February 3, 2005
Letters project

Friday's New York Times letters to the editor: 13 total letters. 7 anti-Bush. 1 neutral. 2 pro-Bush (yesterday's prediction was 100 percent accurate) 3 non-political letters.

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February 3, 2005
Letters project

Today's New York Times letters to the editor: 14 total letters. All non-partisan. Responses to the State of the Union speech should appear in tomorrow's paper -- I'm going to guess that there will be two pro-Bush letters.

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February 3, 2005
Today's Bible verse

The inspiration for today's Bible verse comes from former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who said: "I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for ..." Matthew 5:43-48: 43 "You have heard that it was said, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.' 44 "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray […]

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February 3, 2005
CNN's big problem

For an incredibly complete account of this which I will be quickly summarizing, check out Captain's Quarters. (Where does he get the time?) In short, CNN's top executive, Eason Jordan, in a forum discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, accused American troops of targeting journalists for assassination. This is the same Eason […]

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February 3, 2005
Hero

The first Medal of Honor for Operation Iraqi Freedom will be awarded to Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith. I encourage everyone to read this account of Sgt. Smith's heroism.

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February 3, 2005
The State of the Union address

You can find the transcript here. Video of it is available here. I've got the video running in another window right now, and for the most part I think the speech is pretty good. President Bush spent a lot of time on Social Security reform. This speech was probably the best time to really get […]

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February 3, 2005
The elite media club

Some White House correspondents are apparently in a tizzy over the presence of Jeff Gannon of Talon News in the briefing room. Talon News is a conservative Web site, and Gannon's questions are biased -- the same as every other reporter's questions except in direction. White House reporters say Gannon has regularly attended daily press […]

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February 3, 2005
The Democrats' response

Unfortunately, I didn't set my DVR to record the president's State of the Union address. I did, however, get home in time to watch the replay of the Democrats' response. *YAWN* I'm not usually one to criticize other peoples' appearance, but Rep. Nancy Pelosi scares the bejeezus out of me. Has she had a botox […]

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February 3, 2005
Memo to Devon

Devon in Searchlight, Nev., I understand from Sen. Harry Reid that you want to be just like him when you grow up. Devon, you're a dork.

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