Stark Contrast Between Right and Left when it comes to controversy
Posted on March 3, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, Politics As Usual | Comments Off
As the Ann Coulter “outrage” continues, I thought it appropriate to note the striking differences between how the Right and the Left react to these sorts of things.
Today just a glance at Memeorandum shows the outrage of conservative bloggers against Ann - some of it in my opinion overboard (bordering hysterical), but nontheless deserved. [...]
Motion to Recommit H.R. 800 by a 202-225 vote in the U.S. House of Representative this afternoon.
Posted on March 3, 2007 - Filed Under Communism, News | Comments Off
The fact that the Republican minority leadership picked this fight today, and did so well, is an encouraging one.
Republicans voted 189-8 for the restriction on illegal aliens influencing unionization efforts either for the company or for the union. If we are to beat back amnesties and other immigration increases in the House, we have to [...]
Unanimous Fourth Circuit panel throws out ACLU’s case against CIA on behalf of German terror suspect
Posted on March 3, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, News, Supreme Court, War On Terror | 2 Comments
Stay tuned. This will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Court rejects German’s appeal in torture case
German national Khaled al-Masri went to court seeking a U.S. apology for allegedly being kidnapped, held five months in Afghanistan and tortured by the CIA.
Yesterday three judges of the federal appeals court in Richmond ruled that U.S. [...]
This one’s got Hillary’s fingerprints all over it — Obama’s forbears were slaveholders
Posted on March 3, 2007 - Filed Under Communism, News, Politics As Usual | 31 Comments
…in the category of “Article Most Blatantly Meant to Damage One Candidate and Benefit Another”…
Baltimore Sun: A new twist to an intriguing family history
Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.
But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: [...]
