Daily Archives: August 12th, 2007 «

 

Tommy Thompson drops out of presidential race (MORE: YOUTUBE DEBATE FOR R’S BACK ON)

Posted by: ST on August 12, 2007 at 10:38 pm » 4 Comments

He made it official via a press release. The AP reports: MILWAUKEE – Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, a campaign official said Sunday. His campaign released a statement saying the Republican is leaving the campaign trail several hours after WITI-TV in Milwaukee reported that [...]

 

Some Democrat leaders are ‘fearful’ of a Hillary candidacy

Posted by: ST on August 12, 2007 at 8:06 pm » 10 Comments

Not because of what they perceive to be her adequate qualifications for the office, but because of how she could galvanize a Republican base which loathes the Clintons: They say the former first lady may be too polarizing for much of the country. She could jeopardize the party’s standing with independent voters and give Republicans [...]

 

Pork reigns supreme

Posted by: ST on August 12, 2007 at 5:17 pm » 4 Comments

Captain Ed has the details on the latest report regarding Democrats, earmarks, and pork spending – this time on hospitals in towns and cities that would benefit their re-election campaigns: While the Democrats hailed the SCHIP legislation as protecting America’s children, its real intent appears to be protecting Democratic backsides. It rewards hospitals in suburban [...]

 

Newsweek contributing editor: We went way too far on “well funded global warming skeptics” story

Posted by: ST on August 12, 2007 at 10:54 am » 10 Comments

He must have gotten a lot of negative feedback about this story. In today’s Newsweek, contributing editor Robert J. Samuelson writes: Against these real-world pressures, NEWSWEEK’s “denial machine” is a peripheral and highly contrived story. NEWSWEEK implied, for example, that ExxonMobil used a think tank to pay academics to criticize global-warming science. Actually, this accusation [...]

 

“We don’t wanna hear it!” – part 2

Posted by: ST on August 12, 2007 at 10:32 am » 6 Comments

The latest “we don’t wanna hear that war critics are changing their tunes on Iraq” denialist? None other than the far left’s favorite selective fact quoter, sock puppet, strawman creator Glenn Greenwald. To repeat something I asked in my prior post on this issue: It’s almost as if they’re wishing things weren’t turning around in [...]