean. Somethin’s awfully fishy about this guy … More: Check out Florida Masochist’s take on the Dr. of Disology’s latest stunts. Prior: Reverend Dean wants your vote! Howard Dean pronounces Rove guilty [...]

 

Word to the wise

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2006 at 2:58 pm » 9 Comments

Don’t claim to be a Marine … unless you really are one. As this story notes, one guy had to find that out the hard way: William Horvath of Whitefish had claimed to have served his country as a Marine, but never did. It’s the kind of offense that could easily be glossed over, but [...]

 

Andrea Yates: Not guilty by reason of insanity

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2006 at 2:15 pm » 8 Comments

Via Fox: HOUSTON — A jury on Wednesday found Houston mom Andrea Yates not guilty of murdering her five kids by reason of insanity. The decision comes after the jury deliberated for three days in Yates’ retrial to determine whether she was legally insane when she drowned her five kids in the family home’s bathtub. [...]

 

Challenging liberal myths that are commonly assumed to be fact

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2006 at 1:48 pm » 16 Comments

Australia’s Neil Brown, described in the following opinion piece as a ‘Melbourne QC and former federal minister and deputy leader of the Liberal Party’ in the land down under, takes a look at two recent studies that, among other things, examined the racial attitudes of the participants. The results, as Brown correctly asserts, shatter the [...]

 

Wed/Thur open thread

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2006 at 11:35 am » 8 Comments

For your commenting pleasure …

 

The Stanley Cup makes a visit to Camp Lejune

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2006 at 10:16 am » 1 Comment

Ok, it didn’t exactly grow legs and walk to Camp Lejune – it was taken there by Hurricanes defenseman Glen Wesley. This is an awesome story: The Stanley Cup flew into Raleigh, North Carolina just before 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 13, ready to spend a couple of days with Hurricanes’ defenseman Glen Wesley. Wesley, [...]

 

J-Pod on fighting modern day wars

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2006 at 9:35 am » 5 Comments

John Podhoretz, opining in today’s NY Post, wonders if we’re “too nice” to win wars anymore. He writes: July 25, 2006 — WHAT if liberal democracies have now evolved to a point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others that dwarfs any really [...]

 

Concert ticket sales for the Dixie Chicks

Posted by: ST on July 26, 2006 at 8:35 am » 5 Comments

Amy Proctor recaps how sales for the “what’s the big deal about patriotism” Dixie Chicks have been going here in the US and Canada. They aren’t playing to big crowds here like they used to, and the fans they are drawing now are a mixture of genuine country music fans – and hate-Bush fanatics. On [...]