The new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) plans to block committee appointments that elevate Democrat moderates and conservatives into important chairmanships, according to Insight Magazine’s sources within the Democrat National Committee.Their sources claim that Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), a six-term member of Congress, who has cooperated with Republicans on...
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A Hawaii man of Indian descent was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he sold missile-related national defense secrets to the People’s Republic of China. A federal grand jury in Honolulu returned an 18-count indictment against Noshir S. Gowadia, age 62, of Maui, charging him with performing defense related services for the...
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CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS BACK They wear cowboy boots, chew tobacco, love hunting, hate abortion, want less government spending – and some voted for Ronald Reagan. Now they are headed to Congress as Democrats. Although the Democrats’ victory was above all an overwhelming repudiation of the conflict in Iraq, it was also built on the back...
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 Utah: Judge tosses wrongful-death suit against sheriff’s deputy: “A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death suit that claimed a Salt Lake County sheriff’s deputy was “wholy unjustified” in shooting an armed Riverton man who was cornered by a police dog and being bitten by the animal…. “Officers need not acquiesce to an...
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MIDTERM ELECTION COMMENT BY HUGH HEWITT I have to assume that the Dems will get the Senate as well as the House, though Conrad Burns may be able to pull off an upset, in which case I hope the GOP in the Senate reject the silly rules they agreed to the last time the...
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Funky Buddha owner sentenced in shooting : “The owner of a Denver bar who shot a burglar pleaded guilty Tuesday to tampering with evidence, and received a deferred prison sentence with no prison time. Christakes Christou, 60, was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault after he shot Dwayne Stepp, who broke...
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SOME UNBEATABLE LOGIC Who said this? “When the scholars of today discuss good government, many of them say, ‘Give land to the poor and destitute so that those who have no means of livelihood may be provided for.’ Now if men start out with equal opportunities and yet there are a few who, without...
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Jury finds Kansas man not guilty of murder: “Willie Rodriguez asked for it, he got it, and a jury Friday exonerated the man who did it. Deliberating barely two hours, the jury of 10 women and two men acquitted Judd Stephen Hurst of second-degree murder for gunning down Rodriguez, 19, in a gun-waving confrontation...
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Geniuses George W. Bush and Karl Rove had the attitude that their Republican and conservative base (aka “the suckers”) had no choice but to vote GOP. Such arrogance resulted in Bush and Rove having a rude, 1992-style awakening. Immediately after the 2004 election, many Republicans smugly predicted that the GOP would rule – as...
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Amendments to ban gay marriage won approval Tuesday in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Virginia as voters in many states considered ballot measures addressing an array of the nation’s most divisive social issues.A total of 205 measures were on the ballots in 37 states _ ranging from routine bond measures to a riveting contest in...
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ceeFxPCiV50  A newspaperman finally admits he’s so anti-gun that he won’t act to protect his own family.
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Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana, Ohio and Florida and leaving some with little choice but to use paper ballots instead.In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with new touchscreen machines that they couldn’t get...
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Compass Direct News reports the high court of the western state of Gujarat on Monday (November 6) will hear a complaint by tribal Christians of Surat district that their village head has ordered them to demolish their house church. Vasantbhai Somabhai Chaudhary, head of Hindoliya village in Surat district’s Bardoli Taluka area, on October...
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The lamestream media told you: Iran is still sponsoring terrorism, North Korea is still being bad, China is violating civil rights, and people are asking the United States to intervene in Darfur. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: I can’t keep covering the same stories over and over like the lamestream media does. For...
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Monday, July 10, 2006 THE INITIAVE PROCESS IN MASSACHUSETS SKIRTS A CLOSE ONE: GAY LOBBY MUST FACE THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS Today, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the voteonmarriage.org initiative question limiting marriage to one man/one woman did not violate the Massachusetts Constitutional provision that initiative questions should not reverse judicial decisions. http://www.socialaw.com/slip.htm?cid=16338&sid=120 Pick...
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