Monthly Archives: January 2005 - Page 2

66th Secretary of State

Posted by on 1/27/2005 6 comments

Rice Takes Over As Top U.S. Diplomat With a friendly smile and a wave, Condoleezza Rice took over Thursday as America’s 66th secretary of state to confront an agenda laden with difficult and potentially explosive foreign policy problems. Echoing President …

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Crusade vs. Rice

Posted by on 1/27/2005 15 comments

Crusade vs. Rice Freezing Out Black Dems It’s not just Republicans who are livid at how Democrats have ripped into Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ” so are plenty of black Democrats, who say their party now risks alienating its …

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Don’t Hire Columnists

Posted by on 1/27/2005 3 comments

Bush Orders an End to Hiring Columnists President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries Wednesday not to hire columnists to promote administration agendas after disclosure that a second writer had been paid to assist an agency. “All our Cabinet secretaries must …

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Just FYI

Posted by on 1/26/2005 34 comments

Senators who voted against confirmation of Dr. Rice for Secretary of State: Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. John Kerry, D-Mass. Carl Levin, D-Mich. James Jeffords, I-Vt. Jack Reed, D-R.I Mark Dayton, D-Minn. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii Evan …

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Clueless

Posted by on 1/26/2005 215 comments

Insult by: Michelle Malkin – NY Post DO YOU remember when immigration officials sent out flight-school visa-ap proval notices for two of the 9/11 hijackers ” six months after they had committed their suicide attacks on America? President Bush proclaimed …

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AZ says: “Prove it”

Posted by on 1/26/2005 7 comments

Ariz. Requires Citizenship Proof to Vote Arizona has become the first state to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote, a measure that supporters say is intended to prevent voter fraud. The law went into effect Tuesday after being …

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Gonzales Approved

Posted by on 1/26/2005 36 comments

Senate Judiciary Committee Approved Alberto Gonzales A divided Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general, rejecting Democratic complaints about his role in formulating administration policies blamed for contributing to the torture of detainees. On a …

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Condi Confirmed

Posted by on 1/26/2005 14 comments

Senate Confirms Rice As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won easy confirmation Wednesday to be President Bush’s new secretary of state, despite strong dissent from a small group of Democrats who said she shares blame for mistakes and war deaths …

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Ruling Could Free Some Serving Life

Posted by on 1/26/2005 Comments Off

Delaware Supreme Court Could Free Nearly 200 Inmates Serving Life With Parole Inmates Nearly 200 inmates serving time for murder, rape and kidnapping will be eligible for immediate release following a ruling by the Delaware Supreme Court that some life …

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Same Antics – Different Ted

Posted by on 1/26/2005 123 comments

Ted Turner Compares FOX News To Hitler Ted Turner called FOX a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel’s popularity to Adolf Hitler’s popular election to run Germany before World War II. Turner made those …

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Boxer Fund Raiser

Posted by on 1/26/2005 6 comments

Barbara Boxer Launches Fundraising Drive Sen. Barbara Boxer took her opposition of Condoleezza Rice to a new front: She has used it in a fundraising pitch to Democratic donors. The pitch went out Tuesday evening. On behalf of the Democratic …

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Murderer Survives Blast

Posted by on 1/26/2005 2 comments

Would-be suicide bomber angry at those who sent him Ahmed Abdullah al-Shaya told Iraqi investigators during an interrogation early this month that he was recruited to drive a car rigged with explosives to Baghdad and blow it up. He said …

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Tsk Tsk Tsk On The ACLU

Posted by on 1/26/2005 10 comments

ACLU Changes Its Website After Being Caught Editing and Distorting the 1st Amendment On January 17, I posted a First Look column titled “The ACLU’s Very Own Constitution.” In it I commented upon an item that I had first been …

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Deficit Blow-Out

Posted by on 1/26/2005 4 comments

Deficit Will Hit Record $427B The White House will project that this year’s federal deficit will hit $427 billion, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The official said the estimate was a conservative one that assumed some higher spending than …

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“Try To Bill The UN”

Posted by on 1/25/2005 8 comments

No Relief in Sight for the USS Abraham Lincoln It has been three weeks since my ship, the USS Abraham Lincoln, arrived off the Sumatran coast to aid the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami that …

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