So a woman’s right to choose is now on its way to becoming a thing of the past (anyone know what odds are being offered that Roe versus Wade will be overturned in the next five years?).
I don’t know what you are doing to console yourself, but I’m falling back on the last […]
(Advance Copy)
The best part is, it’s a Google bomb. If you google “state of the union address”, the first link that comes up is
2006 State of the Union Address (Advance Copy) - Chicago Sun-Times - 2 hours ago
and this is the link it […]
Democrats took one to the solar plexus on Monday, and it wasn’t pretty. I am encouraged by the anecdotal evidence of rammed switchboards and the genuine emotion expressed by probably tens of thousands of blog readers and their friends, but it’s difficult to look at the unsuccessful filibuster as anything but a total loss. […]
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (Fall 2002):
“If you [worry about just] the cost, the money, Iraq is a very different situation from Afghanistan…Iraq has oil. They have financial resources.”
Paul Wolfowitz at a Hearing of the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, (3/27/03):
“There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be […]
on NSA wiretapping:
If you are generating leads from persons being held in secret prisons or if the info is obtained thru torture, then it makes it difficult to make a truthful declaration before a judge. Why not lie to the FISA court? That’s called perjury. I suspect this explains the real motive for the […]
Wolf Blitzer: Super Genius
Download Blitzer-Ensor.mp3
(Clip courtesy of Blogenlust)
Reuters:
The Republican-led Senate on Monday defeated a Democratic bid to block Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito — clearing the way for confirmation of the 55-year-old conservative who could move the high court to the right.
The needed 60 votes were mustered in the 100-member Senate to approve a motion to end debate on President Bush’s nominee. […]
It won’t come as a shock to anyone that we don’t think much of Democratic elected officials. Sure there are exceptions, but not many. We watched closely as they bungled the politics of the 2000 Florida recount and continued to stand with the President long after it became clear that he was using […]
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Reuters asks: Is there a new member of the Bush family?
The good news is that they’re not talking about Pervez Musharraf. Not that it wasn’t considered. George did propose to Laura that they adopt Pervez. And Laura was distinctly leaning towards “okay”. But she turned that into a firm no, when […]
President George W. Bush (1/26/06):
I like the competition of ideas.
NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen (1/29/06):
The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
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“They feel their […]
