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In their own words
2008-02-13 15:20:00 An inside look at what goes on in the People’s Republic of Berkeley: UPDATE 7: After a day of enraged confrontation outside Berkeley City Hall between anti-war and pro-military demonstrators, the City Council backed down early Wednesday from its controversial decision to tell the U.S. Marines they are “unwelcome intruders” for operating a downtown recruiting center. Council members ... More About: Government , Words , Blindness
In their own words
2008-02-10 18:10:00 An inside look at what goes on in the People’s Republic of Berkeley: YouTube DirektLink Hat tip: Moonbattery UPDATE: On February 2, 2008, Berkeley City Council Member Linda Maio told the Bay Area News Group’s Doug Oakley: “I don’t think any of us paid enough attention to it, and people want to rewrite it to more accurately portray our sentiments,” ... More About: Government , Words , Blindness
Toledo?s mayor worse than Berkeley?s
2008-02-10 18:01:00 I didn’t think it was possible, but it is: A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner. The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., planned to spend their weekend engaged in urban patrol exercises on the streets ... More About: Government , Berkeley , Blindness
Making life-changing decisions in the second grade
2008-02-09 18:01:00 From Moonbattery we learn: The public schools of Douglas County, Colorado stand ready to pretend that a boy in the third grade is a girl. Please note, the original article has posted a correction - the child is in the second grade. So why would any parents put their child through this? Why, because he “wants to dress ... More About: Life , Changing , Decisions
Berkeley, Calif., Mayor Apologizes to Military Members Following Flap Over
2008-02-08 22:09:00 WASHINGTON ? The mayor of Berkeley , Calif ., has issued an apology to servicemen and women serving in Iraq following a flap over a City Council vote that told the U.S Marine recruiting station there it should leave, and if it doesn’t, is staying only as “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.” The apology follows the introduction this week of ... More About: Military , Mayor , Members
Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
2008-02-08 22:05:00 By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these ?green? fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded. The benefits of biofuels have come under increasing attack in recent months, as scientists took a closer look at the ... More About: Global Warming , Greenhouse , Biofuels , Blindness , Threat
Election officials probe use of ?magic? invisible ink pens in 49th Ward
2008-02-07 22:00:00 By David Kidwell |Tribune reporter Chicago election officials Tuesday afternoon were trying to unravel the mystery of the incredible invisible ink. It’s no Agatha Christie novel but a real case for election investigators sent to the 49th Ward ’s 42nd precinct Tuesday morning, after 20 ballots were cast with “magic” invisible ink pens. More About: Magic , Election , Pens , Invisible
Egypt warns Palestinians not to breach Gaza border
2008-02-07 21:59:00 http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=425 4887 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has warned Palestinians against trying to break through its resealed Gaza border about two weeks after Hamas militants blew it open to defy an Israeli-led blockade. After allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to cross into the Sinai peninsula last month, Egypt on Sunday closed the border to Palestinians seeking entry. More About: War On Terror , Breach
US: al-Qaida in Iraq training children
2008-02-07 00:01:00 By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD - Boys in soccer jerseys don black masks and grab weapons. They scramble over mud-brick walls, ... More About: War On Terror , Children , Iraq , Training , Terrorist
Two Palestinian suicide bombers reached Israel through Egypt, a militant le
2008-02-04 22:53:00 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The two friends left their Gaza homes last week, telling their families they were traveling to Egypt across Gaza’s breached border. On Monday, Luay Laghwani, 22, and Moussa Arafat, 24, surfaced in a shopping center in the working class town of Dimona in southern Israel . One blew himself up, killing an Israeli ... More About: War On Terror , Suicide , Terrorist
