Newsweek hires Markos “Daily Kos” Moulitsas as a contributor for their 2008 election coverage
And Jim Hoft has the definitive response to the news.
When wanting to be accepted becomes overwhelming
Tuesday morning, I woke up, got ready for work, and quickly logged online to check my Newsgator feeds before leaving, as I always do, and read this post from Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom, who linked up to commentary by Ace of Spades blogger Jack M. on a disturbing story about a 13 y/o girl named Megan Meier who killed herself after being duped and ridiculed online by two people in her neighborhood who were posing as a young boy that was supposedly interested in her.
Project Valour-IT update
Yesterday was the official “end” of the friendly Project Valour-IT fundraising competiton between military service branches, but as you can see from the graphic on the left, Soldiers Angels’ fell well short of their goals (it was like that for all branches, not just the Marines).
Can we question their patriotism yet?
Time magazine reports on what happened on Veterans Day to one Missouri couple’s display of flags for each of our fallen soldieres in Iraq:
Bush vetoing pork bills like he should have been vetoing all along
His vetoing of the health and education bill Democrats sent to him, which supposedly had “strong bipartisan support,” is obviously welcome from conservatives, considering the significant amount of pork ($10 bil) attached to it. Sure would have been nice to see him rein in spending from the Republican Congresses he had just as much as he has the Dem Congress, tho.
The endurance of love in the face of Alzheimer’s disease
Many of us learned a lot more about Alzheimer’s through the great President Reagan, after it was announced via a handwritten letter he wrote in 1994, at the age of 83, that he had been diagnosed with the disease. The more we have learned over the years and continue to learn about the disease, whether it be through reading about it or watching a loved one suffer from it, the more it was and is understood what a truly devastating disease Alzheimer’s is.