Daily Archives: September 18th, 2007 «

 

Weds/Thurs open thread

Posted by: ST on September 18, 2007 at 9:00 pm » 17 Comments

… and time for another round of “Caption This” featuring the Goracle: Photo courtesy: Mike Blake/Reuters So tell me: What should the inscription on that Emmy really say?

 

The taser incident at the Kerry campus forum

Posted by: ST on September 18, 2007 at 7:28 pm » 14 Comments

The USA Today’s “On Deadline” blog has updates and video of an incident involving a student at the University of Florida who was tasered during a campus forum featuring Senator John Kerry. This issue has exploded in the blogosphere, but I think south Florida’s Local10′s news report is a good place to start: GAINESVILLE, Fla. [...]

 

The media’s spin on Alan Greenspan’s Iraq comments

Posted by: ST on September 18, 2007 at 10:19 am » 4 Comments

The mediots have been in full-throttle bash-Bush mode (more so than usual) the last couple of days, after a Bob Woodward report in the WaPo on Saturday claimed that Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stated in a new memoir The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World that the Iraq war really was [...]

 

Global warming lawsuit tossed out in San Francisco

Posted by: ST on September 18, 2007 at 9:20 am » 7 Comments

The state of California wanted their global warming alarmist opinions validated via the court system. Thankfully, it didn’t work. Via AP: A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by California that sought to hold the world’s six largest automakers accountable for their contribution to global warming. In its lawsuit filed last year, [...]

 

Dems plan on delaying Iraq war funding in hopes that Republican support for the war eventually erodes

Posted by: ST on September 18, 2007 at 8:45 am » 6 Comments

Here we go again: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are not expected to take up President Bush’s war spending request until November, giving them time to calculate their next move and see if Republican support for his policies deteriorates. The delay in passing the bill, which Bush says is needed by Oct. 1, is likely to [...]