March 26, 2008 – 8:00 am
Via CNS News, which will probably be the only news outlet to carry the story Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet […]
March 26, 2008 – 7:47 am
Just another case of Los Federales assuming power not given to them by the Constitution A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down a state law requiring airlines to give food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passengers stuck in delayed planes, saying the measure was well-intentioned but stepped on federal authority. The 2nd U.S. […]
March 25, 2008 – 5:29 pm
Being the huge human rights supporters that they are, with such bastions of freedom like Gabon, Pakistan, and Ghana sitting on the Human Rights Council this year, and Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia on it for 2009, I wonder when a statement will be issued China’s crackdown on dissent in Tibet has made headlines around the […]
March 25, 2008 – 8:44 am
If the Times says it, it must be true! Obama’s Test: Can a Liberal Be a Unifier? At the core of Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is a promise that he can transcend the starkly red-and-blue politics of the last 15 years, end the partisan and ideological wars and build a new governing majority. To […]
March 25, 2008 – 7:59 am
It’s been said so many times, but, during WWII, filmmakers were actually rooting for America to win. Now, they release films and put snarky commentary into TV shows to root for America’s defeat, and highlight how mean and bad and at fault we are (Washington Post) After five years of conflict in Iraq, Hollywood seems […]
March 25, 2008 – 7:39 am
This is a clear example of a #2Â from The 8 Stages Of Liberal/Progressive Discussion When They Are Busted, Find some sort of moral equivalence or a story from 30 years ago saying a Conservative did something sort of similar The Huffington Post has learned that Bill O’Reilly — who claims to love America — spent […]
March 24, 2008 – 5:52 pm
You too can play along!!!! DETROIT – Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit’s youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old […]
March 24, 2008 – 8:37 am
Happy Monday! Tme to get busy, shift a few paradigms, send some fastblast kudo’s. How ’bout a beer? Apparently , someone was drinking when they made this decision (al Reuters) A U.S.-based web service, which Islam critic and Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders planned to use to show his film critical of the Koran, said […]
March 24, 2008 – 8:27 am
Probably (cBS News) A new controversy flared up in the Democratic presidential race Saturday over remarks by former President Bill Clinton whom Barack Obama’s campaign accused of using divisive tactics and unfairly trying to question the Illinois senator’s patriotism. The former president told a group of veterans Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina: “I think it […]
March 24, 2008 – 8:01 am
Sadly, I am really not surprised. Disgusted, yes. Shocked, no (Chicago Tribune) Six people were arrested at Holy Name parish’s auditorium Sunday after disrupting an Easter mass to protest the Iraq war. The group—whose female and male members identified themselves as Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War—stood up at the beginning of Cardinal Francis George‘s homily […]
