July 9, 2006
Bad news for China

Last week's celebratory Independence Day rocket launches by the North Koreans are putting China in a pickle. China has one client state -- North Korea -- and over the past decade or so they've been willing to let Kim Jong Il throw periodic temper tantrums because the outbursts caused the U.S. more worry than it […]

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July 9, 2006
Al Qaeda's diplomatic pouches

Friday it was revealed that terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay had been using papers and envelopes stamped with "privileged attorney-client material" had been used to orchestrate three suicides at the camp and other assorted plots. In the cell of one of the detainees who died, the authorities said, investigators found a handwritten message from […]

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July 7, 2006
That was then, this is now

Yesterday a Houston court ruled that former Rep. Tom DeLay's recent move to Virginia was a coldly calculated political move to make sure that the GOP would hold his Houston-area seat. DeLay could withdraw from the race, but then Republicans couldn't replace him on the ballot. By moving to Virginia, DeLay made himself ineligible -- […]

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July 6, 2006
You too can be governor of Vermont

Former Vermont governor and current Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean continues to demonstrate that any wacko can run Vermont -- or the Democrat Party. In a ruling today, New York's high court decided that there in no "right" to gay marriage in that state's constitution. This prompted Dean -- who is obviously one of […]

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July 6, 2006
Can't make this up

The lede: A New Zealand peace activist is facing serious assault charges after he allegedly punched a rock singer in London, leaving the man in a coma. The peace activist reportedly spent 3 weeks as a human shield in Iraq. It's apparent that he learned quite a few things from the time spent with his […]

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July 6, 2006
That dog won't hunt

In response to widespread public outrage at its decision to publish details of the government's Terrorist Financial Tracking Program, the New York Times' editor Bill Keller and reporter Eric Lichtblau have tried to defend themselves by pointing out that the program wasn't really secret at all and the terrorists already knew everything about it. Well, […]

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July 5, 2006
Silly frogs

Agence France Presse -- the French equivalent of the Associated Press -- runs an article on those curious Americans and their flag. It's a true epidemic: the red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes banners are everywhere in the United States - on house facades, front lawns, cars and clothes. Hitting an high point on the July […]

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July 4, 2006
Summer blockbusters

I haven't seen too many movies yet this summer in the theaters, X-men 3 was about it, but I'll see the new "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" when it opens this weekend mainly for Keira Knightly. Having said that, someone seriously needs to feed the girl -- that can't be healthy.

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July 4, 2006
4th of July Fireworks

For those of you who missed the fireworks, I've got pictures here for you. These were taken in Escondido's Grape Day Park earlier this evening. First, the Marine Corps Band San Diego played. Then, there were fireworks...after the jump (out of consideration for those of you on slower speed connections).

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July 4, 2006
Any idiot can write for a newspaper

Today's evidence to support the headline is Michael Browing of the Palm Beach Post who writes this in a book review. Instead, for every Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi we can show a Bill O'Reilly, an Ann Coulter, a Rush Limbaugh, a Glenn Beck and a Sean Hannity. Idiocy parades unashamed in the […]

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