The wire is reporting that Miers has withdrawn her nomination, and that is not surprising, considering she neglected to return her questionnaire revisions to the Senate last night. The President has ‘reluctantly’ accepted her withdrawal, and Red State has the President’s statement. Personally, I am mad at the White House for this nomination. It was …
Archives for October 2005
Momma Bear Has Died
Momma Bear, the sweet lady who actually designed the graphic to the right and spent hours chatting with me, e-mailing back and forth helping Kathy Kinsley design my old site, has died. And that stinks. *** Update *** Andrew Ian Dodge also has a tribute to Momma Bear. Dean Esmay has his thoughts here.
The Latest from the PC Police
In today’s politically correct world, any observation of race can be called ‘racism’: Air Force coach Fisher DeBerry was reprimanded by the top commander of the academy on Wednesday after making statements about black athletes and recruiting. DeBerry issued a public apology, saying “I realize the things I said might have been hurtful to many …
DeLay’s Offensive Defense Fund
Not two weeks ago, I noted the following: So you have several indictments against you for nefarious fund-raising deeds, to include a charge of money-laundering. If your first instrinct is to launch a website to solicit donations for your legal defense, you might be Rep. Tom DeLay. For whatever reason, most of the people who …
The Latest Plame Rumors
Here is the latest rumor I have read: Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has asked the grand jury investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to indict Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove on charges of perjury and obstruction of …
2000 Dead
Andrew Sullivan discusses the 2000th death in Iraq, and it is about where I stand: If someone had told me three years ago that by October 2005, Saddam Hussein’s murderous tyranny would be over for ever, that Iraq would have a new constitution that emerged from a democratic process and that it will soon have …
More on Miers
Dale Franks confronts Hugh Hewitt’s continued insistence that Miers is the right person for the job, and Jeff Goldstein cooks up another treat. In other Miers-related news, if this snippet of the blogosphere’s opinion regarding Miers can be generalized to the larger public, Miers is in trouble. As I write this, there are 255 blogs …