Daily Archives: August 2nd, 2007 «

 

Sean Penn picks up endorsement …

Posted by: ST on August 2, 2007 at 10:16 pm » 3 Comments

… from Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez: CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised Sean Penn for his critical stance against the war in Iraq, saying the two chatted by phone and soon plan to meet in person. Chavez said Penn traveled to Venezuela this week wanting to learn more about the situation in [...]

 

Thursday night salute to manliness

Posted by: ST on August 2, 2007 at 9:54 pm » 16 Comments

Heheh. I love this photo, sent to me as part of a collage of photos, from ST reader Lorica: Here’s one I’m sure the male readers of this blog will really dig: This one set my heart a’flutterin’:

 

Hillary scolds Obama like a schoolboy, yet contradicts herself (MORE: NYPOST GETS CREATIVE WITH OBAMA PIC)

Posted by: ST on August 2, 2007 at 7:46 pm » 7 Comments

(Photo courtesy: Illustration by Stanford Kay for Newsweek) Not quite giving Obama a day to recover from his faux warmonger declarations before she pounced like a tiger on its prey, Dem presidential candidate frontrunner Hillary Clinton had this to say in response to recent ‘careless’ remarks Senator Obama has made about invading Pakistan – and [...]

 

Liberals leaving America for Canada

Posted by: ST on August 2, 2007 at 4:05 pm » 10 Comments

Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters has the details on a story ABC News did on emigration from the US to Canada, in which they report that a substantial number of those who’ve packed up and headed to ‘higher ground’ are liberals. I find that really sad. Not in a boohoo kind of way but just disappointing. [...]

 

Politicizing the Minnesota bridge collapse (MORE: THE FAULT OF BOTH BUSH PRESIDENTS)?

Posted by: ST on August 2, 2007 at 3:14 pm » 26 Comments

Of course, it you knew it was bound to happen. Check the comments here (thanks to ST reader GWR for the tip) and the Shot in the Dark blog notes the politicizing already taking place in Minnesota (thanks to Bak for that tip). The ‘bats don’t ever put their hatred to bed for even a [...]

 

Silky Phoney: “Giuliani is Bush on Steroids”

Posted by: ST on August 2, 2007 at 1:23 pm » 13 Comments

Via Rolling Stone: Just got back from an Edwards event in San Francisco. He threw out a lot of red meat — in particular savaging the big oil, drug, and insurance companies — and these deep blue Americans loved every minute of it. Edwards is awesome on the stump. He knows how to work a [...]

 

Defeatist Dem rhetoric on Iraq, part 2

Posted by: ST on August 2, 2007 at 9:24 am » 19 Comments

Earlier this week, we read about a revealing quote from House Majority Whip James Clyburn in which he stated that a good report from General Petraeus in September on how the surge was going in Iraq would present “problems” for him and other anti-war Congressional Democrats who think we should cut and run. Don Surber [...]