FEMA credit cards got heavy workout in Katrina’s wake - USAT (11/2/05)
Twenty boats, trailers and related supplies for search-and-rescue work in New Orleans. The boats were sold by Big Boat Movers of Lufkin, Texas, which quickly put together the deal over the weekend of Sept. 10. Cost: $177,025.
Offers to help Katrina victims went unused - […]
Bill Frist, M.D. (3/17/05):
…that footage, to me, depicts something very different than persistent vegetative state.
Bill Frist, M.D. (3/17/05)
“I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office. “She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli.”
Bill Frist, M.D. (1/29/06):
“I didn’t […]
this story covers both halves of “no homo:”
Army officials are investigating allegations that members of the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division appear on a gay pornography Web site, a spokeswoman said Friday.
No ad homonym.
Oh Ann Coulter, you truly are a riot:
Coulter had told the Philander Smith College audience Thursday that more conservative justices were needed on the Supreme Court to change the current law on abortion.
Stevens is one of the court’s most liberal members.
“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee,” Coulter said. “That’s […]
Someone wants to run for President again:
Sen. John Kerry will attempt a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
“Judge Alito’s confirmation would be an ideological coup on the Supreme Court.”
It seems Kerry decided to grow a spine at exactly the same time he stopped buying his speeches at Costco. […]
People are going around saying that by releasing five women prisoners in Iraq, we have negotiated with terrorists.
That is just nonsense! So here I am to lend Scott McClellan a helping hand.
There is no evidence we negotiated, read my lips, NONE. What we did was capitulate. And no […]
Press Conference of the President (1/26/06):
Q Mr. President, though — this is a direct follow up to that — the FISA law was implemented in 1978 in part because of revelations that the National Security Agency was spying domestically. What is wrong with that law if you feel you have to […]
Your President George W. Bush (1/26/06):
Obviously, people were not happy with the status quo. The people are demanding honest government. The people want services. They want to be able to raise their children in an environment in which they can get a decent education and they can find health care.
*Concurrent Update: He […]
except when we do.
By this point, we’ve all been inundated by details of the whole NSA domestic spying/warrantless eavesdropping controversy (or, in current administration parlance, the “terrorist surveillance program”). Don’t expect that to change anytime soon, especially as the administration has decided to make a potential liability into a strength and is aggressively pushing back against the criticism […]
