Daily Archives: November 6th, 2007 «

 

Bubba bumbles in criticism of Hillary’s competition

Posted by: ST on November 6, 2007 at 10:26 pm » 8 Comments

As the debate continues over Hillary’s playing the victim card after facing intense scrutiny and cracking under pressure at last week’s Democratic candidates’ debate, her hubby Bubba, desperate to get the Clinton paws on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again, rallied to her defense yesterday by invoking the “swift boating” argument against her opponents (emphasis added): “‘We [...]

 

Defense appropriations bill’s earmarks

Posted by: ST on November 6, 2007 at 8:34 pm » 1 Comment

Here’s a fun way to find out how much pork Congressional reps are trying to bring to their districts: Check out this super-cool tool created by the Sunlight Foundation which allows you to view earmarks which are buried within the House’s defense appropriations bill using Google Earth (h/t: Robert Bluey). And speaking of pork … [...]

 

Despite believing Dick Cheney is a real-life version of the imperialist Darth Vadar …

Posted by: ST on November 6, 2007 at 7:22 pm » 5 Comments

… House Democrats don’t want to debate a resolution that calls for his impeachment, and have effectively killed the resolution, which was written by Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Why won’t they press to impeach a man many of them believe is a “war criminal”? Politics, of course – which is also exactly why they haven’t tried [...]

 

MSNBC’s leftward descent

Posted by: ST on November 6, 2007 at 6:10 pm » 2 Comments

I don’t watch much of the big 24-7 news networks anymore, but when I did, I always tuned in to either Fox or MSNBC, because I found both of them to be generally fair. I found Fox to be more fair than MSNBC, but gave MSNBC credit for being an offshoot of the liberal NBC [...]

 

Hi (Open thread)

Posted by: ST on November 6, 2007 at 5:06 pm » 7 Comments

Sorry for the light blogging – our network went down just before lunch, and just as I was composing a post on MSNBC’s leftward tilt. I hope the ‘net is back up tomorrow at the 8-5, but in case it’s not, you can use this as an open thread. I’m now at casa de ST, [...]

 

Another fake “hate” incident at GWU

Posted by: ST on November 6, 2007 at 8:56 am » 4 Comments

There must be something in the water at GWU. A few weeks ago, several GWU students admitted to putting up fake “hate Muslim” posters around the university in response to Islamofascism Awareness Week. Robert Stacy McCain reports on another hoax a student has admitted to perpetrating on herself (h/t: BCB): A student at George Washington [...]