Lame, Halt and Crippled American System
2008-02-04 02:44:00 In observing today’s broken, painfully limping electoral system, BuzzSawMonkey notes that: “That’s only part of it. Are the MSM to blame? Yes, in part–but running hysterically after the “winners” of each contest is what they do. First: The primary system should be drastically overhauled. There should be four national primaries, each of which contains a mix of Northern ... More About: System , Opinion , Editorial , American , Lame
Universal Health Coverage - the cure for America?s sick health care system
2008-02-03 20:12:00 An oft-overlooked aspect of the much desired (by liberals) universal health care is that, order for it to work, health coverage must be mandatory for everyone. Even if you’re not bothered by the thought of the federal government forcing you to do something that it does not have the Consitutional authority to do, consider this: Hillary ... More About: America , Economy , Health , Government , System
Talk back to Berkeley: Sign the petition
2008-02-03 18:32:00 Michelle Malkin has the full scoop: here?s the text of the Berkeley city council agenda with the ?Peace and Justice Commission?s? recommendation that led to the resolution giving Code Pink special parking privileges and a free sound permit to protest at the Marine recruitment center: From: Peace and Justice Commission Recommendation: 1. Direct the City Attorney to investigate and ... More About: Talk , Back , Petition , Sign
MDS: McCain Derangement Syndrome
2008-02-02 18:15:00 A fine post from The Jawa Report: I thought BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome ) was bad on the left, but it appears that MDS is just as bad on the right. I wholeheartedly support Mitt Romney as the most conservative feasible candidate, but lets do a reality check here. For all of you who claim that there is ... More About: Election 08
One step closer to the nanny state - Mississippi wants to make it illegal f
2008-02-02 04:06:00 From The Smoking Gun we learn: Please note that this would apply to ANY restaurant with 5 or more seats. So whoever the government decides is obese AND anyone the restaurants are afraid MIGHT qualify, won’t be allowed to eat out, regardless of what they would have chosen to eat. Not that it matters, of course. This ... More About: Government , Nanny , Mississippi , State , Nanny State
40th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive
2008-01-31 21:27:00 (Timestamp altered to keep post on top) al-Qaeda’s High Hopes Give-Em-Help-Harry! Above are two links of interest, what with today being the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, and these days Harry Reid is waving his yellow-trimmed WHITE FLAG as hard as he can, but too many Americans actually want to help free the Iraqis, so we’re not ... More About: War On Terror , Islamic , Anniversary , Justice , Opinion
Soldier Suicides at Record Level
2008-01-31 21:26:00 By Dana Priest, Washington Post Staff Writer Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial her for endangering another soldier and turning a gun on herself last year in Iraq, attempted to kill herself Monday evening. In so doing, the ... More About: War On Terror , Soldier , Record , Middle East conflicts , Cord
No Delays As New Border ID Rules Begin
2008-01-31 21:25:00 By WILSON RING Associated Press Writer Motorists passed easily through border checkpoints Thursday as tougher identification standards for U.S. and Canadian citizens went into effect without the backups and confusion some travelers had feared. People entering the country will no longer be allowed to simply declare to immigration officers at border crossings that they are citizens. Instead, ... More About: Rules , Delays
Report Says Democracies Enable Despots
2008-01-31 21:23:00 By WILLIAM C. MANN Associated Press Writer Authoritarian rulers are violating human rights around the world and getting away with it largely because the U.S., European and other established democracies accept their claims that holding elections makes them democratic, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report Thursday. WOULD YA BUY ME A COFFEE? Click here ... More About: World News , Report
Where do YOU stand, Candidate?
