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Friday night Star Spangled Banner

Posted by: ST on March 28, 2008 at 8:00 pm » 6 Comments

Let’s hear it for the “Cactus Cuties“! They sang it at a Texas Tech vs Texas basketball game back in January. They sounded great! If this is the future of America, I’ll rest a little bit easier tonight Via ST reader Karl.

 

GWB-hater to play GHW Bush in Oliver Stone “film”

Posted by: ST on March 28, 2008 at 7:39 pm » 9 Comments

Variety Magazine reports: Director Oliver Stone has set James Cromwell to play George Herbert Walker Bush and Ellen Burstyn to play former first lady Barbara Bush in “W,” a drama about the formative years of their son, President George W. Bush. Van Helsing reminds us that Cromwell, who played Jack Bauer’s father on 24, had [...]

 

Tonight’s NCAA tourney action (UPDATE: DAVIDSON WINS!!)

Posted by: ST on March 28, 2008 at 6:53 pm » Comments Off

There are four games total this evening, but the one North Carolinians will be most keen on watching is the 7:10 game, which sees the #10 Davidson Wildcats take on #3 Wisconsin. Davidson is a North Carolina town that is about a 20-25 minute drive from Charlotte. Needless to say, the town is going absolutely [...]

 

42 Dems running for Congress vow to push for an “immediate drawdown” in Iraq if elected

Posted by: ST on March 28, 2008 at 3:42 pm » 5 Comments

The Washington Post reports on the cut and runners-in training (h/t: HH): More than three dozen Democratic congressional candidates banded together yesterday to promise that, if elected, they will push for legislation calling for an immediate drawdown of troops in Iraq that would leave only a security force in place to guard the U.S. Embassy [...]

 

Friday open thread

Posted by: ST on March 28, 2008 at 7:21 am » 7 Comments

I’m getting ready to head out and will likely not have network access of any sort for at least half the day, if not all of it (long story). Brian at Liberty Pundit is taking a bit of a “blog break” but has graciously agreed to keep an eye on the moderation que this morning [...]

 

Quote of the week

Posted by: ST on March 27, 2008 at 10:25 pm » 17 Comments

Right on: Do you know why these “progressive” Christians want to “progress” right through the tenets of Christianity into the grim world of neither-faith-nor-reason but self-actualizing instinct and “hopeful” feelings? Why they want Jesus with no Christ, God with a small g and all that? Can you take a guess? If you said “it is [...]

 

VIDEO: Keith Olbermann continues to give new meaning to the term “despicable jerk”

Posted by: ST on March 27, 2008 at 7:43 pm » 1 Comment

Just when you think this popular hero of the Nutroots couldn’t get any worse comes this: Leave it to liberals to pile on Sen. John McCain with cheap shots about his age, and we’re not talking making jokes about him serving in the Civil War or what not. Mocking John McCain’s age, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann [...]

 

VIDEO: The Goracle claims that if you don’t believe in man-made gw, you’re no better than a wacko conspiracy theorist/flat earther

Posted by: ST on March 27, 2008 at 7:19 pm » 5 Comments

CBS’ Lesley Stahl recently interviewed The Goracle for a 60 Minutes segment that will air this coming Sunday. As per the norm, when asked about skeptics of the theory of man-made global warming, Gore pulled out the ol’ insult book to disparage those who have dared to disagree with his ‘expertise’: (CBS) Self-avowed “P.R. agent [...]

 

LA Times in the middle of a fake documents scandal of their own

Posted by: ST on March 27, 2008 at 9:37 am » 1 Comment

I’m still swamped, but wanted to link up quickly to Patterico’s post on the LAT’s admission that a recent article they wrote on a 1994 attack on murdered rapper Tupac Shakur was based on, in part … fabricated documents. And news outlets still wonder why so many have become skeptical of what they report?

 

Congressman McDermott criticized Bush on Iraqi soil – on Saddam’s dime

Posted by: ST on March 26, 2008 at 10:47 pm » 9 Comments

This story has erupted in the blogosphere: Saddam Hussein’s money paid for Democrat Congressmen McDermott, Bonior, and Thompson to visit Iraq back in October 2002. That’s when McDermott made his controversial remarks where he urged us to give Hussein the benefit of the doubt but to mistrust Bush because, to McDermott, Bush was willing to [...]