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Wednesday, September 7, 2005
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We’re Bushed
Kanye West huffed and Colin Farrell puffed. Sean Penn huffed and Pierce Brosnan puffed. Finally, Oprah huffed and puffed.
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Democrats Will Use Katrina To Attack Roberts
As if the tragedy has not been exploited enough, now the democrats will use it to attack John Roberts nomination to Chief Justice.
Hat tip: Joe’s Cafe via Boston Globe
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats said yesterday that they will invoke the v…
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Jimmy Carter University?
Just down the street from my house resides a new University. Previously, the University of Georgia, Georgia State and Perimeter College had classes there but in 2006 it will become a stand alone college. Tomorrow the Board of Regents will name a Pre…
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The Right Charleston
Q. CNN reported that an airplane carrying Hurricane Katrina victims landed at the wrong Charleston. Is this true?– Carolina On My Mind
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The Knucklehead of the Day award
Today’s winner is West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel.
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Protect and serve
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Bush-Bash Ad Banned
In a field of nine democrats, I guess you have to try and stand out. So Brian’s ad starts out bashing the president and ends with Ellner wrapping his arms around his partner. According to Ellner, Fox refused the ad because it was “disrespectful to th…
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Jane Fonda: Polyunsatured Fat Tour Canceled.
Jane Fonda, anti-war activist and veteran anti-aircraft gunner for the Viet Cong has canceled her proposed vegetable oil powered bus tour, saying that she doesn’t want to distract people from Cindy Sheehan’s bus trip, saying, “O…
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Headache
Today’s dose of NIF – News, Interesting & Funny!
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Surprise – Redistribution Fails Again!
The upside? This story made it into the news…
The downside? It took until the sixth paragraph to identify the problem:
The seizure of thousands of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to black Zimbabweans, combined with years of d…
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Scumbag Fred Phelps Pickets Rehnquist Funeral
I have posted about this idiot before, the so-called Revered Fred Phelps. He has ‘protested’ the funerals of gay/lesbian military men and women in the past on several occasions. His latest stunt is picketing the Chief Justice Rehnquist’s funeral using
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An Honorable Life
This impresses me more than gold braid on a sleeve: The chief justice’s three children gathered near the of the coffin:James, a lawyer and former college basketball star; Janet, also a lawyer; and Nancy Spears, whom Rehnquist frequently credited as…
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Tears and Leadership
Mayor Nagin in grubby T, tears to follow courtesy Wizbang Mayor Ray Nagin cried during a WWL radio interview about Hurricane Katrina. Senator Mary Landrieu shed a tear on This Week while describing “one pitiful” crane working on a…
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Thoughts and Concerns on Katrina Charity
I just heard from Sean Hannity during a brief errand that organized charitable donations to Katrina relief since the storm hit are exponentially higher than the donations during a similar time period after the September 11 terrorist attacks and the ts…
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Sometimes You Need a Clinton
There is no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton would have handled this crisis better than George W. Bush. While it is true that the governor of Louisiana waited too long to call in the National Guard and the…
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The Sad, the Poor, the Women
Earlier today, Rush Limbaugh demanded that an independent commission be immediately assembled to investigate the utter failure of liberalism to fulfill its vision of a socialist paradise in New Orleans, the premier Democrat city in Louisiana, a Democr…
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Bush’s Hurricane-Blame Numbers Take A Scary Dip
A recent CNN Poll shows that the percentage of people who are blaming President Bush for the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has dipped to a dangerously low 13%. This number is especially disconcerting to many on the left who have
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Let’s Help the President
The President will be choosing a second nominee to the Supreme Court. Let’s help him out. Vote for your choice. You can vote once a day. I’ll leave this here today, but will move the poll to one of the side bars later.
Who Should President B…
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Media group says ?show us the bodies?
I don?t know what it is about coffins and bodies but the some in the media seem to have an unhealthy obsession with them. First, there was the push for showing pictures of our soldiers returning home in flag-drapped coffins, now this:
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Homosexual Marriage Ok’d by California Legsilature. Arnold Next?
The California Assembly last night passed a bill already approved by the California Senate earlier this week to allow marriage between homosexual partners. Now the bill will arrive at Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk for his signature.
Th…
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Paid In Full
AP reports that a 90-year-old man walked into a US diplomatic office and handed over an envelope with 1,000 euros (about $1,240) for hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
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Probably Best To Wait
An Associated Press story notes that President Bush may not make his second SCOTUS nomination quickly.Senior White House officials do not expect the president to make his choice known this week, and possibly not until after the Senate holds a
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A reason to be proud
I have always been proud of being a Canadian. It may not always seem so, as I have been given many reasons to feel shame for the actions of the official arm of my country, and many of it’s sentient
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Moveon.org to use refugees in White House protest
Received from MoveOn via email:
…Sign our petition demanding that the Bush administration stop blaming victims, including state and local officials, and focus on helping them.
We’ll begin to deliver the earliest signatures to the White H…
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Fixing The Katrina Memes
I have to hand it to Hugh Hewitt, he was right. The Left’s reaction to Katrina, rather than being a bounteous outpouring of that famous liberal compassion, was instead the Wellstone Memorial redux.
Hugh advised that if your opponent is making a foo…
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Faith and Legacy
At a time when events in Iraq and in the US both lead some to uncertainty and doubt, and even perhaps a failing of resolve, I have looked for additional sources for inspiration and hope.
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Bush Declares War On Equatorial Guinea
After his recent flyover of New Orleans, reports from confidential sources within the administration indicate that President Bush has made the decision to take the country to war.
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Bring Our Troops Home, NOW!! No Blood For Oil!!
Our troops are in a quagmire. The insurgence is gaining strength, and the people are resisting. The infrastructure is destroyed and the population is going without basic human needs. We can’t get the local leader’s to cooperate with each other, and i…
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$62,000 per person in federal aid and counting in
$62 billion, 1 million people….that works out to $62,000 PER PERSON…not houshold…PER PERSON.
We have seen very little leadership in the Congress reviewing the White House’s requests for aid. A few, like Representative Tom Tancredo, are a lea…
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Outsourcing Disaster Relief: Take 2
Undaunted by the nattering of nabobs of negativity, I run the idea of outsourcing disaster relief up the flagpole over at TCS. Three items in today’s WSJ lend additional support to my thesis. First, John Berthoud reminds us how the
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PP Continues to Exploit Hurricane Victims
Pro-life advocates say Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, continues to exploit victims of Hurricane Katrina. The organization previously said it would provide morning after pills to victims, instead of food or shelter, and is…
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