2008-01-30 07:58:00 Do you see any incongruity, any hypocrisy, Mr McCaindidate, in stripping America of its border an yet demanding that YOU be allowed to keep YOUR skin? After all, human skin IS the border between YOU and all other non-you, isn’t it? And you, Mrs Climpon, do you see the injustice in taking from the productive (by ... More About: Opinion , Editorial , Stand , The Law of Unintended Consequences , Candidate
Liberal paranoia sees conspiracies even among other liberals
2008-01-30 04:57:00 In the city of Vallejo, California, east of San Francisco, a local drama is taking place: Cloutier is suing to be reinstated as mayor and to have the original results of the election, prior to the recount, be considered valid… …Cloutier was sworn in as mayor on Dec. 4 after winning the machine count in the Nov. ... More About: Liberals , Government , Liberal , Conspiracies , Paranoia
Health-Care Bill Fails to Pass
2008-01-29 21:37:00 By Rhonda L. Rundle In a move that appears to doom an intense year-long health-care reorganization effort by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, a far-reaching $14.7 billion plan to overhaul California’s health-care system failed to pass out of a state Senate committee. WOULD YA BUY ME A COFFEE? Click here to donate ... More About: Health , Government , Health Care , Care , Pass
Cloutier requests help with legal fees
2008-01-29 21:36:00 By ANDREA WOLF/Times-Herald staff writer About 200 people packed into a standing-room-only public meeting Sunday to hear Gary Cloutier explain why he is pursuing legal action to challenge the results of Vallejo’s mayoral race. WOULD YA BUY ME A COFFEE? Click here to donate via PayPal. More About: Government , Legal , Fees , Requests
Where do YOU stand, Candidate?
2008-01-29 06:26:00 Jihad Watch Offers Questions for Candidate s by Robert Spencer 1. What would you do to deal with the national security aspect of immigration? 2. What will you do as President to work toward ending the absurd situation we find ourselves in today, of financing by means of oil revenue our own destruction by means of jihad terrorism? What steps would you take to put our relationship with Saudi Arabia on a more realistic footing than it is on today? 3. If you are elected President, what will you do to root out possible Muslim Brotherhood operatives and other jihadist sympathizers from sensitive government positions? 4. As President, would you favor the monitoring of mosques in the United States in order to ensure that that kind of thing is not happening here? What other steps would you take? Would you call upon the Muslim community in America to institute comprehensive and transparent programs in mosques and Islamic schools, teaching against the jihad ideology and Islamic ... More About: Stand
State of the Union Address
2008-01-29 04:07:00 Some have already noted that it would be entirely appropriate for President Bush to begin addressing the people of America as something OTHER than ‘fellow Americans’, inasmuch as nearly half of them no longer seem to share basic American traits with him. Others are noting that President Bush HAS kept us safe at home, watched over a generally healthy and growing economy, and surged toward a very winning situation in Iraq. Hot on the heels of the State of the Union Address , what are YOUR sentiments? What do YOU think about America, and the soon-to-be-EX-president George Bush? WOULD YA BUY ME A COFFEE? Click here to donate via PayPal. More About: State of the Union
California Governor?s Plan for Health Care in Trouble
2008-01-28 21:36:00 By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO ? It has been a January to forget for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California . Since the beginning of the year, the governor, who handily won re-election just 14 months ago, has had to confront a $14.5 billion budget deficit, declare a fiscal state of emergency and announce across-the-board cuts for almost every ... More About: Economy , Health , Government , Health Care
Money tales from the Great Depression
2008-01-28 21:26:00 By Rob Baedeker, Special to SF Gate Amid the din of impending-recession rumors, I’ve noticed friends voicing anxiety about their jobs, finances and futures, and after hearing and reading an increasing number of reports on economic anxieties (like Dave Carpenter’s fine overview in last week’s Chronicle,) I’ve also started to worry about how dire it ... More About: Economy , Money , Depression , Great , Tales
Do Americans want big government?
2008-01-27 19:49:00 A recent Rasmussen Report would indicate they don’t: The majority of voters in the survey are in favor of less government involvement, with 62% preferring fewer services with lower taxes. Less than a quarter (24%) chose the opposite view and feel that more government services with higher taxes is more beneficial. The same report also found: 62% of ... More About: Government , Big Government , Americans
Good morning, Mr. Vice President
2008-01-27 18:58:00 A nightmarish (for conservatives) scenario I hadn’t considered: As everyone knows, former President Bill Clinton is debarred from being elected as President ever again, by virtue of Section 1 of that amendment: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or ... More About: Government , Morning , Good , Vice President
Bow to your new overlords
More articles from this author:2008-01-27 18:50:00 A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned down by a [British] government agency’s awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims. *spit* WOULD YA BUY ME A COFFEE? Click here to donate via PayPal. More About: Islamic , World News 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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