Daily Archives: September 21st, 2007 «

 

Jesse MacBeth admits in federal court that he is a liar

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2007 at 11:09 pm » 8 Comments

Remember back in May of 2006, when numerous bloggers were digging into the history to of Jesse MacBeth’s story in which he claimed to be an Iraq war vet who was ‘pushed’ by his fellow soldiers to commit attrocities against the Iraqi people? He admitted today in federal court that his story was false: A [...]

 

A “last lecture” on living your life to the fullest

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2007 at 9:34 pm » 2 Comments

I just got done reading this piece about Carnegie Mellon University Professor Randy Pausch, who participated earlier this week in what’s called “The Last Lecture Series” – a series that is becoming more and more popular at colleges around the country, according to the WSJ: This is a common title for talks on college campuses [...]

 

Friday open thread

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2007 at 1:37 pm » 12 Comments

Had a mild morning, but having a busy afternoon – will be back later tonight to catch up on some blogging. Here are a couple of quick links: The Politico writes about a week’s full of Democratic failures in trying to get the US to cut from Iraq, including today’s failure to pass the Reed/Levin [...]

 

On men “dissing the sisterhood”

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2007 at 9:49 am » 6 Comments

Kathleen Parker has written a piece today on a topic I’ve talked about here often, and that is the hypocrisy that is deep-rooted within the feminist movement, a hypocrisy you almost never see called out in the mainstream media. Parker writes: WASHINGTON — The latest smack-down of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers should extinguish any [...]