Run, Cindy, run!
Early Saturday I touched briefly on the news regarding Cindy Sheehan considering a run for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat.
Rep. J.D. Hayworth: Immigrants need to embrace U.S. culture
Everytime I’ve seen Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ-5th district) interviewed many times in the past on Fox News and have been extremely impressed with his go-get-’em-tell-it-like-it-is style of talking. A fine example of that can be found here in an opinion piece he wrote for the Arizona Republic newspaper on muliculturalism and how we’ve gotten away from assimilation here over the years – and are moving closer towards grouping ourselves in terms of race, religious beliefs, etc. He’s not advancing an idea of losing our individuality in order for some ‘collective good’, but instead harking back to the days when immigrants who came here became Americans – not just people from another country moving here to live:
About that NYT/CBS poll
… specifically, the one I blogged about earlier this week where 53% of those polled answered that they were ok with warrantless wiretaps when used to fight terrorism:
Hillary to join Kerry and Kennedy in support of Alito filibuster
Breaking with top Democrats, Senator Hillary Clinton has announced that she will join Sens. Kerry and Kennedy in supporting a filibuster for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Via Newsday:
Mayor Nagin may not get his “chocolate city” wish
Find out why here.
LATimes channels Jimmy Carter on Hamas
A few days ago I blogged about an interview former President Jimmy Carter did with CNN in which he questioned the validity of tagging the terrorist group Hamas with the label of “terrorist” in spite of the fact that Hamas actively promotes the wholesale destruction of Israel.