The defense of DeLay seems to be that Earle is a partisan hell bent on destroying Republicans. Unfortunately for the GOP, nothing could be further than the truth: While Earle is an elected Democrat, as Media Matters for America has previously noted, a March 17* editorial in the Houston Chronicle commended his work: “During his [...]
Archive for September, 2005
Pounding the Table
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on September 29, 2005 |
Comments Fixed?
Posted in Bloggin on September 28, 2005 |
Okay, I think I figured out what went wrong with the comments. I am still not sure why it was pulling stuff out of active and into moderation, but I bleive I managed to get all of them back. Email if you see nay other issues.
A Government for All
Posted in Church & State, Katrina on September 28, 2005 |
Americans United points out that FEMA is prepared to hand out money to religious organizations who were as concerned with evangelizing as helping the victims of Katrina: According to Baptist Press news service, Southern Baptist aid workers distributed 11,000 evangelistic tracts and 1,200 Bibles in the hurricane-ravaged areas and saw “45 new professions of faith [...]
Comments are Messed Up
Posted in General on September 28, 2005 |
Yes, I do know that comments are disappearing and people are being blocked. It’s happened to me, too — I don’t know what I changed to cause this, but something’s messed up. I tried to kill a spam attack last night, and I suspect that something I did there messed things up. I will be [...]
The fact that the US has killed the number two Al-Qaeda man in Iraq is an unambiguously good thing. Having killers dead is inarguably better than having them running free. But just because it is good news does not mean that it is important news. The US has captured and killed many terrorist leaders and [...]
David Sirota has a nice piece in In These Times that highlights the effect Bush’s choices had on worsening the problems of Katrina: Consider just a few of the specific examples: In the same budget that provided more than a trillion dollars in tax cuts, Bush proposed providing only half of what his own administration [...]
Banned Books Meme
Posted in Books, Culture, General, Media, Writing on September 28, 2005 | 21 Comments »
The new meme: how many of the ALA’s list of The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 have you read? My list below: ones I’ve read in bold-face; ones I “feel like I’ve read” through having them read to me, reference use, or seeing the movie in underline type; ones I haven’t read in [...]
Exactly Right
Posted in Culture, General, Iraq, Legal Issues, Politics, Terrorism on September 28, 2005 | 4 Comments »
This letter, from an 82nd Airborne company commander to Senator John McCain, published as an open letter in the Washington Post, is exactly right in every respect. It couldn’t be better expressed. Here are some excerpts, but, by all means, go read the whole thing: Dear Senator McCain: I am a graduate of West Point [...]
Oh,That Liberal Media
Posted in Media on September 28, 2005 |
Or, you know, not: On the September 23 edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, on which Mitchell was a guest, host Maher referred to Mitchell’s tough questioning of Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir during a July trip to Sudan with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s delegation. The Sudanese leader’s security guards forcibly removed Mitchell [...]
This is kind of amazing. Certain members of the right wing are now taking reports that the violence that was reported in new Orleans was exaggerated as “evidence” that things weren’t as bad in New Orleans as was reported. They pretend that the violence was somehow what horrified Americans. So let me explain this to [...]
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