Monthly Archives: September 2005

Bill Bennett; racist or making a point?

Posted by Pam on 9/30/2005 28 comments

Media Matters has the audio and transcript from the September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network’s Bill Bennett’s Morning in America: Bennett’s remark was apparently inspired by the claim that legalized abortion has reduced crime rates, which was posited in …

F. D. B.????

Posted by Astro on 9/30/2005 9 comments

From The Cato Institute: It wasn’t a fireside chat on the radio. No, it was different. President Bush stood in front of a church and addressed the nation by television. But otherwise, we’re back in the days of President Franklin …

Leave My Child Alone?

Posted by Pam on 9/29/2005 9 comments

Leave My Child Alone is the latest act of Cindy and Co. My nephew brought this home from school yesterday… Did you know… that the regressive No Child Left Behind Act includes a little-known section requiring high schools to turn …

Judith Miller released today

Posted by Pam on 9/29/2005 1 comment

E & P Judith Miller, The New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to identify a source, has been released, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its Web site tonight. Knight Ridder’s news service then …

Is this ethical?

Posted by Pam on 9/29/2005 10 comments

NRO Coming Soon: The Ronnie Earle Movie The DeLay prosecutor has let a film crew follow him through the whole case. For the last two years, as he pursued the investigation that led to Wednesday’s indictment of House Majority Leader …

Roberts Sworn In

Posted by Lisa on 9/29/2005 29 comments

John Roberts was sworn in as the 17th chief justice of the United States on Thursday, taking his oath at a White House ceremony attended by President Bush and other justices of the Supreme Court. Other blog coverage: Swearing-In Ceremony …

Are The Flight Attendents Unions High????

Posted by Astro on 9/29/2005 4 comments

From MSN: Three groups representing flight attendants are calling for a boycott of the box-office hit “Flightplan.” In the Jodie Foster thriller about a mother looking for her missing daughter aboard a plane, a flight attendant colludes with an air …

From One Flood to Another…

Posted by Astro on 9/29/2005 11 comments

After Peejz’s post on the relief bill for Louisiana, I found this one on Reason.com with some even more disturbing comments and plenty of hypocritical turds floating in the flood of red ink. Shelley Moore Capito is worried about Hurricane …

$250 Billion for Louisianna?

Posted by Pam on 9/28/2005 20 comments

Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and David Vitter(R- LA)proposed legislation called the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act . In it, they are asking us, the tax payers to give them $250 billion. Mary Landrieu has legislation here *$ 8 …

Free Abortions

Posted by Reilly on 9/28/2005 4 comments

Arkansas Clinic Offers Free Abortions A doctor has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees, saying it may be too dangerous for them to wait until they return home. Despite protests from abortion opponents, Little Rock Family Planning clinic …

And the Punchline is…

Posted by Lisa on 9/28/2005 5 comments

DAN Rather wants to reopen the investigation into President Bush and the National Guard story that resulted in the Memogate scandal and led to his early departure from the anchor desk. But his bosses at CBS have forbidden him to …

Better Late Than Never, Jimmy

Posted by Astro on 9/28/2005 3 comments

Five years after the controversial 2000 presidential election, ex-President Jimmy Carter now says he’s certain Al Gore defeated George W. Bush. “Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process,” Carter …

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