Daily Archives: September 5th, 2006 «

 

Quickies

Posted by: ST on September 5, 2006 at 11:59 pm » 11 Comments

Here are a few quick stories/links I’ve been remiss in posting about today – trying to get back into the blogger groove after some light blogging over the holiday weekend: – The President gave a war on terror speech today on the close-to five year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. Here’s the transcript. He also [...]

 

Let it Snow, let it Snow, let it Snow

Posted by: ST on September 5, 2006 at 11:08 pm » 14 Comments

WH Press Sec. and all around cool guy Tony Snow once again took care of petulant reporters at a WH press gaggle, this time with NBC’s David Gregory. Here’s a transcript of Snow’s exchange with Gregory: Q Okay. There’s so much emphasis by the President on his resolve and on the consequences of failure, which [...]

 

Ted Stevens lifts his secret hold on federal budget open database bill, but what about other Senator(s)?

Posted by: ST on September 5, 2006 at 4:54 pm » Comments Off

Find out the latest at the Palm Beach Post blog: Another Democratic senator appears to have placed a “secret hold” on legislation that would pry open the murky world of federal contracting to public scrutiny. That’s the word that Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn received Tuesday from the Republican cloakroom, the place that tracks who [...]

 

Immigration falls off the map for the GOP

Posted by: ST on September 5, 2006 at 4:09 pm » 13 Comments

This is nice. Not. Well ok, I have a mixed view on it. On one hand, I can appreciate not wanting to hurry through legislation that has not been well-thought out before the elections. At least 2007 will not be an election year where a lot of politicians on both sides of the aisle are [...]

 

Tuesday open thread

Posted by: ST on September 5, 2006 at 3:00 pm » 19 Comments

Ya’ll are very quiet today …

 

New liberal spin on Republicans and terrorism

Posted by: ST on September 5, 2006 at 12:25 pm » 3 Comments

Brian at Iowa Voice has caught perhaps what will be the latest in a string of deceptive talking points from Democrats on how Republicans supposedly ‘rejected’ Bill Clinton’s attempts at fighting terrorism back in the mid to late 90s. In related news, House and Senate Dems are ‘united’ now in asking for the President to [...]

 

RIP, Steve Irwin

Posted by: ST on September 5, 2006 at 8:46 am » 6 Comments

This has been discussed in yesterday’s open thread a little but I wanted to give it its own thread. Mr. Irwin died too young, but he did so doing what he loved to do. Here’s a piece that describes Irwin’s love for wildlife – anyone who has watched any of his shows knows his love [...]