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Sunday, October 30
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The Weekly Standard's Scrapbook bursts TNR's bubble: When Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald released the indictment of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby Friday afternoon, staffers at the New Republic were so thrilled to learn that one of their articles had been cited in the text of the indictment that they mentioned it in three separate posts on their new blog, "The Plank." The Standard continues with this after quoting the relevent passage: It's perhaps understandable that any magazine's staffers might want to make the most out of some free publicity provided courtesy of the U.S. Department of Justice. But surely they can't really want people to reread the article. As anyone who followed the Joe Wilson saga subsequently discovered, every critical claim in the paragraph above is false.
Posted - 10/30/2005 05:24:42 PM - Permalink | |
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Wednesday, October 26
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Christopher Hitchens writes about recent evidence that has come to light about George Galloway's Oil for Food bribes: Calling Galloway's Bluff - The Senate uncovers a smoking gun.
Posted - 10/26/2005 07:20:00 PM - Permalink | |
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PRNewswire via Yahoo!: Ratings Gap Between Rush Limbaugh and Liberal Talkers (aka Al Franken) Looms Large
Posted - 10/26/2005 06:56:43 PM - Permalink | |
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Chris Matthews needs to rename his show after deciding to go all Rove/Libby/Leak-Case all the time - he's going on two solid weeks of shows totally devoted to this story. Several of his guests have said, "We don't really know anything," which is true, but this hasn't slowed Matthews down one bit. The Political Teen has a great montage of Matthews on a Rove-Libby spree. Matthews has opened his show with gems such as "A fever-pitch week now of developments in the CIA leak investigation ends with heightened anticipation as special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald may well seek indictments next week," and the Watergate-esque "What did the president know and when did he know it?" And a fever pitch is exactly what what Matthews is in. Another choice Matthews blurb from Oct.13th: I guess there is a question about the attitude of the special prosecutor and what he feels these people are like. Does he feel he is up some bad guys, some arrogant bastards in the White House who think they can just lie to him, of he thinks they think they are better than him. I'm trying to figure out the motivation of the prosecutor. [emphasis added]
Posted - 10/26/2005 06:45:45 PM - Permalink | |
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Tuesday, October 25
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Two stories give a good update on the ongoing ID trial in Harrisburg, Pa. :
Posted - 10/25/2005 05:22:07 PM - Permalink | |
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Monday, October 24
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Adam Lawson points to an ABC News story on Prussian Blue, along with this first observation on the neo-nazi teeni-boppers: "Of course, if these girls were black and praising everything African then the liberal media would be saying how wonderful it was that these teenagers were taking pride in their heritage." I would tend to agree, but on closer examination, singing about Hitler rising again, victory in a bloody race war and such needs to be condended. I mean, its great to have Irish pride or black pride and the like, but killing all Jews and black is definitely warped. Will ABC News treat Dr. Kamau Kambon's remarks as equally disturbing?
Posted - 10/24/2005 05:22:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Must reads: John Fund on the Trail and the Prowler: There has been a lot of talk about how poorly SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers performed in her private meetings. One U.S. Senator who met with her early in the process says he asked her what he considered to be the easiest question she will get throughout the whole confirmation process: "Why do you want to serve on the Unites States Supreme Court?"
Miers's response was what the Senator called "something you'd expect from a Miss America contestant." The poor performance prompted the Senator to meet with Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, who passed along the Senator's concerns to the White House.
Posted - 10/24/2005 04:50:46 PM - Permalink | |
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Thursday, October 20
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George Neumayr writes about the Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe, a champion if ID, at The American Spectator.
Posted - 10/20/2005 07:57:30 PM - Permalink | |
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From Brit Hume's Political Grapevine English Only?
An Ohio man is fighting a state regulatory ruling that ordered him to remove a sign reading, "For Service, Speak English" from the window of his tavern. The Ohio Civil Rights Commission decided earlier this month that the sign violates discrimination laws. But the owner of the Pleasure Inn in the town of Mason is appealing, insisting that the tavern serves everyone.
So, why the sign? He says he has no Spanish-speaking employees, which can make communication difficult. If the ruling stands, the tavern could be forced to take down the sign, pay for ads promoting nondiscrimination, and enroll its employees in diversity and cultural sensitivity courses. Cultural sensitivity?!?!? The PC police out in full force.
Posted - 10/20/2005 07:02:33 PM - Permalink | |
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Sunday, October 16
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Via RedState, a judge in Oregon overturned a voter-passed property compensation law as unconstitutional on Friday.
Posted - 10/16/2005 11:29:09 AM - Permalink | |
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Monday, October 10
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Does this matter? Jerome Corsi reports at WorldNetDaily that the firm Harriet Miers was managing at the time contributed to Hillary's election in 2000. This is quite typical of businesses, but... ...although they did give to Tom DeLay's campaign, the contributions to Democrats outweigh the ones to Republicans by almost 2 to 1. I think she is the wrong choice for many resons, this is just one more stick on the fire.
Posted - 10/10/2005 06:23:31 AM - Permalink | |
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Friday, October 7
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George Neumayr on the Miers nomination: "...[H]er substantial involvement in the American Bar Association suggests she's spent far more time in the company of judicial activists than in the company of unfashionable originalists whose understanding of the Constitution corresponds to the common sense of ordinary Americans."
