Is there anything they won’t use as a political bludgeon against this administration: Jackboot Nation So I guess calling the president a “doodiehead” would mean a DOJ investigation? God, things are getting out of hand. Secret Service agents questioned a high school student about anti-war drawings he did for an art class, one of which …
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Justice Served
Good: A Ramona man maliciously ticketed over five years by California Highway Patrol officers has been awarded $4.5 million by a Superior Court jury. Attorneys for Steve Grassilli, 44, said he was targeted by the officers after he lodged a complaint against one of them. After yesterday’s verdict, several jurors said they hoped the millions …
Cheney Case
So what happens if (when, I predict), the Supreme Court rules that Cheney was right to assert executive privilege in the energy commission case? Will the loudmouths using this as a bludgeon admit they were wrong, or will they simply resort to attacking the court and trying to make it seem like this was all …
The Lies Just Keep Continuing
Really, now. The Democrats are now such spinmeisters and liars they are sucked into their own deceit: Like many people, I’m puzzled that the Bushies have decided to unleash the attack dogs on the issue of John Kerry’s Vietnam service. It’s possible, of course, that they know something I don’t and have some devious trick …
Here We Go Again
It has been about a month, so it is time for another Democrat blogger to take another stab at the “Really we are moderates but Bush is so extreme that we just sound like hostile lunatics.” This time, it is Ezra’s turn: The problem is, moderate no longer relies on your politics, it rests on …
A Kerry Tidbit From the Past
Here is a John Kerry quote that appeared in the Bethany College Student newspaper, the Tower, in 1971: John Kerry, the presumed Democratic nominee for president, was quoted by a student newspaper at West Virginia’s Bethany College in 1971 as saying, “Our democracy is a farce; it is not the best in the world.” Kerry …
Thank You
The nephew of my good friend and neighbor from my hometown, Bethany, WV, was killed in action in Iraq: Michael J. Smith Sr., the grieving father of a local man killed in Iraq, spoke Monday about his son’s wish to wear a police uniform but who first chose a uniform of a soldier. Marine Lance …