Monthly Archives: January 2006 «

 

SOTU liveblogging

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 8:57 pm » 26 Comments

I won’t be liveblogging it (putting together a TV stand tonight) but I am going to be watching it. Michelle Malkin has a list of bloggers who will be liveblogging it so if you can’t get to a TV, check out those bloggers or visit CSPAN for a video link. Consider this an open thread [...]

 

Cindy Sheehan to be in audience during the SOTU

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 7:57 pm » 22 Comments

Thanks to House Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-6th District -CA) . Via

 

Excerpts from the President’s State of Union Address

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 6:26 pm » 5 Comments

Via the AP: “In this decisive year, you and I will make choices that determine both the future and the character of our country. We will choose to act confidently in pursuing the enemies of freedom or retreat from our duties in the hope of an easier life. We will choose to build our prosperity [...]

 

Helping out a blogger in need

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 4:07 pm » 2 Comments

My friend and fellow blogger Brian at Iowa Voice is asking for some financial help. He lost his job last month, and the start date on his new job has been pushed back for another month. Bills are due, and he is unable to pay them – his electricity is due today and will likely [...]

 

The Alito confirmation vote

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 11:09 am » 8 Comments

Matt Margolis is liveblogging the Alito confirmation vote. Interesting stuff going on this morning in the Senate. Of course there are still some Democratic Senators voicing their, um, ‘displeasure’, at the Alito nomination, but in the end, he’s still expected to be confirmed. Update I: I’m having trouble accessing that B4B link directly – if [...]

 

ABC cancels “Commander In Chief” show

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 10:53 am » 26 Comments

Perhaps America wasn’t interested in being prepped for a Hillary run after all? (Hat tip: Rightwinged.com, who you should bookmark – good stuff there all the time) Update 2/27/06: See the comments section for an update to this story – apparently the show has been put on “hiatus” with the last four episodes in the [...]

 

The “hidden biases” survey

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 9:53 am » 40 Comments

Yesterday in the thread I started about Rep. J.D. Hayworth’s (R-AZ-5th district) marvelous opinion piece on multiculturalism and assimilation, the comments section of that post got sidetracked when a commenter attacked the motivations and character of those who agreed with Hayworth’s observations by saying such talk was usually only an attempt to pander to the [...]

 

“Big Five” refer Iran’s nuke file to Security Council

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 8:46 am » 10 Comments

And Iran’s response is that this referral means that diplomacy is over. Via the AP: Iran struck back Tuesday at the Big Five’s decision to refer the country’s nuclear file to the Security Council, saying the move has no legal justification and would be the end of diplomacy. At a London meeting that lasted into [...]

 

RIP, Coretta Scott King

Posted by: ST on January 31, 2006 at 8:21 am » 3 Comments

Coretta Scott King, wife of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., passed away in her sleep last night. She was 78. You can read more about the life of Mrs. King here. Check out La Shawn Barber’s post about Mrs. King as well.

 

Dems to Dean: where’s the money?

Posted by: ST on January 30, 2006 at 6:50 pm » 31 Comments

Looks like the Doctor of Disology is in a bit of a pickle with other leaders in the Democratic party: Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are privately bristling over Howard Dean’s management of the Democratic National Committee and have made those sentiments clear after new fundraising numbers showed he has spent nearly all the committee’s [...]