Posted - 10/07/2005 02:20:24 PM - Permalink | |
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Thursday, October 6
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It was on C-Span's Wahington Journal. Watch the video here (Realplayer). Frum made a well laid out case on why the nomination of Harriet Miers has been a complete bungle. Also check out David Frum's Diary at on National Review Online.
Posted - 10/06/2005 08:06:49 PM - Permalink | |
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Wouldn't it be funny? Mark Levin has a unique perspective on this - for this we can thank those conservatives, like John McCain and George Will, who would not back using the so-called "nuclear option". Bush believes he has to go stealth, fearing a Democrat filibuster. The Wapo reports Conservatives Confront Bush Aides, and Drudge is reporting: Bill Kristol/FOXNEWS on Harriet Miers: 'I'm not convinced she's going to make it, honestly... Maybe she would do the president a favor by stepping aside'...
Posted - 10/06/2005 05:56:01 PM - Permalink | |
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Michelle Malkin has details on this story involving a Marine named Leandro Aragoncillo, "a naturalized American of Filipino descent who worked for Vice President Dick Cheney (and also Al Gore)" that worked at the White House for almost three years. ABC reports, "...Officials say the classified material, which Aragoncillo stole from the vice president's office, included damaging dossiers on the president of the Philippines. He then passed those on to opposition politicians planning a coup in the Pacific nation."
Posted - 10/06/2005 06:21:42 AM - Permalink | |
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Power Line has some new info that came out yesterday about Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle. Apparently Earle has been running this stuff by jury after jury, ignoring a "no-bill" that was returned last Friday. In related news, the foreman of the grand jury that recently handed down the conspiracy charge on Delay, former sheriff's deputy William Gibson, has said his mind was already made up before he saw any evidence. He was mad about ads that he saw a few years ago that he thinks were unfair. The MSM is, of course leaving this bombshell. The Washington Times had this: the foreman of the first grand jury, which returned the campaign-finance conspiracy indictment, said yesterday that his vote to indict was based on TV commercials that he disliked and were run by a Texas business group in 2002 and not on any evidence presented to the grand jury. "My decision was based upon those, not based upon what happened in the grand jury room," William Gibson told Austin radio station KLBJ. "They were stating their positions, and I could state my position by saying I don't like that."
Mr. DeLay's supporters e-mailed the transcript and an audio clip of the radio interview to journalists and others yesterday as evidence that something was wrong with the process. [emphasis added] This calls into question other indictments that involved Delay's and this jury foreman. Update- The Huston Chronicle adds some new info into the mix, that William Gibson worked with a Democrat candidate that was defeated as a result of these same ads that he considered unfair: William Gibson, the foreman of the grand jury that returned the first indictment against DeLay, said in an interview with Austin radio station KLBJ on Wednesday that he was friends with a Democratic candidate who had been defeated by the corporately funded ad campaign run by the Texas Association of Business in 2002.
James Sylvester, one of the losing Democratic candidates who has sued the business group, worked at the Travis County sheriff's office. Gibson is retired from that same office.
Gibson said newspaper stories about the TAB's activities, which were coordinated with TRMPAC, convinced him that improper political activity had occurred before he ever was on the grand jury. So, not only is Earle a partisan Democrat, but the jury seems to be as well. El Rushbo has more and the clip of the Gibson's radio interview where he admits his mind was already made up.
Posted - 10/06/2005 06:10:00 AM - Permalink | |
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Tuesday, October 4
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Was the real target the 84,000 football fans nearby? Mark Tapscott asks Why Aren't We Being Told More Facts About the OKlahoma Suicide Bomber? What are the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force Investigating?Who was Joel Henry Hinrichs III? HT: MM
Posted - 10/04/2005 06:29:43 PM - Permalink | |
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A press release at Yahoo! Newsreads 85 Scientists Join Together in Urging Court to Protect Academic Freedom and Not Limit Research Into Intelligent Design Theory: Eighty-five scientists have filed an Amicus Brief in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial asking the Judge to "affirm the freedom of scientists to pursue scientific evidence wherever it may lead" and not limit research into the scientific theory of intelligent design. Not all the signers are proponents of intelligent design, but agree "that protecting the freedom to pursue scientific evidence for intelligent design stimulates the advance of scientific knowledge." [emphasis added] The release notes the signers include such notable scientists as Dr. Phillip Skell of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Lyle H. Jensen a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Dr. Russell W. Carlson Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Executive Technical Director, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia. This release comes from the Discovery Institute.
Posted - 10/04/2005 06:10:22 AM - Permalink | |
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Pro-troop San Francisco talk radio host Melanie Morgan has been fired. Morgan also co-chairs the organization Move America Forward and helped organize and led the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" tour. WND reports: Morgan noted her firing comes on the heels of the termination of another talk-show host who worked for an ABC station, Michael Graham of WMAL in Washington, D.C.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Graham was fired after refusing to apologize for making comments linking Islam with terrorism.
Posted - 10/04/2005 05:56:18 AM - Permalink | |
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Monday, October 3
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AP via Yahoo! News: " President Bush has chosen Harriet Miers, White House counsel and a loyal member of the president's inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official said Monday." Is this for sure? Last time the word was that Bush had chosen Edith Jones, aka "the female Scalia" (or was it Edith Clement), only to have Bush announce his nominee to be John Roberts (a great choice to be sure). I'll believe it when it comes out of Bush's mouth.
Posted - 10/03/2005 06:26:52 AM - Permalink | |
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