One of the greats is gone: RIP, Jeane Kirkpatrick
Daniel Freedman has the best tribute post up I’ve seen on the death of former liberal Democrat and US ambassador to the UN under Reagan Jeane Kirkpatrick.
How the far left symbolically spits in the faces of our military
First, an incident of literally spitting in the face of a US soldier. Via Dread Pundit Bluto I read about this disturbing news involving a woman who has been accused of spitting in the face of a Fort Drum soldier:
Friday open thread
Ok ya’ll – today’s gonna be my busy day, so it’s doubtful I’ll be around at all til late this evening. Keep it tuned to Memeorandum for the hot topics being discussed in the blogosphere and I’ll return late this evening to blog about some of ’em.
2006 Weblog Awards voting starts
Click here if ya wanna vote for yours truly in the best of the top 251-500 blogs category. Here’s the main link to vote in some of the other contests. Remember: you can vote once a day, every day, until the competition is over on 11:59 PM ET December 15th.
One of the top ten movie lines of all time
Make sure to turn the sound up for this one to hear the money quote from Bob Hope’s character:
NYC Councilman Charles Barron on Sean Bell’s death: It doesn’t matter that the person who shot him was black, advocates violence against police
A couple of days ago, I wrote about the shooting death of Sean Bell by police officers from the NYPD, and in that piece referenced Heather MacDonald’s write up about the incident which included a little-known fact about the shooting, and that was that the first policeman to take a shot at Bell’s car as it was moving towards them was a black officer, which puts a big dent in the theory that the shooting of Bell was “racially motivated.”