Archive » 2005 » May

I haven’t forgotten this GOP abomination . Neither have a group of young Ohioans who have launched a website and campaign to provide their blubbering U.S. Senator some, uh, emotional support. It’s called Console George and they’re asking people to send tissues to Sen. Voinovich. Hah! The site will post photos of the tissues you […]

President Bush’s response to a question about Guantanamo Bay at his press conference this afternoon was woefully inadequate, and not just because he flubbed the word “dissemble.” While he rightfully criticized Amnesty International’s hyperbolic report on alleged abuses at Gitmo as “absurd,” I don’t think he defended our detention policies and practices vigorously or articulately […]

1044am. Our economy is strong, but we need to work together to make sure we have a prosperous economy…More Americans are working today than ever before. Home ownership is at all-time high…
[Lists four agenda items.]
1) Finish work on the energy bill.
2) Federal budget. Spending bills. Reining in mandatory spending.
3) Ratify CAFTA.
4) Social security reform (Note: […]

CNN is celebrating its 25th anniversary all week. Here are just a few of the “defining moments” the cable news network won’t be toasting:

The bogus Operation Tailwind report
CNN in bed with Saddam Hussein
CNN’s Ted Turner mocks his own Catholic employees as “Jesus freaks”
CNN-n-Soros
Easongate
***
Bloggers covering CNN’s anniversary events from Atlanta: Brian Stelter, John Hinderaker

…have banded together to form “The Cotillion.” Start here and follow all the links.
Update: Bookmark here.

Sometimes, “art” is nothing more than hatred wrapped in vulgarity framed with stupidity hung on a wall.
Like many of you, I read the this Drudge-linked story last week describing a vulgar anti-Bush painting that depicted the president getting sodomized by a Saudi over a barrel of oil. There was something missing, though. The online edition […]

…until I read this.

A new state report shows the abortion rate in Wisconsin is at its lowest since the state began tracking abortions in 1974, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin was one of the states that professor Glenn Stassen said was experiencing an increase in abortions. He later retracted that claim, but his now-discredited conclusions were […]

The Washington Post editorial board likes President Bush’s proposal to adjust how Social Security benefits are indexed:
IS PRESIDENT BUSH advocating cruel cuts in Social Security? Consider these calculations by the Urban Institute’s C. Eugene Steuerle: Government-provided retirement benefits for the average couple retiring in 1960 amounted to $195,000. Today, that amount has grown to $710,000 […]

Legacy.com has set up a moving tribute page to honor service members who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. The company set up the site free of charge and launched it in March. The Guest Book sections are must read. Well over 19,000 Guest Book entries from readers have been posted since the site […]

Frank J. and the crew at IMAO have put together their first podcast (with handy MP3 link for the iPod-less among us). Topics: unnamed sources, Springfield Mil-Spec 1911 review, fun facts about the 50 states, etc. Check ‘em out.

AP neglects to mention the party affiliation of Tennessee state senator John Ford, who resigned after being placed under house arrest in an FBI corruption sting. Hint: he ain’t a Republican. (This earlier AP story I linked to posted at the NY Times has now rectified the omission.)
Update: Ranting Right Wing Howler does a compare […]

Enjoy…
- Yet another liberal talk radio show… this time it’s Al Sharpton. Brian Maloney provides background and explains why it will fail.
- More dismal ratings for Air America in Boston and San Francisco (scroll to end of post).
- PoliPundit wonders if John Kerry really signed his SF-180 form. Tempus Fugit says the signing of the […]

Blackfive: Opening the gates of heaven
Mudville Gazette: Sacred words
“I want to fight for something”
Photo of the day: Maj. Mark Bieger
Set a remembrance table

ComScore Media Metrix estimates that Daily Kos had 212,000 unique visitors in April, compared to almost 30 million unique visitors to the New York Times web site. If so, that means nytimes.com had 140 times as many readers as Kos, the most heavily-trafficked political blog. It also suggests that the number of visits at a […]

You probably will never see it in any MSM letters section, but you can read it over at Power Line.

