Archive for May 24th, 2007
Please Welcome Barb
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Please welcome Barb from The Barb Wire, who will be doing postings on faith-issues.
She has her own blog and will be cross-posting her posts from the Barb Wire to here when she feels she has a good post we’d all be interested in reading.
Please give her a big welcome!
The Interrogation of Monica Goodling
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Byron York of National Review gives his take on the interrogation of Monica Goodling, late of the Justice Dept., yesterday:
Those were significant issues. But they weren’t enough to capture the attention of some committee Democrats, for whom there were more important questions to consider. Questions like: Where did Monica go to law school?
The short [...]
More Snakebites Predicted This Season
Thursday, May 24th, 2007According to this article snakebites are supposed to be on the rise this year.
“With the increase in reported snake activity and the advent of warmer climatic conditions, we may be witnessing the start of a very busy snakebite season. We have worked very hard as an organization to help ensure hospitals are stocked with adequate [...]
And Now Last Night’s Rant From Keith Olberman
Thursday, May 24th, 2007I wonder how he’s managed to not have a stroke if this is the type of “commenting” he does.
Thanks to Outside the Beltway for the video.
Special Hat Tip to Sister Toldjah
When a Crime Crosses the Line and Becomes Terrorism
Thursday, May 24th, 2007 The Captain has a post about domestic terrorists.
He does his intro and then posts this angry letter by the sister of the one charged with terrorism:
MY BROTHER IS considered one of the biggest domestic terrorists in the country. You probably haven’t heard of him, and I think that’s odd. After all, he’s dangerous. He’s [...]
Military Identifies Body of Killed Soldier
Thursday, May 24th, 2007PFC Joseph Anzack, Jr.
The US Military identified the remains of the US Soldier found in the Euphrates River as PFC Joseph Anzack, Jr.
The military confirmed Thursday that the body found a day earlier in the Euphrates River south of Baghdad was that of Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., who had been missing since militants ambushed [...]
Catfight!
Thursday, May 24th, 2007I don’t watch “The View” but I read there was a catfight between sweet Rosie O’Donnell and Elizabeth Hasselbeck. See it for yourself:
This is the video that started it all:
Shrum’s View of Edwards
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Bob Shrum, political adviser to many Democrats including Al Gore and John Kerry, started out before the 2004 campaign as a supporter of John Edwards.
That soon changed, as this story in The New Republic shows:
Shrum discovered Edwards during the North Carolinian’s first Senate campaign in 1998. Shrum writes that, after his encounter with Edwards, [...]
He Didn’t Get Reprimanded, But He Did Write a Note of Apology
Thursday, May 24th, 2007From the Politico.
Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania sent a note of apology to Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan Wednesday, the day after a divided House denied Rogers a vote to officially reprimand the powerful senior Democrat.
Murtha apologized for his “outburst” in a handwritten note Rogers received Wednesday morning, the latter’s office confirmed. [...]
Thoughts and Another Theory
Thursday, May 24th, 2007For those of us old enough to remember that fateful day in November, 1963, the memories when prodded even slightly, become vivid again..
I was in school when news came over the loud speaker that President Kennedy had been shot. The hallways and classrooms became eerily quiet and after dismissal, the walk home produced [...]



