Daily Archives: January 14th, 2008 «

 

Prayers go out to Tim Blair (TUE PM UPDATE: “NO SPREAD OF THE MALIGNANCY”)

Posted by: ST on January 14, 2008 at 10:41 pm » 9 Comments

Awesome Aussie blogger Tim Blair announced on his blog today that he has cancer, and he is having “major abdominal surgery” next week. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. (Thanks to ST Aussie reader stackja for the heads up) Tue PM Update: Thanks to ST reader stackja again for pointing out that TB [...]

 

Barack Obama: One smooth operator

Posted by: ST on January 14, 2008 at 8:58 pm » 5 Comments

Three days after his national spokeswoman implied that something “bigger” (read: racism) might have been at play regarding what some are saying have been “racially insensitive remarks” made by the Clintons and their campaign, and two days after it surfaced that his South Carolina spokesperson was circulating a memo detailing how the Clinton campaign was [...]

 

House Speaker Pelosi’s favorite Democrat gets verbally slapped

Posted by: ST on January 14, 2008 at 1:56 pm » 5 Comments

… by the NYT of all places (emphasis added): The Pork King Keeps His Crown The new earmark disclosure rules put into effect by Congress confirm the pre-eminence of Representative John Murtha at procuring eye-popping chunks of pork for contractors he helped put in business in Johnstown, Pa. The Pennsylvania Democrat, a power player on [...]

 

Hillary echoes Obama’s strategy of taking credit for the positive changes in Iraq – PLUS: More racially charged allegations

Posted by: ST on January 14, 2008 at 10:41 am » 9 Comments

First, Barack Obama absurdly claimed in a New Hampshire debate earlier this month that the reason we are seeing much less violence in Iraq is because Iraqis were spurred into action after Democrat threats post-election 2006 to pull troops out of Iraq. Now, a little over a week later, Hillary Clinton, on Meet The Press [...]