It seems like Helen Thomas has forgotten to take her medication again. The journalistic fossil had a few comments the other day about Vice President Cheney: But asked this week if she is promoting a Cheney candidacy, Thomas made it clear she isn’t. “The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, [...]
With all of the news regarding Discovery’s return to flight, and yet another problem with the insulating foam on the external fuel tank, people are re-examining the Columbia tragedy. Specifically, they are trying to determine why the foam keeps breaking off during shuttle launches. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) found that the most reasonable [...]
Howard Dean, the gift that keeps on giving to the Republican Party, is once again launching sound-bites which warm the hearts of Conservatives everywhere: President Bush “only likes to hear from people who agree with him,” Dean told the College Democrats of America, and Republicans, he said, “are all about voter suppression.” After asking the [...]
Another example of how far an unbridled government can creep into your private affairs: At least half a million New Yorkers have diabetes, many of them at risk for blindness, kidney failure, amputations and heart problems because they are doing a poor job of controlling their illness. The question is, how much privacy are they [...]
Wonder why you never hear any good music on the radio? Here’s your answer: The internal memos from Sony Music, revealed today in the New York state attorney general’s investigation of payola at the company, will be mind blowing to those who are not so jaded to think records are played on the radio because [...]
Jane Fonda, apparently not satisfied with alienating several previous generations of military personnel and veterans, is going back on the road to protest against the War on Terror and the War in Iraq: SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for [...]
This weekend brought good news for the economy: CHICAGO (AP) – The AFL-CIO succumbed to division Sunday, with its largest union deciding to bolt the 50-year-old federation and three others poised to do so in a dispute over how to reverse organized labor’s long slide. The four unions, representing nearly one-third of the AFL-CIO’s 13 [...]
Here is just the latest in the string of outrages regarding illegal immigrants: The throng of Latino immigrants gathering outside the 7-Eleven in downtown Herndon looking for a day’s work has been the most noticeable part of this commercial district of shopping plazas and fast-food restaurants for almost a decade. For as long as they’ve [...]
Barbra Streisand, the woman who thinks that a singing career entitles her to telling the Bush Administration how to operate, has shown once again how little she understands about the law and the Constitution: How lucky for George Bush that his well-timed nomination of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court has taken the heat off [...]
Democratic Senators Edward (the Swimmer) Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Daniel Akaka (D-Hi.) were read the riot act by soldiers from their home states who work at Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Soldiers from Massachusetts and Hawaii who work at the U.S. military detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave visiting home-state senators a piece [...]
Seems I hit a nerve in the moonbat community yesterday with this post. Since it’s fun to do so, let’s take his comments apart one by one. So, Joseph, whose web site is here, this is for you: Can you explain how they broadcast the landing on the moon “live”? If someone filmed the astronaut [...]
When I went to Google today, they had one of their special graphics up in honor of the 36th anniversary of man’s first walk on the moon: As most people who are at least 40 years old can do, I remember watching the moon landing live on the television. The whole family was gathered around [...]
Scot Hacker: Nick, the timeline is straightforward: We had regulations, they worked for many...
AnnPW: You can pass all of the regulations you want, if no one is enforcing them they’re useless....
Nick: Scott: Like I said, there are laws on the books to punish those who commit crimes on Wall... AnnPW: So true, Scot! But then, of course, the fact is that even what few laws are left aren’t... Scot Hacker: Nick, when you say “Laws are on the books… enforce them,” you...
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