Daily Archives: March 5th, 2007 «

 

Monday open thread (ALSO TONIGHT’S “24″ OPEN THREAD)

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2007 at 8:48 pm » 5 Comments

Hmmm. Wouldn’t this be kind of, er, painful? Oh, and what the heck is going on in Tennessee?? — *Bumped to the top*: Use this as the open thread for tonight’s “24″ episode. I’m going to retire early this evening. I’m exhausted (long day). I’ll check out Rick Moran’s recap in the morning. Tue PM [...]

 

Has John Edwards flipped out?

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2007 at 8:19 pm » 31 Comments

No, I don’t mean this kind of “flipped” (see photo, left) but another kind. Bryan Preston at Hot Air blogged this evening about John Edwards latest campaign tactic, which is to invoke Jesus when talking about Iraq, or other ‘failures’ of the Bush administration. He linked up to this AP report, the lowlights of which [...]

 

Michael Yon in Baghdad

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2007 at 7:48 pm » Comments Off

Michael Yon’s latest dispatch is posted, and in it he talks about, among other things, the morale of the US military. Lots of photos, too. See and read it all here.

 

The latest on the Libby trial jury deliberations

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2007 at 3:30 pm » Comments Off

Byron York gets us up to speed, on day nine of jury deliberations in the Libby trial. Tom Maguire has more info and commentary.

 

Liberal bloggers who have used the “f-bomb” and gotten away with it

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2007 at 11:52 am » 7 Comments

John Hawkins has a link roundup of liberal bloggers who have used the “f” word (and no, I don’t mean the slang word for sex) and have, of course, been able to do it free and clear without any condemnation from their fellow lefty bloggers. Now, contrast that to the right taking one of their [...]

 

Why not give free market healthcare for veterans a try? (MORE: A VIETNAM VETERAN EMAILS)

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2007 at 10:00 am » 6 Comments

Instead of continually having them be treated at poorly run, ineffective, unacceptable government-run ‘healthcare’ facilities? Michelle Malkin has more links, including a spot-on one from David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy: If private companies had mismanaged outpatient care for veterans the way the V.A. system has, there would be strong calls from all the usual [...]

 

Obama, Hillary both adopt Southern accents while in Selma, AL this past weekend

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2007 at 9:11 am » 10 Comments

Allah has audio of Hillary’s new accent and video of Obama’s from their pandering campaign stops this past weekend in Selma to commemorate Bloody Sunday, but even more curious than their newfound accents is the timeline Allah points out for some of the claims Obama made in his speech. Hmmm. Hear/read/watch here. Oh, and the [...]

 

Prominent global warming alarmist has a change of heart

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2007 at 8:52 am » 3 Comments

Lawrence Soloman in the Canada’s National Post writes: Claude Allegre, one of France’s leading socialists and among her most celebrated scientists, was among the first to sound the alarm about the dangers of global warming. “By burning fossil fuels, man increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which, for example, has raised the [...]