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Idiotarian and Anti-Idiotarian of the year

Posted by: ST on December 29, 2006 at 11:45 am » 5 Comments

Little Green Footballs is holding its annual Idiotarian and Anti-Idiotarian of the year contests. Here’s the link for the Idiotarian of the year voting. The nominees are: Kofi Annan Hugo Chavez John F. Kerry Mainstream Media John Murtha Keith Olbermann 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Tough to pick just one, isn’t it? Here’s the link to the [...]

 

Cindy Sheehan arrested – once again

Posted by: ST on December 29, 2006 at 10:43 am » 1 Comment

Along with four other protesters. Via AP: (AP) CRAWFORD, Texas Peace activist Cindy Sheehan and four other protesters were arrested Thursday for blocking a road near President Bush’s ranch, delaying the arrival of Vice President Dick Cheney’s motorcade, authorities said. Sheehan and the others lay or sat in the road for about 20 minutes and [...]

 

North Carolina state bar files ethics complaint against Durham DA Mike Nifong

Posted by: ST on December 28, 2006 at 6:02 pm » 21 Comments

The AP has the story: The North Carolina bar filed an ethics complaint Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, accusing him of breaking four rules of professional conduct when speaking to the reporters about the sensational case. The punishment for ethics violations can range from admonishment to disbarment. Among the rules District [...]

 

Big gov’t Johnny announces plans to run for prez

Posted by: ST on December 28, 2006 at 5:23 pm » 27 Comments

The theme? Eliminating poverty via big government programs. Via the Wall Street Journal: After the 2004 election, Mr. Edwards became director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has solicited policy ideas for fighting poverty. He previewed his emerging antipoverty program most comprehensively [...]

 

Creating absolute moral authority: Mediots take the time to point out that Gerald Ford opposed the Iraq war

Posted by: ST on December 28, 2006 at 3:55 pm » 8 Comments

Former president Gerald Ford has not even been buried yet and already the media can’t resist glomming on to Bob Woodward’s exclusive interview with Ford, done in 2004, where Ford essentially said he opposed the Iraq war: Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was [...]

 

The reception Jon Carry received in Iraq

Posted by: ST on December 28, 2006 at 3:33 pm » 5 Comments

WDAY’s Scott Hennen has a photo and report from a friend of his who is serving in Iraq on the reception Senator John Kerry received in Iraq. Hey Senator, have you gotten the message yet that the troops don’t want you “stuck in Irak” with them – ever? BTW, this isn’t the first time Kerry’s [...]

 

Dem party activist compares cracking down on illegal immigration to the Holocaust

Posted by: ST on December 27, 2006 at 6:24 pm » 10 Comments

Just when you thought you’d heard it all from the pro-illegal immigration crowd. Via Reuters: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s. They accused the Department [...]

 

Iraqi appeals court: Saddam must be put to death within 30 days

Posted by: ST on December 27, 2006 at 10:45 am » 23 Comments

Saddam Hussein was setenced on November 5th to death for his genocidal crimes, and an appeals court ruled yesterday that his sentence should be upheld and that the former Iraqi dictator must be put to death by hanging within 30 days: BAGHDAD, Dec. 26 — An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence [...]

 

Troop deaths in Iraq: The media creates another “milestone”

Posted by: ST on December 27, 2006 at 10:21 am » 9 Comments

Macranger blogs about an Associated Press report from yesterday which noted the following: “The U.S. military on Tuesday announced the deaths of six more American soldiers, pushing the U.S. military death toll since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 to at least 2,978 — five more than the number killed in the [...]

 

Gerald Ford, 1913-2006

Posted by: ST on December 27, 2006 at 9:40 am » 6 Comments

Former President Gerald Ford, who took over Nixon’s presidency after Nixon resigned in disgrace and who also later pardoned Nixon, passed away yesterday. He was 93. Lots of blogposts paying tribute to Ford can be found here. Many thoughts and prayers are with the Ford family today. RIP, Mr. President. More: Captain Ed asks an [...]