Breaking News: Crash & Explosion at Scotland Airport
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under Illegal Activities, News, War On Terror | 9 Comments
Update: I can now confirm this was a deliberate attack. The next step is finding out who exactly is behind this.
Breaking news, with mixed reports on whether this was an accidental car crash or an intentional crash into the building. Initial reports say the fire is outside of the building, and that it did not [...]
SCOTUS Defends Political Free Speech for Students
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 2 Comments
It was Leftist speech that SCOTUS defended in this case but it offers a very useful precedent for political speech at schools and colleges generally:
“Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district’s appeal of a ruling that it violated a student’s rights [...]
2008 Means More Than The White House
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under Politics As Usual | Comments Off
That’s right, the 2008 general election means a possible return of a Conservative majority in the Senate and perhaps the House as well if the GOP plays its cards right. Notice that I didn’t say Republican? I said Conservative.
The key to making this happen is an active search for Conservative candidates. Just because someone has [...]
Immigration Bill: Congress Sent To The Corner By The American People
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under Illegal Activities, News | 1 Comment
So, here we are: the immigration bill, obviously not knowing it was dead the first time, didn’t know to stay down, and had to be shot in the forehead a second time (I use this metaphor gleefully, as any mention of firearms and use thereof it surely will cause the left to defecate a bovine).
This [...]
IQ AND BIRTH ORDER
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 1 Comment
The article Explaining the Relation Between Birth Order and Intelligence by Petter Kristensen and Tor Bjerkedal (appearing in the journal “Science”) seems to have got quite an amazing amount of press so I thought I should say a few words about it. I did not make any comment initially because I thought [...]
Read More..>>One Sellout Dead Just In Time To Revive Another
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under Politics As Usual | Comments Off
As dust begins to collect on the now lifeless sellout known as the “Grand Compromise” by its promoters, a new threat is beginning to gain steam among those on the left who wish to silence the only media completely controlled by Conservatives – talk radio.
The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC rule that was allowed teeth [...]
More pseudo-psychology with the same old pseudo “findings”
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off
Newsweek has just given a big plug to a book called “The Political Brain” (by Drew Westen of Emory University) that purports to tell Democrats how to win elections. The writer of the review does not know the difference between “discreet” and “discrete” so the intellectual level to be expected is not high [...]
Read More..>>The Great American Sellout Has Died A Second Death
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off
The much anticipated 3rd cloture vote on the Senate Immigration Reform Bill also know by readers of Gribbit’s Word as “The Great American Sellout” has resulted in a 3rd no vote on cloture. Sen. Harry Reid has once again promised to pull the bill from the floor. One can only hope it stays in its [...]
Read More..>>Having opinions about race is not the same as racism
Posted on June 27, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 1 Comment
The article below is a typical rant about racism from a Left-leaning Australian newspaper. Typically, it makes no distinction between opinions about race and racism. To do so would deprive the author of much of the warm inner glow of righteousness she got from writing it. But, as any psychologist can [...]
Read More..>>OK for a Leftist Icon to Use “Homophobic” Language?
Posted on June 27, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 2 Comments
We read:
“Gore Vidal is up in arms over a new play that imagines him being sexually attracted to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Edmund White’s “Terre Haute,” which recently finished a successful run in Britain, involves the relationship between a thinly veiled, Vidal-like writer named James and a McVeigh-like killer, Harrison.
Vidal, 81, told the London Observer: [...]
“Volksverhetzung†coming soon to America? Pro-lifers = Holocaust deniers
Posted on June 26, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Abortion, Activist Judges, Communism, News | 1 Comment
Don’t think it can’t happen here. With American judges relying more on foreign law (yeah, yeah, “instructive, but not binding,” suuuuuuure) when that pesky US Constitution just doesn’t lend its support for the implementation radical Leftist agenda. The ACLU itself has been a proud advocate of bans on pro-life speech. Additionally, it is [...]
Read More..>>No duh: It hurts kids to purposely deprive them of a mom or a dad
Posted on June 25, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, Child Exploitation, Homosexual Agenda, News | 30 Comments
Of course, that wasn’t the conclusion of the CNN “report,” but you needn’t read between any lines to see. It’s unfathomably tragic that we’re even having this common sense-defying discussion.
CNN: Gay adoption: A new take on the American family
Roach and his longtime partner, Ken Manford, adopted Jackson from Guatemala in 2001 and say he [...]
“Bad facts make bad law” in Supreme Court “Bong Hits” decision
Posted on June 25, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, News | 2 Comments
Another view. See everyone, STACLU isn’t a lock-step monolith : )
ADF’s David French breaks it down pretty well at Phi Beta Cons: A Bong Hit to Free Speech
There is an old saying in the legal profession: “bad facts make bad law.” Well, that is exactly what happened today in the Supreme Court. [...]
ACLU Loses Bong Hits For Jesus at SCOTUS
Posted on June 25, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, News | 4 Comments
In other Supreme Court news…the ACLU and Bong Hits For Jesus lose.
Now this is another sound ruling. In this case free speech is restricted, however, rightly so. In the environment of a school certain restrictions are necessary for good discipline and a productive learning environment. The school has every right to restrict [...]
Supreme Court Loosens Restrictions On Election Ads
Posted on June 25, 2007 - Filed Under Abortion, News | Comments Off
A sound ruling from SCOTUS.
The Supreme Court loosened restrictions Monday on corporate- and union-funded television ads that air close to elections, weakening a key provision of a landmark campaign finance law.
The court, split 5-4, upheld an appeals court ruling that an anti-abortion group should have been allowed to air ads during the final two months [...]
