Daily Archives: August 23rd, 2007 «

 

Howard Kurtz on mortgage loans

Posted by: ST on August 23, 2007 at 11:03 pm » 8 Comments

ST reader Leslie forwarded me this piece written by Howard Kurtz on the “sob stories” we hear about people who’ve bought a home they can’t afford thanks to a dicey loan, and how the media portrays them as victims: Memo to the media: Everyone who is defaulting on a home mortgage is not necessarily a [...]

 

Mission accomplished: Fox/CBC debate cancelled

Posted by: ST on August 23, 2007 at 10:01 pm » 8 Comments

Via AP: (AP) Fox News and a black political group say they will not hold a Sept. 23 Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, which the leading candidates already were planning to skip. A new date had not yet been set, Fox News spokesman Michael Murphy said Thursday. The campaigns of U.S. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton [...]

 

Louisiana Democrats: Shameless

Posted by: ST on August 23, 2007 at 9:33 pm » 6 Comments

Blake Dvorak at the Real Clear Politics blog posted today about a despicable ad being run by the Louisiana Democratic party against Republican candidate for governor and Congressman Bobby Jindal in which they use his own words to spin a deceptive picture which paints him as supposedly anti-Protestant. Here’s the video: Captain Ed led the [...]

 

Mitt Romney’s abortion stance woes continue

Posted by: ST on August 23, 2007 at 7:24 pm » 6 Comments

It would appear that Iowa straw-poll winner Mitt Romney, who has been dogged with accusations that he changes positions to suit himself almost as often as most people change underwear, seems to no longer be able to keep up with what he says about his stance on abortion from one week to the next: Former [...]

 

Proof positive: The NYT editorial board lives in caves

Posted by: ST on August 23, 2007 at 4:53 pm » 11 Comments

I kept in mind while reading this editorial masquerading as a straight news piece that it was published in the NYT, but even at that, I was absolutely stunned to read their revisionist history tactics on the Vietnam war while at the same time bashing Bush over the head for his speech yesterday to the [...]

 

Thursday open thread

Posted by: ST on August 23, 2007 at 2:49 pm » 16 Comments

I am swimming in a sea of paperwork. Will be back later this evening when I can come up for air …

 

More on the Nutroots targeting of Blue Dog Democrats

Posted by: ST on August 23, 2007 at 10:51 am » 15 Comments

A week ago, I blogged about a plan being cooked up by prominent far lefties in the Nutroots movement to target for ridicule and possible ouster from office moderate Democrats, including the Blue Dog and ‘New’ Democrats who helped form the Democrat majority last year, simply because they don’t toe the ‘progressive’ line on issues [...]

 

Clinton authorized “killing” of OBL? Not so fast

Posted by: ST on August 23, 2007 at 8:51 am » 12 Comments

Remember that interview Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace did with Bill Clinton last September, in which an enraged, defensive, red-faced Clinton wagged his finger at Wallace, claimed he was there as part of a conservative set up, and attempted to ‘set the record straight’ on his admnistration’s ‘efforts’ at capturing or killing OBL? Let’s recap: [...]