Daily Archives: March 29th, 2007 «

 

‘bats make it clear: Senator Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat will be targeted

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 7:59 pm » 3 Comments

I read a few days ago at The Politico that Democrats had set their sights on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as he faces re-election next year, and thought to myself that it figures they would, because he’s been a hell of an effective leader against a lot of the moonbattiness that goes on in [...]

 

Best wishes to Captain Ed’s “First Mate”

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 7:35 pm » 1 Comment

Captain Ed’s wife, better known to his readers as “The First Mate”, will be having kidney transplant surgery tomorrow. Please keep them and their family in your prayers for a successful surgery and for a full recovery for Mrs. Captain.

 

Nutroots muscle-flexing: Will the CBC cave, too?

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 7:18 pm » Comments Off

When last we left you, the Nutroots had successfully shut down a scheduled debate in Nevada between the Democratic hopefuls for president because of their visceral, almost perverted (as in VERY weird) obsessive hatred for “Faux News” – in essence, they were able to use the shame card (their third favorite card – I’m sure [...]

 

Selling global warming alarmism for cold hard cash

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 4:31 pm » 3 Comments

Iain Murray at NRO’s Planet Gore blog writes today about one of the leading IPCC scientists who is cashing in on global warming alarmism: Via Roger Pielke Jr, we have the unedifying spectacle of at least one leading IPCC scientist engaged in selling alarmist predictions of what climate change might do to your property in [...]

 

Making fun of people with cancer: A sick moonbat trend

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 3:59 pm » 3 Comments

Bob Owens has numerous links up to recent examples of moonbats gone wild and their latest in sick attempts at ‘humor’ by making fun of conservatives with cancer (like WH press secretary Tony Snow and the late but not forgotten writer and blogger Cathy Seipp). I remember last week when the Edwards’ made the announcement [...]

 

Voter fraud

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 3:00 pm » 2 Comments

It’s just a myth, according to these guys. Right. Uh huh. Yep. Don’t you just love when you have a manufactured scandal over the firing of 8 US attorneys, some of them fired for (according to the DOJ) not pursing voter fraud allegations aggressively enough, that all of a sudden all that widespread voter fraud [...]

 

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison fights for gun rights for Washington, DC

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 12:14 pm » 1 Comment

On the heels of the DC Circuit Court’s ruling that Washington, DC’s gun laws are unconstitutional, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) is stepping forward on the legislative end of the issue: WASHINGTON, DC — Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) introduced the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act of 2007, a bill to restore Second Amendment [...]

 

Senate passes cut and run war supplemental

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 11:47 am » 2 Comments

Losers. Now, the House and Senate versions are similar, but not exactly the same, so they’ll have to be conferred on to make them mesh. Rest assured, the President will veto this bill and he’ll make a very public show of it. Allah has more links and points to a surprising LAT editorial which condemns [...]

 

“Rev.” Jesse Jackson will vote for Senator Barack Obama, and NOW endorses Hillary

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 8:58 am » 33 Comments

Ben Smith at The Politico has the report on the Rev. Jackson’s declaration. And the AP reports on NOW’s endorsement of La Clinton. In other news, dog bites man. Update: Speaking of Senator Obama, the Chicago Sun-Times has compiled a list of what they call ‘gaffes’ the Senator has made while on the campaign trail. [...]

 

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s resignation from the Military Construction Appropriations Committee

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2007 at 8:47 am » 35 Comments

The Jawa Report has a post up this morning about Senator Dianne Feinstein’s quiet resignation from the Military Construction Appropriations Committee back in January due to conflict of interest issues involving her husband Richard Blum, who owns two major defense contractors who have been awarded very lucractive military construction projects over the years thanks, no [...]