No confirmation on the fate of former Clinton fundraiser David Rosen yet, but apparently CNN reporting and Drudge has the bright-red font announcing acquittal.
153pm FOX News now also reporting acquittal.
First reports…
Los Angeles Times
Background at Peter Paul’s site, HillCAP.
More coverage of the Rosen trial…
Prosecutors: Rosen Failed to Report Gifts
Rosen Shifting Blame, U.S. Prosecutor Says
Prosecutors attack David […]

From Widefield, Colorado, the latest addition to the anti-Bush assassination chic file (hat tip: reader Angela C.):
High school yearbooks were recalled so that administrators could black out a joke caption under one student’s picture: “most likely to assassinate President Bush.”
Mesa Ridge High School officials recalled about 100 yearbooks earlier this month and had staffers use […]

Another Republican joins the “maverick” club: Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the man who defeated Tom Daschle, has announced he will not vote for Bush U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton. Thune says his opposition is payback for the Pentagon’s recommendation to close Ellsworth Air Force Base. Thune now claims that Bolton “is not the best man […]

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz seems to tell Glenn Reynolds that the MSM is paying too little attention to newly disclosed FBI documents that contained the latest Koran-in-the-toilet allegation:
I don’t contend that these FBI papers, unearthed in an ACLU lawsuit, get Newsweek off the hook. But you’d think they would be getting more attention.
Of […]

You probably haven’t heard about the new analysis by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, released Thursday, May 19. The study indicates that both the number of abortions in the U.S. and the abortion rate declined in 2001 and 2002:
The Institute estimates that 1,303,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2001—0.8% fewer than the 1,313,000 […]

In this morning’s coverage of Koran abuse allegations at Gitmo, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, Reuters, and Associated Press all mention in their lead paragraph that the Pentagon found no credible evidence that a guard flushed the Koran down a toilet. The Washington Post, on the other hand, […]

Detainee who claimed American guards flushed a Koran down the toilet at Guantanamo Bay sez: “Never mind.”
***
Previous:
- Guantanamo Bay: the rest of the story
- Once more, into the toilet
- Newsweek lied*. People died.

So much for “comity.” And “getting things done.”
Vote fails 56-42. 3 Dems sided with GOP: - Landrieu, Nelson, Pryor.
656pm. Sen. Harry Reid on the floor: “We’re not here to filibuster Bolton, we’re here to get information.”
658pm Frist: It certainly sounds like a filibuster. It quacks like a filibuster.
It does disappoint me…We are going to […]

New developments in the case of murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh via AP (hat tip Tom Pechinski):
Authorities have arrested two Chechen citizens in France and the Netherlands in connection with the November slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, prosecutors said Thursday.
One of the suspects was arrested May 18 in Tours, France and was […]

Hot political story of the day is out of the Volunteer State. Huge FBI corruption sting–dubbed “Operation Tennessee Waltz“–has resulted in the arrest of four state legislators, including the uncle of recently announced Dem U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford. State legislator John Ford apparently threatened to kill an undercover FBI agent. (Indictments posted in […]

Via AP:
The Democratic Party, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and two groups associated with the civil rights activist have agreed to pay a total of $200,000 in civil fines for campaign finance violations in the 2000 elections.
At issue in the Federal Election Commission case was about $450,000 in election spending by Jackson, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and […]

The latest on the Bolton nomination…
- Senator Barbara Boxer is demanding more delay. Background here.
- A cloture motion to limit debate on the nomination of Bolton to be the U.S. representative to the United Nations is scheduled for 6pm EST. It will take 60 votes to end the debate, so the Republicans will need five […]

Just in from AP:
A former Wall Street trader who rejoined the Marines after the Sept. 11 attacks will not be tried on murder charges for killing two suspected Iraqi insurgents, a Marine general decided Thursday.
Reuters adds:
“After careful consideration of the Article 32 Investigative Report and of the autopsies, Maj. Gen. Huck has decided to dismiss […]

Daily Kos and other liberal bloggers are claiming that newly-released FBI documents confirm Newsweek’s allegations regarding Koran-flushing (see “FBI: Newsweek was right“).
It should be obvious to anyone who so much as glances at the documents being cited that the FBI was reporting the statements of detainees rather than endorsing or validating those allegations. Immediately before […]