Here's a few articles from the past week or so that you really shouldn't miss. The Los Angeles Times story on 2nd Lt. Mark Jennings Daily. John Leo looks at how speech codes on campus have been stifling -- mostly conservative -- speech. Judge Gibson Lee should be recalled after giving eight black youths probation […]
Today the House of representatives voted 246-182 to cut off funding for the Iraq War. Oops. No they didn't. They voted 246-182 for a non-binding resolution disapproving of President Bush's "surge" plan to reduce violence, and kill insurgents and terrorists in Baghdad and the Anbar province. However, you couldn't really tell that from what Nancy […]
Eleven Emory University professors are taking former President and anti-Semite Jimmy Carter to the woodshed over his ever more ridiculous claim that his new book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" was designed to spark debate. Maybe it was, but Carter doesn't want to actually be involved with debating anyone who might challenge his intellectual honesty or […]
Just checked my freezer and there's still no $90,000 in cash in there. Disappointed, I took a $20 out of my wallet, put it in the freezer, closed the freezer door and then opened it again. I just wanted to know a little of what it felt like to be the Democrat representative from Louisiana, […]
It sounds almost Rumsfeldian: Know what you know and know what you don't know. Practical application: I wouldn't go on a TV show or do an interview to detail the intricacies of the Linux operating system. The extent of my knowlege of Linux is a few command line queries left over from the AIX OS […]
This is several days late -- eons by blogospheric standards -- but quite a few posts are going to be because there are things I want to write about, but was unable to due to evil-flu-bug. Some things will get lost by the wayside, but this was one I didn't want to miss. I was […]
Muqtada al-Sadr has reportedly left Iraq for Iran -- like lots of other terrorists. This is probably the next best thing to Sadr pushing up daisies. What are the odds that Bush and his troop surge get any credit for this development. Yes, the answer is somewhere between slim and none.
Mark Tapscott over at the Washington Examiner did a bit of fact-checking on Harry Reid -- something that most of the media has failed to do since the Democrats took control of Congress in January. Feigning pained amazement as only supercillious Washington politicians can, Reid told the assembled journalists a couple of days ago that […]
Though that's what it felt like. I'm recovering from a really nasty bug which had drained me of energy for a day or two before draining me of my stomach contents yesterday. It's just in the past hour or so that I've been able to actually sit up for any period of time. Blogging should […]
If anything disqualifies John "The Hair" Edwards from the presidency of the local Kiwanis club -- let alone the United States -- it's his decision this week to keep on bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. Everyone political watcher initially thought that the initial selection of Marcotte and McEwan to run Edwards' blog was evidence […]