Daily Archives: August 6th, 2007 «

 

Weekly Standard: “Scott Thomas” recants story

Posted by: ST on August 6, 2007 at 11:03 pm » 7 Comments

Huge news, via Paul at Wizbang. I anticipate a response from TNR editors shortly – as soon as they return from their summer vacation. Previous: Busted: Scott Thomas Beauchamp claims bebunked by Army internal investigation, TNR’s credibility takes severe hit Who is The New Republic’s “Scott Thomas”? The New Republic’s credibility issues

 

Senator John Kerry: I said it before I didn’t say it

Posted by: ST on August 6, 2007 at 10:23 pm » 5 Comments

*SIGH* Can’t add anything more to it. You dropped the ball, Senator. Again. Flashback: Former Kerry campaign strategist: Kerry’s vote in favor of Iraq war was all for politics The latest gw hypocrite: Senator John Kerry Kerry volunteers to talk to Iran and Syria More John Kerry: Because We Can’t Get Enough Of His Wonderful [...]

 

‘Leading’ environmentalist: Walking causes more harm than driving

Posted by: ST on August 6, 2007 at 9:49 pm » 6 Comments

Just when you thought you’d heard it all: Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated. Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate [...]

 

Monday night funny: “The Mullet”

Posted by: ST on August 6, 2007 at 7:58 pm » 8 Comments

My day was super-stressful, but receiving this hilarious pictorial on the infamous mullet (made infamous by country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus, left, in the early 90s) has helped put me back into a good frame of mind. I literally LOL’d at some of the pictures on those pages. Ok, a show of hands (or [...]

 

Favorite and least favorite GOP pres. contenders – plus other election news

Posted by: ST on August 6, 2007 at 7:21 pm » 1 Comment

John Hawkins recently polled conservative bloggers to find out which candidates they liked the most, and which ones they liked the least. The results can be read here. My answers? Most like to see: 1) Duncan Hunter 2) Mike Huckabee 3) Mitt Romney 4) Fred Thompson 5) Sam Brownback Least like to see: 1) Ron [...]

 

Bad news for Democrats: Poll numbers show support for surge growing

Posted by: ST on August 6, 2007 at 6:10 pm » 8 Comments

I bet House Majority Whip James Clyburn and other defeatist Democrats like him were none too pleased to read the latest poll numbers on the surge, courtesy of USA Today: USA TODAY’s Susan Page reports that President Bush is making some headway in arguing that the increase in U.S. troops in Iraq is showing military [...]

 

Mike Huckabee interview

Posted by: ST on August 6, 2007 at 8:27 am » 8 Comments

Brian at Iowa Voice recently had the opportunity to sit down for a 20 minute interview with presidential hopeful and former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee. Brian did a great job, and you can read the interview here. I like Huckabee a lot. I just wish he was a ‘big contender’ right now. Of course, [...]

 

Next three two days … OPEN THREAD

Posted by: ST on August 6, 2007 at 8:19 am » 2 Comments

The next three two days will see me blogging primarily in the evenings as my days are going to be jammed up. If I get the opp. to check in here during the day some, I will … in the meantime, please use this as today’s open thread. Update: There’s been a change in plans [...]