Daily Archives: May 3rd, 2007 «

 

Liveblogging tonight’s GOP presidential candidates debate (EXIT QUESTION: IS CHRIS MATTHEWS THE WORST MODERATOR EVER?)

Posted by: ST on May 3, 2007 at 4:04 pm » 32 Comments

ELECTION 2008: The Republican Candidates Debate – 5/3/07 The stage is set, and tonight’s the night for the first of several scheduled debates for the Republican hopefuls for president. USA Today has a who’s who of the candidates here, and also writes about the underdogs in the race and how this could give them the [...]

 

Conservative blogger pwns HuffPo for hotlinking

Posted by: ST on May 3, 2007 at 1:04 pm » 1 Comment

A little Thursday afternoon funny. Heheh. Hat tip: Justin at View From The Cheap Seats

 

Find out what the “Native Hawaiian Bill” is – and how to stop it. Again.

Posted by: ST on May 3, 2007 at 10:47 am » 3 Comments

For background and to learn more about what this bill is about and what it would do, Ed Meese and Todd Gaziano wrote a piece for Heritage last June explaining it: The U.S. Senate is scheduled to begin debate as early as June 7, 2006, on the misleadingly named “Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of [...]

 

Obama uses “tough love” tactic on black community issues

Posted by: ST on May 3, 2007 at 10:18 am » 7 Comments

The Washington Post reports this morning about Senator Barack Obama’s reaching out to the black community by openly airing out a little dirty laundry: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is delivering pointed critiques of the African American community as he campaigns for its votes, lamenting that many of his generation are “disenfranchising” themselves because they don’t [...]

 

More instances of fake ‘hate crime’ incidents being reported (UPDATE: HOUSE PASSES HR 1592)

Posted by: ST on May 3, 2007 at 9:38 am » 2 Comments

Matt Barber has the details (he wrote about other instances here). My question is: If ‘hate crimes’ in this country are supposedly so ‘commonplace’, then why do we continually read about instances where false reports have been filed on a ‘hate crime’ that never happened? Is it because so-called ‘victim groups’ in this country have [...]

 

Democrats surrender – drop demand for Iraq timeline

Posted by: ST on May 3, 2007 at 8:58 am » 5 Comments

The President stood firm on the issue of a timeline, and the Democrats who made it the centerpiece of the war supplemental they tried to “shove down the President’s throat” have backed off the demand: President Bush and congressional leaders began negotiating a second war funding bill yesterday, with Democrats offering the first major concession: [...]