Monthly Archives: November 2007 «

 

Weekend open thread

Posted by: ST on November 30, 2007 at 8:36 pm » 10 Comments

I’ll be doing the Christmas shopping/decorating thing on Saturday . See ya’ll Sunday.

 

Bomb/hostage situation at Hillary’s NH campaign HQ (SITUATION ENDS PEACEFULLY – MAN ARRESTED)

Posted by: ST on November 30, 2007 at 2:09 pm » 16 Comments

Scary situation: ROCHESTER, N.H. – A man has taken people hostage at a New Hampshire campaign office for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, police said Friday. The man claimed to have bomb strapped to him when he walked into the office in Rochester, WHDH-TV reported. WMUR-TV quoted a woman, Lettie Tzizik, saying she spoke [...]

 

Jaw-dropper of the week: Rep Murtha says the surge is working

Posted by: ST on November 30, 2007 at 11:20 am » 7 Comments

John Bresnahan at The Politico examines Murtha’s latest remarks on the surge and contrasts them with defeatist remarks he’s made about the surge in the past. The money quote actually comes at the end, from a Democrat other than Murtha: “This could be a real headache for us,” said one top House Democratic aide, speaking [...]

 

CNN’s Plantgate continues

Posted by: ST on November 30, 2007 at 9:20 am » 8 Comments

I tell ya, the more news that comes out about the liberally biased questioners at CNN’s Republican YouTube debate, the worse they look. Malkin’s latest column addresses the number of questioners who have actually been found out to be Democrats, ‘unaffiliated’ supporters of Democrat policies, or at the very least people who have declared support [...]

 

BDS at New York Public Library: Fake mugshots of Bush, Cheney, etc displayed

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2007 at 8:35 pm » 3 Comments

Ah, ya gotta love the “class” on display here. Just proves all over again that “art” is in the eye of the beholder.

 

The Packers at the Cowboys

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2007 at 7:13 pm » 50 Comments

I have no dog in this fight, but I know several ST readers and commenters who have been looking forward to this battle between the two 10-1 teams – so use this as an open thread for your comments on the game. And remember, no “unsportsmanlike conduct” allowed Gametime is 8pm (or is it 8:15?), [...]

 

Breaking: Sudan finds teacher guilty of ‘inciting religious hatred’ – sentenced to 15 days and deportation

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2007 at 1:35 pm » 3 Comments

The AP reports: KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) – A defense lawyer says a British teacher has been found guilty of inciting religious hatred and sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation from Sudan. Gillian Gibbons went on trial earlier today for by letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad, a crime punishable by up [...]

 

Henry Hyde passes away at the age of 83

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2007 at 11:33 am » Comments Off

Thoughts and prayers go out to his family. Via AP: WASHINGTON (AP) – Former Rep. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who steered the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and championed government restrictions on the funding of abortions, has died. He was 83. [...] Hyde retired from Congress at the end of the last session. Days [...]

 

Jason Whitlock on the murder of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2007 at 9:37 am » 5 Comments

Awesome-as-always sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who was a lion amongst sheep with his outspoken and candid commentary on phoney race hustlers and the real problems facing the black community during the Don Imus controversy has penned another great column on race in response to what he sees as misplaced blame being thrown about by the [...]

 

Stem-cell research breakthroughs: How soon will it take before the secular left shifts their “pro-science” arguments?

Posted by: ST on November 28, 2007 at 9:47 pm » 17 Comments

Joseph Bottum writes a must-read piece today for the Wall Street Journal in which he discusses the breakthroughs we’ve seen recently on the non-embryonic stem cell research front, and how that could re-shape the secular left’s views on the importance of science in finding cures for diseases. In essence, he predicts, since we’re seeing so [...]