Monthly Archives: February 2005

There’s a young lady in England who really hates living and (Aren’t I stinker?) so she tossed herself off bridges and other high ledges until the judge told her not to budge because she would go to prison if she … Continue reading →

Iran is cracking up. Seems that the Mullah’s have given up trying to enforce the dress codes, and the country seems ready to give the Mullahs the final push into the garbage disposal. Viva la revolution!

Yahoo! News – Federal Judge Orders ‘Enemy Combatant’ Jose Padilla Charged Or Released A federal judge in Spartanburg has ordered that an American citizen held as an enemy combatant in a Navy brig in Charleston should be released. In this … Continue reading →

Attack on AARP, Like ‘Religious War,’ Built on Either/Or Fallacy As synonyms for the word “vile,” my thesaurus offers some of the following: offensive, objectionable, odious, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, revolting, disgusting, sickening, loathsome, foul, nasty, contemptible, despicable and noxious. Any … Continue reading →

Jeff Jarvis seems to be becoming the Voice of the Blogosphere, at least as far as mainstream broadcast media is concerned.

Regular commenter lucia thinks that this Doonesbury cartoon is “very good.” What do you think?

Why do I think Ward Churchill would not have participated in this protest?

Casus Belli 2) Iraq sought to assassinate former president George H. W. Bush during a visit to Kuwait. Let’s skip the fact that he is the father of the current president, and look at the facts: Iraq attempted to kill … Continue reading →

Michelle Malkin: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FACULTY MEMBERS COME TO THE DEFENSE OF WARD CHURCHILL Churchill’s defenders frame this as an issue of academic freedom, but I wonder how many of these same faculty members would be singing the virtues of … Continue reading →

The New Republic Online: The Thrill Is Gone …This was Negro night at the Oscars, and I use the old offensive epithet because Hollywood is, in this sense, still the old offensive place. Oh I don’t mean because Hollywood is … Continue reading →

Redmond | Redmond Report Article: The Young Turk of Firefox What are the significant new features of Firefox 1.0 from previous versions? Firefox 0.9 marked a loose feature freeze, so we’ve really focused our efforts in the 0.9 to 1.0 … Continue reading →

Says Jeanne-Claude: In a whisper, she explained that the gratitude was misplaced. The whole project, all $21 million of it, was of, by and for themselves, Jeanne-Claude and Christo. If the public happened to like it, well, that was a … Continue reading →

Remember Al Qaqaa? The obvious question is whether the Times pushed the Al Qaqaa story hard in the days in which it might have an effect on the presidential election, and then let up the moment the election was over. … Continue reading →

Car Thief Caught After Falling Asleep RICHMOND, British Columbia (AP) — It wasn’t hard for the Mounties to get their man in a car theft, even though it had not been reported. Alerted by a passer-by, officers found a man … Continue reading →

Glenn Reynolds has a report up that the Lebanese government has just fallen. AP is now also confirming. This is beginning to look familiar, isn’t it? Ronald Reagan engineered the collapse of the Soviet empire, and suddenly freedom broke out … Continue reading →

The Daily Pundit radar has picked up a preemptive garbage strike coming across the Canadian border, targeting the U.S.

CELEBS’ CHARITY WAS OIL-SCANDAL PIPELINE February 28, 2005 — WASHINGTON – Two major American figures in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal worked together to ship humanitarian supplies to Iraq through a charity connected to celebrities, The Post has learned. According to … Continue reading →

Both Europe and America face similar problems with their social welfare systems – in our case, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. In Europe it is an entitlement structure that is already hamstringing the economies of the region. Both sides, in … Continue reading →

The Iranian nuclear threat – The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED – February 28, 2005 Make no mistake about it: Friday night’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, in which four Israelis were killed, serves as a warning about the future in a … Continue reading →