Archive for July, 2005
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
Finally, a member of Congress who understands the stakes in the War on Terror: DENVER, Colorado (AP) — A Colorado congressman told a radio show host that the U.S. could “take out” Islamic holy sites if Muslim fundamentalist terrorists attacked the country with nuclear weapons. Rep. Tom Tancredo made his remarks Friday on WFLA-AM in [...]
By: Nick | Category War on Terror | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 15th, 2005
Read this today and got a real good laugh out of it: “All right,� I said, “as a young person working on Capitol Hill, making a modest sum of money, what do you and the Democratic Party have to offer me? What are you gonna do to help me move from one class to another?� [...]
By: Nick | Category Politics | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
Seems like the military personnel stationed at Guantanamo Bay are doing just what they need to do to fight the War on Terror: Guantanamo Bay interrogators degraded and abused a key prisoner but did not torture him when they told him he was gay, forced him to dance with another man and made him wear [...]
By: Nick | Category War on Terror | 2 Comments »
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
After reading the NEA’s latest agenda, I had to think twice about putting this into the “Education” category. It reads more like a rundown of the Democrat Party Platform. As a matter of fact, you have to sift through 14 agenda items dealing with opposition to Wal-Mart, opposition to Social Security Reform, and other political [...]
By: Nick | Category Education, Politics | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
As if this were not enough, the EU has given us more reasons why nobody wants to approve its constitution: EUROPE wants to begin to regulate the internet for the first time by introducing controversial rules to cover television online. Brussels is considering regulating areas such as taste and decency, accuracy and impartiality for internet [...]
By: Nick | Category Government | 3 Comments »
Monday, July 11th, 2005
Perhaps this is why no one voted to approve the EU Constitution: BRUSSELS, July 11 (Reuters) – European Union states that have not adopted EU rules aimed at reducing noise in crowded cities will face court action if they fail to act soon, the bloc’s executive said on Monday. The European Commission said it was [...]
By: Nick | Category Government | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 11th, 2005
I guess the MSM is the last to figure this out: More than two-thirds of the news stories on ABC, NBC and CBS covering the first 100 days of Mr. Bush’s second term were negative, according to an analysis released today by the District-based Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA). It’s actually a slight [...]
By: Nick | Category Journalism, Politics | Comments Off
Monday, July 11th, 2005
Here is the top ten search keyphrases used to find this site for this month: I think I’ll quit trying to figure this all out!
By: Nick | Category Bizarre Stuff | Comments Off
Saturday, July 9th, 2005
Last July 9th, I started this blog with the following post: Welcome Thanks for stopping by Conservative Dialysis. This blog is a forum for me and my readers to discuss topics such as politics, satire, and current events. I welcome opposing points of view via the comments section. I hope you’ll bookmark this site and [...]
By: Nick | Category Blog Announcements | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 7th, 2005
As reports from London continue to come in from the cable news networks, internet news sites and blogs, it seems to me that there are a lot of people who are surprised that this has happened. The question I have for these people is: Why are you surprised? The people who perpetrated this attack are [...]
By: Nick | Category War on Terror | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 7th, 2005
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union has hired democratic campaign operatives to run its effort to force Wal-Mart to unionize. Now the union has recruited strategists from the 2004 Howard Dean and Wesley Clark campaigns, and they are mounting a crusade that goes beyond the usual union tactics, such as the boycott or shareholder [...]
By: Nick | Category Labor | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 7th, 2005
As you are probably aware of by now, London was attacked by terrorists this morning. A series of explosions struck London’s public transportation system Thursday in what Prime Minister Tony Blair (search) called a coordinated series of “barbaric” terrorist attacks, most likely to coincide with the opening of the G-8 summit in nearby Scotland. At [...]
By: Nick | Category War on Terror | 1 Comment »