This particular time, Tony Blankley takes offense at Barbara Boxer's exchange with Condoleezza Rice:From http://www6.cnn.com/..."`Who pays the price?' Boxer asked Rice. `I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old and my … [Read more...]
Archives for January 12, 2007
Code Pink Gets Listened To Instead of Being Arrested — And the Media Covered It!
I just can't get over this photo of Gael Murphy, head of Code Pink in D.C., talking with General Pace and Secretary Gates on Capitol Hill. What a difference from previous encounters between Code Pink and this administration. … [Read more...]
What Would It Take for YOU to Take Action About The Iraq War?
Last night, a couple of hundred people turned out on Boston Common to protest Bush's plan for a 'surge'. About 120 were in Newton and perhaps more in towns and cities across Massachusetts. These protests were organized by groups … [Read more...]
Is Grassroots Lobbying being quashed?
Christian groups are all in a snit about sec. 220 of S. 1 (the "ethics reform" bill). I got an e-mail from Mass. Family Institute asking me to call Kennedy and Kerry to support the Bennett Amendment that would remove Sec. 220.From … [Read more...]
Don’t Tug on Superman’s Cape – Barney Frank Edition
"Point of orders rarely end in with a question mark. I've never heard one that did!"Could our humble rep be Washington's new Leroy Brown, "the baddest man in the whole damn town"?Not since the discovery of the Prime Minister's Questions … [Read more...]
Exxon yanks funding from global warming deniers
Even Exxon now sees the writing on the wall now that the "modeling has gotten better" but still joins the Bush in opposing the Kyoto Protocol. In todays Wall Street Journal.Exxon Softens Climate-Change Stance Hoping to Shape Policy, Oil … [Read more...]
Are Some fish More Equal Than Others?
From the Wahington TIMES (not Post):House Republicans yesterday declared "something fishy" about the major tuna company in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district being exempted from the minimum-wage increase that Democrats … [Read more...]
Another Valley Advocate article on Ben LaGuer
LaGuer: Four FingerprintsA Prosecutorial Strategy That Rests On Lies, Omissions And Intimidation Should Not Be Tolerated By The Courts Or By The Public.By Eric GoldscheiderJanuary 10, 2007Last Thursday, a couple of hours before the new … [Read more...]
The Selling of Mitt Romney
Well you can't say the Herald isn't entertaining.If you can't read the red star at the bottom, he's:-Fully Electable!-Programmed to talk out of both sides of his mouth-Comes with all the necessary conservative accessories … [Read more...]
Leaving Iraq and Al Qaeda in Iraq
One group who is worrying is the Bush Administration. With Bush's latest change in strategy tactics in Iraq, the Administration issued a PowerPoint presentation warning us ominously that "Al-Qaida in Iraq has declared and shown its … [Read more...]