When you see statements like this starting someone’s post, you just know that there can be no agreement with anything that follows: Newsweek is looking pretty stupid right now. Long story short, Roberts played a big role in stealing the election in Florida in 2000, despite Newsweek assertions to the contrary. There is just no …
Archives for July 2005
FEC and Free Speech
Mike Krempasky at Red State has a new favorite Democrat.
This Just In
Terrorists don’t care about human life. Via Red State, we see that Amnesty International has come to some shocking, albeit belated, conclusions: Iraqi insurgents are committing war crimes that undermine any claim they may have to be fighting a legitimate cause, Amnesty International says. A report by the UK-based group accuses anti-US forces in Iraq …
Almost Forgot
Got done with my morning reads, and I was about to get to work when I realized I had forgotten to put up the Daily Plame Flame War Thread. No new stories in the WaPo or the NYT, so I had to go to the second stringers at the LA Times from several days ago: …
Paging Jerry Falwell
Falwell’s reaction to this should be entertaining: For several years scientists have been finding fossilized embryos of dinosaurs from 80 million to 100 million years ago. They have now uncovered several 190-million-year-old dinosaur embryos, the oldest ever found. The discovery is being reported Friday in the journal Science by a team of paleontologists headed by …
Root Causes?
The NY Times has a long must-read article about a Jordanian on trial for waging jihad that you should read, but this part, in particular, just struck me as chilling: Mr. Horani’s mother, Hesmat Abdul Rahman, recalled that her son had become angrier and angrier as he watched television images of the American invasion. Under …
And They Say I Am Naive
Atrios wants us to be shocked at this: What prompted the committee’s entry into the Schmidt-Hackett race was a comment made by Hackett in a USA Today article published Thursday. Hackett, talking about his service as a marine in Iraq, is quoted as saying, “I’ve said I don’t like the son-of-a-b— that lives in the …