Mon Oct 30, 2006 – 8:13 pm
A lot of nonsense has been written about the US apparently being taken over by an evangelical “theocracy.” NLT dissects a recent example of this genre.
Mon Oct 30, 2006 – 5:55 pm
A curious story about how a lesbian couple got the fathers to surrender the rights to make a foursome.
H/t: iMAPP
Mon Oct 30, 2006 – 12:32 pm
The US Defense Department has a webpage devoted to rebutting what it regards as false news stories about its activities. And in case you think it’s all about the New York Times, they’ve also provided a rebuttal against a Weekly Standard editorial.
H/t: Belmont.
Mon Oct 30, 2006 – 8:36 am
In light of more jeremiad prophesies bewhaling the future consequence of man-induced global warming …
Global warming could devastate the world economy on a scale we haven’t seen since the world wars and the Great Depression, a major report by a British economist says.
Sir Nicholas Stern, the report’s author and a senior government economist, said unchecked […]
Mon Oct 30, 2006 – 1:30 am
Ha ha ha, sucker. Even when white males win, they lose under the Charter:
The Manitoba government is trying to appeal the decision by arguing, in part, that the charter guarantee was not designed to provide a level playing field for white males.
Heather Leonoff, director of constitutional law in Manitoba’s Justice Department, said Manitoba wants […]
Sun Oct 29, 2006 – 6:16 pm
Garth Turner gave an interview to someone named Greg Felton and Bourque linked to it. Here are some excerpts from the hard-hitting questions asked of Garth:
“It doesn’t sound as if the MPs in the Harper government have any freedom whatever…”
“How would you characterize the Harper government? It doesn’t sound democratic.”
“Would it be too much […]
Sun Oct 29, 2006 – 3:25 pm
The Dixie Chicks have a movie coming out entitled “Shut Up and Sing.” The sanctimonious cover photo should tell you everything you need to know about the movie:
The tag-line is “Do you believe in free speech?” Why yes, I do. The question for the Dixie Chicks, if they are able to come down from […]
Sat Oct 28, 2006 – 3:19 pm
Listening to Sullivan on Hugh Hewitt and reading his continuing incomprehensible rhetorical meanderings on his blog, he reminds me of nothing so much as an increasingly isolated General who points to bullet holes in the wall behind his head as being of different caliber and says:
“The enemy is divided.”
Sat Oct 28, 2006 – 12:33 pm
Last week it was a Republican ad running in Tennessee.
This week it’s a Republican incumbent in Houston for the Texas state house. Geeky Canook accent and all.
UPDATE: It turns out the Democrat Ellen Cohen, the target of the ad, isn’t even Canadian. The Houston Chronicle explains:
And the best we here in Houston can get […]
Sat Oct 28, 2006 – 10:25 am
Attached to 747s, to shoot down missiles soon after launch.
