Archive for June, 2005

If Howard Dean Were to Update the Declaration of Independence »

Liberals and Losers: Leading the Charge to Defeat »

Islamists Bets on EMP Attack? »

Today, 5 individuals were found guilty of election fraud. As far as known, these 5 are the first charged and convicted of election fraud from the 2004 election. One of the individuals was a party poss for the area in which the fraud took place. With all the talk of Ohio, one wonders if the... »

Global Alien Smuggling Generates Billions in Profits »

“Student gets F grade for mentioning God.” The instructor in question “has not been reached for comment, but Judy Solis, chair of the English department, says Hauf was given three options: submit the report with God included, make revisions and edit out the G-word, or rewrite the entire report.” »

President Bush has offered the case, once again, that the war in Iraq is part of the war on terror, and the response to 9/11. It must be noted, though, there are no ties between Iraq and 9/11. Except, of course, for: …continued in full post… 1) The people we are fighting in Iraq are Islamist... »

Since the Senate doesn’t have the guts to work on any kind of an intellegent Social Security reform package, the House Republicans have decided to do it themselves, and hopefully will vote on it sometime this year. The cornerstone of the proposed legislation will be using the existing Social Security surplus to fund private... »

Gordon Cucullu looks at the abuse that goes on every day at Guantanamo. Many of the orange jumpsuit-clad detainees fight their captors at every opportunity. They attack guards whenever the soldiers enter their cells, trying to reach up under protective face masks to gouge eyes and tear mouths. They make weapons and try to stab... »

Several hundred recipes prepared for the inmates at the camp are to be published next month in “The Gitmo Cookbook,” including dishes such as mustard-and-dill baked fish and honey-and-ginger chicken breast. Laura Curtis, one of the book’s editors, says the recipes would “make a point about how well we are treating these people.” Freed prisoners... »

A man whose child molestation conviction was oveturned because a judge ruled the witnesses had been coerced may collect a bundle. He has to prove that he was, in fact, innocent, and that “he didn’t contribute to his own arrest.” But if he can do that, he’s entitled to $100 for each day... »

Ah, yes, Potomac Fever, that affliction of the officials described generations ago by presidents, authors, insiders and now yours truly. Distinguished from Potomac Horse Fever, or Erlichiosis, Potomac Fever is all around us in the form of official largesse, confiscation (sometimes of private property) distinct signs of personal isolation, general indifference, and intrusive, because-we-say-so politics.... »

(Hat tip: Brown and Caldwell e-mail.) I know everyone’s been preoccupied with Karl Rove engaging in definition of character, and with Bush’s trampling all over the Sacred Ground of the World Trade Center, but yesterday, a scientist involved with Yucca Mountain testified before Congress about some interesting e-mails. Well, someone might think it’s important. “I have never... »

Not sure if it’s genuine burnout or that I’m just growing increasingly tired of having to engage in endless repetition, having to come up with new arguments against the same old liberal recitations. It’s getting so old; I find it hard to get motivated to write, despite this column being event-driven. Hard to get motivated…... »

Have you ever been an ambulance driver and gotten the feeling you were being followed? Many of them in Lansing, Michigan felt that way yesterday as former VP candidate John Edwards was in town to call for Michigan to raise its minimum wage. Living a scant few miles upwind from the site of Edwards’ speech,... »

Gay Marriage Now Legal in Spain »

ABC pulls Gay reality show after groups complain »

Americans who are stricter about their religious doctrine are actually more likely to see films rated R for violence than those who are less conservative… »

Follow me, people. The US Military is an arm of the government, is it not? Money it spends, then, is government money. Public money. So – what is this business about providing prayer rugs, Qu’rans, and such to prisoners? Is this not an establishment of religion? Time to end it. »

As a follow up to this, it now appears that Canada will only ban bulk sales of medications to the United States but not sales to individuals. Since state programs like Illinois Rx involve the participating patients being shipped their medications individually, the Canadian ban on bulk sales would not affect the program. The... »