From San Antonio, Texas: A woman who called in a bomb threat to an airport in an attempt to break up with her boyfriend was sentenced to two years in prison, the U.S. attorney's office said Wednesday. April Wormly, 36, of Hobbs, N.M., also was ordered to pay $19,761 in restitution for phoning in the […]
It was buried at the end of the Associated Press report on the House vote to hold two White House officials in contempt. The House voted Thursday to hold two of President Bush's confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether a purge of federal prosecutors was politically motivated. The first […]
Armed Liberal over at WindsofChange.net has an excellent fisking of The New Republic's explanation of why it has been less than forthcoming the Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair.
GOP Sen. Larry Craig says that he's not going to resign his Senate seat after all in the wake of his guilty plea to playing footsie with a cop in a Minneapolis, Minn., airport bathroom. I was going to say that someone needs to stick a boot up Craig's butt to get him to quit […]
Unindicted co-conspirators the Council on American Islamic Relations issued a demand that GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain appoint a Muslim adviser to his campaign and, if elected, to his White House staff. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on presidential candidate Sen. John McCain to appoint a Muslim campaign advisor and a […]
That's the number that whackjob despot Mahmoud Imadinnerjacket got during his speech/Q&A at Columbia University. Does anyone want to lay odds on the likelihood of a speech given by President Bush at Columbia University getting half that many cheers? What does that say about Columbia University? What does that say about the American left?
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a Paul Krugman fan. But I repeat myself. It turns out that the nutty, conspiracy-theorist University of Florida student that got tased at Sen. John Kerry's talk is a big Paul Krugman fan, and vice versa.
DeGaulle of Dan Rather. Mr. Rather, 75, asserts that the network violated his contract by giving him insufficient airtime on “60 Minutes” after forcing him to step down as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” in March 2005. He also contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the […]
Idris Leppla is a student at Columbia University. Idris Leppla is a moron. Soon that pride turned to anger and fear: after my mom dropped him off at Annapolis, she came home with an acute sense of grief. The only thing she could talk about was how to get him out. In addition to missing […]