Daily Archives: October 5th, 2007 «

 

Christopher Hitchens writes about an American hero: Army 2nd Lt. Mark Daily

Posted by: ST on October 5, 2007 at 7:33 pm » 4 Comments

If you don’t read anything else this weekend, please do read this piece by Christopher Hitchens where he talks about the life of Army 2nd Lt. Mark Daily, who was killed by an IED explosion in Mosul in January. Hitchens found out earlier this year that some of his writings on the Iraq war inspired [...]

 

Predictable liberal reaction of the week: Bush is “fanatically anti-child” to veto the expansion of SCHIP

Posted by: ST on October 5, 2007 at 3:52 pm » 4 Comments

As predicted, the left is using Bush’s veto of expanding SCHIP as an excuse to demagogue Republicans as heartless jerks who don’t care about kids. Prime example: The hinges have come off the normally sane liberal Matthew Yglesias. In a post titled “Child-Haters” he fumes : I was trying to think of something to say [...]

 

Code Pink defaces Marine recruiting center in Berkeley

Posted by: ST on October 5, 2007 at 10:37 am » 18 Comments

The “pro-peace” (uh huh) movement strikes again: (CBS) BERKELEY Marine Captain Richard Lund recruits college students and graduates as candidates for officer positions in the marines. But carrying out that job in Berkeley is not always an easy task. He has listened to a variety of complaints from members of the anti-war group Code Pink [...]

 

In spite of judge’s ruling, Craig won’t resign

Posted by: ST on October 5, 2007 at 9:24 am » 9 Comments

Even though he pledged back at the end of August that he would resign from the Senate, effective 9/30, and in spite of a judge’s ruling yesterday that Craig will not be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to the charge of disorderly conduct, the Idaho Senator is now refusing to resign. There were hints [...]