Daily Archives: September 12th, 2007 «

 

Wednesday/Thursday open thread

Posted by: ST on September 12, 2007 at 10:00 pm » 8 Comments

Just realized I hadn’t started one of these in a few days. Enjoy, and I’ll see ya’ll in the a.m. Charlotte, NC skyline (photo released into public domain by copyright holder)

 

Rutgers women’s basketball player drops lawsuit against Don Imus

Posted by: ST on September 12, 2007 at 4:14 pm » 4 Comments

Sanity prevails. For now, anyway. Prior: Kia Vaughn: Don Imus violated the Rutgers womens basketball teams’ ‘civil rights’

 

Tony Snow’s last day as press secretary is today (CORRECTION: TODAY IS HIS LAST ON-CAMERA PRESS BRIEFING)

Posted by: ST on September 12, 2007 at 3:49 pm » 2 Comments

I join The Hill’s Brent Budowsky in wishing Tony the very best of luck in his future endeavors. He will most definitely be missed. Tony had a unique way of dealing with the press not often seen from press secretaries, no matter the party. This post has links to some of his more memorable moments [...]

 

Political correctness strikes high school in Sampson County, NC (UPDATE: FLAG BAN LIFTED)

Posted by: ST on September 12, 2007 at 2:45 pm » 7 Comments

Hobbton High School students are not allowed to wear anything which displays our flag: SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. – On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an American flag. Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed [...]

 

And sometimes, conservatives don’t get it, either

Posted by: ST on September 12, 2007 at 1:14 pm » 5 Comments

Very early this morning, I wrote a post about Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and his comments on the 6th anniversary of 9-11 in which he essentially stated that all we had to have done prior to 9-11 in order to prevent the attacks was to have shown some “love” and “understanding” to Islamofascists, and remarked [...]

 

Clinton campaign dismissed alarm bells raised by California businessman about Hsu

Posted by: ST on September 12, 2007 at 9:12 am » 13 Comments

The LA Times reports that the Clinton campaign “dismissed allegations about Hsu” made by Irvine, CA businessman Jack Cassidy: Before the announcement, new evidence surfaced that the Clinton camp had dismissed allegations about Hsu made by a Southern California businessman. In an e-mail obtained by The Times, a Clinton campaign staffer told a California Democratic [...]

 

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick: One more liberal Democrat who just doesn’t get it

Posted by: ST on September 12, 2007 at 12:58 am » 26 Comments

As you know, all across America and many countries around the world yesterday, tributes were paid to the victims of 9-11. For those of us whose memories of 9-11 are as fresh in our minds today as if the attacks just happened – and who also understood on that day six years ago that in [...]