Daily Archives: September 29th, 2006 «

 

Stepping away (Weekend open thread)

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2006 at 8:11 pm » 23 Comments

There are some things going on in the blogosphere right now (check out Wonkette, HotAir, and Malkin’s for more) that I don’t want to be a part of, even as a blogger standing on the sidelines watching it all play out. So I am stepping away from blogging for the next couple of days until [...]

 

REMINDER: Carolina FreedomNet 2006

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2006 at 4:50 pm » 6 Comments

Here are the details of the upcoming NC conservative blogger conference I posted about a several weeks ago. It’s on Saturday October 7th at the Sheraton Greensboro (NC) – Koury Convention Center from 8-2. Yours truly will be there and will also on one of the panels. Will be my first blog conference and obviously [...]

 

US Rep. Mark Foley: Good riddance

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2006 at 3:25 pm » 26 Comments

Here’s the scoop on US Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-FL) decision to step down from the House over rumors he was soliciting sex from an underage (16 y/o) male page. I read the rumors about the intial charges earlier at RawStory, and like Allah, didn’t want to post about them until they could be substantiated. Looks [...]

 

Senator Pat Leahy: a historical retrospective

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2006 at 10:10 am » 3 Comments

Sort of Update: In other Congressional news – this time, the not so funny kind – Rep. Jack Murtha won’t be happy to see this. (Hat tip: Leo Pusateri at B4B) Prior: Senator Pat Leahy: We’ll become just like the Taliban, Saddam’s Iraq if detainee bill passes (SENATE VOTE: Yeas 65, Nays 34)

 

Confronting global warming hysteria: Sen. James Inhofe takes on CNN and the rest of the MSM

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2006 at 9:04 am » 91 Comments

We’ve all read about the hysteria surrounding claims of “global warming”, most noteably coming from Al “Inconvenient Truth” Gore (read about his latest global warming rant here). Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is a well-known critic of the theory of global warming and its alarmists, and made a speech on Monday on the Senate floor to [...]