Looks like he will get the votes: WASHINGTON General Michael Hayden has the cautious support of Senator Carl Levin in Hayden’s bid to become the nation’s next C-I-A director. Levin is a Michigan Democrat is a key member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which plans to vote on Hayden’s nomination tomorrow afternoon. Levin told Detroit …
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The LA Race
According to the Drudge Report (which on some days is a step below the bathroom wall in terms of reliability), the DNC worked to defeat Mayor Nagin: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) secretly placed political operatives in the city of New Orleans to work against the reelection efforts of incumbent Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin, the …
Bye, Bye Barbaro
I watched this happen Saturday, and it was awful: Barbaro’s racing career is over, but a valiant and costly effort was made Sunday to repair the right hind leg of the horse that sustained a catastrophic ankle break before an audience of millions early in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. On Sunday night at the …
Sunday Thread
Just bought a bike (Gary Fisher Ex-Calibur in case anybody cares) and John has apparently been abducted by Martians. While I kvetch some more about how ridiculously busy I am, not counting when I’m out riding my bike, you can let me know what I missed. Via email from a reader, this story seems particularly …
Friday Beer Blogging – Wrong On So Many Levels
First, a personal note. Some weeks it feels like Friday can’t come soon enough because I read this incredibly cool story somewhere that connects beer with science and the enduring history of human existence and you guys simply won’t believe it. Other weeks it will be Thursday and I feel dry, drained and absent of …
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The National Language
This may be one of the fuzziest write-ups I have ever read: After an emotional debate fraught with symbolism, the Senate yesterday voted to make English the “national language” of the United States, declaring that no one has a right to federal communications or services in a language other than English except for those already …
The Real Da Vinci Code
It seems like everywhere I turn, I am hearing people squeal about how the Da Vinci Code is anti-Christian and more evidence of Hollywood’s anti-Christian bias. Enter Michael Medved, Christianity’s biggest Jewish supporter: MEDVED: I do, but the buzz has turned very decisively negative. When you see that there are people in India who are …