Q: What do you get when you combine lawyers, feminists, and university professors with too much time on their hands? A: People who should be beaten with a stick (but not a stick any bigger than your thumb). This is idiocy (h/t Red State): The pink visitors’ locker room at the University of Iowa’s stadium …
Archives for September 2005
Great Moments in Media
This is great. Nestled in a story on Brown/Blanco’s respective trips to the hill yesterday and today, we find this bolded separation: Nagin faults federal government After which, we see Nagin’s quote: Speaking to reporters Tuesday about Brown’s comments, Nagin said the former FEMA chief was trying to deflect attention. “The federal government, state government …
The Bull Moose on DeLay
The Bull Moose writes: The Moose notes the end of the “revolution”. Tom DeLay will not return as Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Whatever the outcome of his upcoming trial, he is finished as a Republican Leader. He sealed his doom when he suggested that there was no more fat to be cut …
How Long Will He Last?
Does anyone want to place a wager on how long Greg Gutfield is going to last at HuffPo if he keeps throwing grenades like this: was just thinking, if Randall Robinson wasn’t at the Huffpo, WHAT would he be doing? If Gene Stone wasn’t blogging, WHO would he be doing? If Eve Ensler wasn’t here, …
DeLay Indicted
Because things were getting boring, another heated political battle had to come to head this week: A Texas grand jury today indicted Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) on a criminal count of conspiring with two political associates to violate state campaign finance law, and DeLay announced he would temporarily step down as House majority leader. The …
Emergency Room Crisis
Mark Kilmer has a pretty interesting piece on the problems with underfunded hospitals, emergency room doctors, and immigration, all the while advocating for HR 3875, The Access to Emergency Medical Services Act of 2005. It looks to me like the bill addressed the liability issue, but little else, which immediately sets off my early warning …
Captain Fishback
This letter should blow the doors off the inaction by the WH and the Pentagon regarding the abuse charges: Dear Senator McCain: I am a graduate of West Point currently serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Infantry. I have served two combat tours with the 82nd Airborne Division, one each in Afghanistan and …