Daily Archives: November 27th, 2006 «

 

Kerry comes in last place in political likability poll

Posted by: ST on November 27, 2006 at 10:36 pm » 12 Comments

Via Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Sen. John Kerry, mulling a second bid for the U.S. presidency, finished dead last in a poll released on Monday on the likability of 20 top American political figures. Among those placing ahead of Kerry were about a dozen potential 2008 White House rivals, including Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham [...]

 

Supremes to NYTimes: Gov’t should be allowed to review your phone records

Posted by: ST on November 27, 2006 at 9:32 pm » 5 Comments

A victory for national security: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the U.S. government to review the phone records of two New York Times reporters as part of an effort to discover who leaked information about a terrorism-funding probe involving Islamic charities. The justices rejected a request from the newspaper to put [...]

 

All’s back to normal at the Lincoln Memorial

Posted by: ST on November 27, 2006 at 4:49 pm » 1 Comment

It had been closed earlier due to reports of suspicious bottles being found with anthrax notes attached in a restroom, but it’s open again: Authorities briefly closed the Lincoln Memorial on Monday after finding suspicious bottles in a restroom and a note reading “Do you know what anthrax is?” and “Do you know what a [...]

 

MSM has been relying on questionable Iraq sources for information regarding Shia/Sunni violence

Posted by: ST on November 27, 2006 at 3:22 pm » 11 Comments

Curt at Flopping Aces has done an outstanding job on getting to the bottom of some recent questionable reporting coming from the Associated Press on a story that alleged that 6 Sunni civilians had been burned alive last week during a wave of sectarian violence. I linked up to his original post on the issue [...]

 

So … like, what happened?

Posted by: ST on November 27, 2006 at 10:23 am » 11 Comments

Neil Johnson at the Tampa Tribune writes this morning about how predictions for this year’s hurricane season were wildly off the mark. So what happened? I’m sure the world’s foremost expert on global warming will explain it all to us shortly …