Daily Archives: August 13th, 2007 «

 

Another war critic changes tune

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2007 at 9:32 pm » 45 Comments

Ray Drake at Davids Medienkritik Online reports on a turn around in opinion from one of Germany’s most popular magazines on the war in Iraq. Consider it a must-read.

 

Monday/Tuesday open thread

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2007 at 9:27 pm » 3 Comments

Please keep the 6 missing Utah miners and their families in your thoughts and prayers right now. The miners have been trapped for a week now, and attempts to rescue them have not been successful.

 

Silky Phony caught lying – again

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2007 at 6:17 pm » 3 Comments

First, the initial assertion, back on August 3 (emphasis added) August 3, 2007 — WASHINGTON – John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul’s companies. The Edwards campaign said the multimillionaire [...]

 

Dissent is patriotic!!!

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2007 at 6:02 pm » 3 Comments

Especially this kind!!!! The scene: Jackson Hole, WY, in front of Dick Cheney’s house. The date: Saturday August 11, 2007 Can’t stomach watching the vid? Here’s the story (photos included): WILSON, Wyo. — Demonstrators gathered Saturday afternoon at the rustic crossroads of U.S. Highway 22 and the Village Road to protest the war in Iraq [...]

 

Research fraud within the IPCC? And other ‘global warming’ news

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2007 at 1:43 pm » 7 Comments

As always, Noel Sheppard is all over the allegations of possible IPCC fraud (emphasis his): At virtually the same time NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies was correcting historical climate data with the assistance of Climate Audit’s Steve McIntyre, a British mathematician discovered serious flaws in papers used and cited by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental [...]

 

US military: “Major” attacks are down in Iraq

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2007 at 10:12 am » 1 Comment

More bad news for anti-war Democrats: The number of truck bombs and other large al-Qaeda-style attacks in Iraq have declined nearly 50% since the United States started increasing troop levels in Iraq about six months ago, according to the U.S. military command in Iraq. The high-profile attacks — generally large bombs hitting markets, mosques or [...]

 

Public enemy #1 resigning at the end of August

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2007 at 8:35 am » 10 Comments

The WSJ reports: Karl Rove, President Bush’s longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, marking a turning point for the Bush presidency. Mr. Rove’s departure removes one of the White House’s most polarizing figures, and perhaps signals the effective end of the lame [...]