Daily Archives: July 11th, 2007 «

 

Shift in abortion attitudes to pro-life?

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2007 at 9:27 pm » 3 Comments

This study gives me hope that those tiny abortion victories I’ve talked about before will one day lead to big victories, like having an overwhelming majority of Americans being against abortion. Especially nice to see in that study? The number of young women who now identify themselves as pro-life. James Taranto has a good analysis [...]

 

Fredmania! (MORE: FRED NOW SET TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL IN AUGUST)

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2007 at 8:53 pm » 7 Comments

The Redstate blog recently conducted an interview with the man formerly known as D.A. Arthur Branch on the hit TV drama “Law and Order” – here’s Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Thompson’s doing a good job of utilizing the Internet for promoting his candidacy. Powerline’s got a column he sent to them posted [...]

 

NBC’s round-the-clock coverage of “Live Earth”: Biased?

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2007 at 7:34 pm » 4 Comments

Interesting piece from Investor’s Business Daily (emphasis added): Politics: Was what Al Gore called “the largest global entertainment event in all of human history” also the largest in-kind political contribution? And where’s the Fairness Doctrine when you need it? Considering that here in the U.S. the Peacock Network’s three-hour Gore infomercial on global warming lost [...]

 

RIP, Lady Bird Johnson

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2007 at 6:44 pm » 1 Comment

She was 94 years old, and passed away from natural causes. She was a beautiful lady. In some of her younger photos she reminds me of my grandmother when she was younger. I love the portrait painted of Lady Bird that is on the WH website: Other photos of Mrs. Johnson can be viewed here.

 

Hearing officer: Haditha charges against Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt should be dropped

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2007 at 2:47 pm » 5 Comments

Via CBS/AP: (CBS/AP) The government’s case against a Marine accused of fatally shooting Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha lacks sufficient evidence to go to a court-martial and should be dropped, a hearing officer determined. The murder charges were brought against Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt for killing three Iraqi brothers in November 2005. [...]

 

Presidential “scholars”: Unfinished business Bush will leave is “unprecedented since at least World War II”

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2007 at 9:28 am » 8 Comments

Via USA Today: WASHINGTON — The 44th president will move into the Oval Office with an agenda defined in large part by the 43rd president. In many ways, it will be George W. Bush’s third term. Among pressing issues left on the table: What’s next in Iraq. How to restore America’s reputation around the world. [...]

 

NAACP chairman compares Hurricane Katrina response to lynching, suggests the ‘ignoring’ of people’s needs was motivated by race

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2007 at 8:51 am » 1 Comment

I don’t have a transcript for this video as Fox hasn’t posted it yet, but in a Tuesday segment of Hannity and Colmes, they replayed a video from from Sunday’s 98th annual NAACP convention, where – in his opening statement – NAACP Chairman Julian Bond suggested that the ‘poor Katrina’ response was deliberate, and very [...]