Daily Archives: August 15th, 2007 «

 

Weds night/Thursday open thread

Posted by: ST on August 15, 2007 at 11:24 pm » 4 Comments

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Another day, another lefty blog, another instance of hypocrisy

Posted by: ST on August 15, 2007 at 10:41 pm » 10 Comments

Over at Memeorandum, I see that Jane Hamsher’s uber-lefty feminist blog Firedoglake is calling on Maine Senator Susan Collins to fire her official campaign blogger for alleged “sexist” and “misogynistic” remarks he (gasp) made towards the Firedoglake gang. For the record, here were the remarks (in response to the stories about Collins’ Dem opponent Tom [...]

 

Several more reasons not to trust the MSM (MORE: MSNBC NEWSROOM BOOED PREZ’S 2003 SOTU)

Posted by: ST on August 15, 2007 at 8:05 pm » 6 Comments

Remember “Green Helmet Guy,” the Lebanese civilian defense worker who we saw in multiple AP photographs after various alleged Israeli attacks on Lebanon staging photographs of dead children for photographers? Well it would appear that another media outlet, the AFP, has their own little propaganda spreader, as Rocco DiPippo at the Autonomist blog reports here. [...]

 

Revisiting the “chickenhawk” argument

Posted by: ST on August 15, 2007 at 3:39 pm » 8 Comments

Jim Geraghty has had enough, and lashes out at the NYT for parroting the chickenhawk argument: The New York Times offers a lengthy “Political Memo” column detailing how the issue of Mitt Romney’s sons’ choice not to serve in the military has come up several times on the campaign trail in recent days. Is this [...]

 

LAT: Petraeus is ‘expected to propose a partial pullback’ in his September briefing

Posted by: ST on August 15, 2007 at 3:10 pm » 4 Comments

There’s a huge buzz in the blogosphere on this story: Intent on demonstrating progress in Iraq, the top U.S. general there is expected by Bush administration officials to recommend removing American troops soon from several areas where commanders believe security has improved, possibly including Al Anbar province. According to the officials, Gen. David H. Petraeus [...]

 

Illegal immigration detention center coming to Charlotte, NC

Posted by: ST on August 15, 2007 at 11:03 am » 23 Comments

It’ll be the first of its kind in the nation: Federal immigration officials want to build a 1,500-bed detention facility in Mecklenburg County to house illegal immigrants before they’re deported. The facility would ease the strain on the county’s overcrowded jails, where 500 inmates sleep on the floor every night. The center — the first [...]

 

Why is Mary Winkler free?

Posted by: ST on August 15, 2007 at 9:38 am » 17 Comments

Is this an example of justice served? I think not: (CNN) — After spending a total of seven months in custody, the Tennessee woman who fatally shot her preacher husband in the back was released on Tuesday, her lawyer told CNN. Mary Winkler, a 33-year-old mother of three girls, was freed from a Tennessee mental [...]