Daily Archives: September 25th, 2007 «

 

Bob Herbert’s racial hit piece on the GOP (MORE: HERBERT COLUMN A RE-WRITE OF 2005 COLUMN)

Posted by: ST on September 25, 2007 at 6:40 pm » 11 Comments

I just got done reading this opinion piece written by the NYT’s Bob Herbert, the headline of which reads “The Ugly Side of the GOP” which reads sort of like a fantasy piece for race-baiting Democrats who have sought for decades to make the GOP the party of racism. Here’s a snippet: The G.O.P. has [...]

 

More military hatred in San Fran

Posted by: ST on September 25, 2007 at 3:05 pm » 10 Comments

The idiocy never stops (emphasis added): SAN FRANCISCO, Sep. 24, 2007 (KGO) – New York said “yes,” but we said “no.” Why were the U.S. Marines denied permission to film a recruiting commercial on the streets of San Francisco? San Francisco is, once again, the center of a controversy over how city leaders treat the [...]

 

Two Saudi girls pepper spray Saudi morality police

Posted by: ST on September 25, 2007 at 11:14 am » 4 Comments

Love it! Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat- Members of Khobar’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were the victims of an attack by two Saudi females, Asharq Al-Awsat can reveal. According to the head of the commission in Khobar, two girls pepper sprayed members of the commission after they had tried to offer [...]

 

President to speak at the UN this morning (MORE – CUBAN DELEGATION WALKS OUT)

Posted by: ST on September 25, 2007 at 9:54 am » 1 Comment

Captain Ed provides a preview for what he’s expected to say, and will liveblog the speech here or here. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to speak there later today. On a related note, Jimmie at the Sundries Shack has a link roundup of international press coverage Ahmeanie’s speech at Columbia received yesterday. The coverage was, of course, [...]

 

More on Democrats and their “ethics bill”

Posted by: ST on September 25, 2007 at 9:40 am » 1 Comment

Justin Rood reports that Senate Democrats may have gutted their own ethics bill: When no one was looking, someone cut a hole out of the Democrats’ much-hyped ethics bill. A watchdog group which caught it suspects the Democrats of undermining their own effort to clean up Capitol Hill. Dubbed “the biggest reform effort in a [...]