Daily Archives: April 12th, 2007 «

 

Civitas Institute’s Conservative Leadership Conference

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 9:48 pm » 1 Comment

The John William Pope Civitas Institute is holding a Conservative Leadership Conference on Friday and Saturday April 27th and 28th at the Sheraton Hotel in Raleigh, NC. Guest speakers include former Mayor of NYC and Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani (who will be attendees will have lunch with on Friday), former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael [...]

 

Lobbying and ethics reform bill: Will it ever become a reality?

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 9:29 pm » 1 Comment

House Democrats are dragging their feet. But Republicans in the Senate are taking action to try and make the Dems keep at least one of their promises: Dear Senators Reid and McConnell: We are writing to notify you that we will seek unanimous consent to enact S.Res.123, the Senate earmark disclosure rule, on Tuesday, April [...]

 

Double bonus for lefty feminists in the future?

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 9:15 pm » 20 Comments

Check this out: Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today. Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman’s bone marrow tissue after showing that it possible to produce [...]

 

Where are YOUR apologies, Jesse and Al? General thoughts on Imus and the lacrosse cases

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 8:40 pm » 18 Comments

The Imus controversy couldn’t have happened at a better time for the Democrats’ favorite racist Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. The mediots are so focused on their ‘righteous outrage’ over racial comments Don Imus made about the women’s Rutgers basketball team that they are largely ignoring asking them what their thoughts are on the [...]

 

CBS fires Don Imus

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 5:06 pm » 10 Comments

MSNBC is reporting: NEW YORK – CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show Thursday, the final blow for the broadcaster who called the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.” Imus initially was suspended for two weeks for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on the air last week, but outrage continued to [...]

 

Nifong issues ‘apology’ to Duke lacrosse players

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 4:12 pm » 6 Comments

Via AP: DURHAM, N.C. –The local prosecutor who charged three Duke lacrosse players with raping a stripper apologized to the athletes Thursday, acknowledging that the North Carolina attorney general’s decision to drop the case was correct. “To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students [...]

 

Thursday open thread

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 3:31 pm » 4 Comments

Have been slammed most of today. Will check back in tonight to do some blog catching up.

 

Will Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson head to London next?

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 12:29 pm » 9 Comments

Considering what Tony Blair said about knife crime and black culture? Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance and failing to provide support for black-led efforts to tackle [...]

 

Explosion in Iraqi parliament

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2007 at 8:49 am » 4 Comments

Via MSNBC: BAGHDAD, Iraq – A bomb rocked Iraq’s parliament building in the heavily fortified Green Zone Thursday, killing at least two lawmakers in a stunning security breach in the third month of a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown on violence in the capital, officials said. At least four other people were wounded in the blast, which shook [...]