Daily Archives: May 23rd, 2007 «

 

The war on Rosie O.: Rosie says attacks on her are because she’s a “fat lesbian.”

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 11:43 pm » 16 Comments

All I can say to this is GO ELISABETH HASSELBECK! Hot Air has video of the exchange. When all else fails and you can’t back up your insinuations, always play the victim card, right Rosie? Chris Matthews, strangely, took issue with Rosie’s implication that our troops were the terrorists in Iraq. I say “strangely” because [...]

 

John Edwards “two Americas” theme takes a big hit

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 11:24 pm » 19 Comments

Here (sub. req’d) is what the slick Senator from North (or is it South?) Carolina won’t tell you on his campaign stops where he discusses ‘declining wages’ (emphasis added): It’s been a rough week for John Edwards, and now comes more bad news for his “two Americas” campaign theme. A new study by the Congressional [...]

 

Is Jimmy Carter to blame for the rise of Al Qaeda?

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 11:06 pm » 5 Comments

I think they’re stretching it a bit, but Investor’s Business Daily attempts to make their case that he is to blame here. Hat tip: W. Thomas Smith, Jr. at NRO’s “The Tank” blog WOT-related: Make sure to check out Michael Yon’s latest piece, titled “Maysan – A Small Battle in the Media War” here.

 

Feminista college president: We need more women’s colleges!

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 10:59 pm » 3 Comments

Joanne V. Creighton, president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, penned an opinion piece for the Boston Globe expressing support for female-only colleges: THE NAMING of a woman president of Harvard is a giant step for womankind and for Harvard itself, long a bastion of white-male privilege. That the new president will cross [...]

 

Cosmetic abortions: A growing trend

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 10:09 pm » 6 Comments

I’ve been told that abortion laws in the UK are actually more strict than they are here in the US. With news like this, I really wonder if that claim is true. Via Kevin McCullough, I saw this link to a disturbing Washington Times piece about the practice of cosmetic abortions, which are gaining in [...]

 

Democrats, ethics, and “no more business as usual”: Just a bunch of BS

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 8:14 pm » 2 Comments

The Majority Accountability Project calls House Democrats on their do as I say, not as I do approach to ethics: Despite last week’s media blitz promoting tougher ethics enforcement, a group of freshmen Congressmen failed their first practical test Tuesday night, when they refused to reprimand one of their colleagues for an apparent ethics violation. [...]

 

US troops winning the hearts and minds of embedded journalists in Iraq

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 7:23 pm » 4 Comments

This is encouraging: While I was at the Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad on my recent trip to Iraq, a pair of Spanish journalists–a newspaper reporter and a photojournalist–walked in, fresh from their embed with the 1-4 Cavalry of the First Infantry Division (the unit with which I embedded only days later). They had [...]

 

Wednesday open thread

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 1:43 pm » 7 Comments

Back to work I go …

 

John Edwards: War on terror is a “bumper sticker” slogan (MORE: EDWARDS THEN VS. NOW)

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 1:28 pm » 9 Comments

This ought to play really well with the hardcore anti-war Dem base, which I believe is what Edwards is shooting for to try and gain more traction in the polls: NEW YORK — Democrat John Edwards Wednesday repudiated the notion that there is a “global war on terror,” calling it an ideological doctrine advanced by [...]

 

IAEA: Iran continues to defy the UN on nukes

Posted by: ST on May 23, 2007 at 1:06 pm » 6 Comments

Via AP: VIENNA, Austria – Iran continues to defy U.N. Security Council demands to scrap its uranium enrichment program and has instead expanded its activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday in a finding that sets the stage for new council sanctions. The report from Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog [...]