The Frisco paper ran a long piece Saturday on Susie (“Medea”) Benjamin, the ubiquitous protester we’ve written about from time to time. It answers two burning questions about her name and the source of her funding:
Yet before she adopted the name “Medea” as a Tufts University freshman, she was Susie Benjamin, self-described “nice Jewish girl [...]
Nick Denton has discovered a blogger so vain and pedantic he makes Anil Dash look like a free-speech hero:
Tom Coates, a rather pedantic British blogger whom I met in person this week, is appalled by those he considers warbloggers. So, does he try to persuade them, and their readers? Nope. Coates’s latest contribution to web [...]
If I had to name the four members of Congress most hostile to fathers and families a few months ago, my list would’ve featured Patsy Mink and Connie Morella in the House, and Barbara Boxer and Paul Wellstone in the Senate. They all have histories of pushing legislation that makes fathers more easily discardable, while [...]
Sgt. Stryker’s Daily Briefing makes some cogent observations about the tendency of certain members of the blogging public to take themselves too seriously:
Then we have the good ole’ arguments. Person A says something on his blog, Person B rebuts and then it’s just rhetorical tricks and nonsense after that. In the middle of these arguments [...]
The Sacramento Bee — sacbee.com — New anti-war effort takes shape
Today’s anti-war activism flows from what has become a semi-permanent infrastructure of protest — a “culture of protest,” as Sheridan called it. The Quaker-based “Friends” date back to World War I. Peace Action, with 80,000 members and a chapter in Sacramento, has been active since [...]
The big gaffe over Davis’ check from COPS hasn’t hurt Simon, since viewers saw the picture and are already accustomed to the idea that Davis is for sale. George Will thinks Simon still has a chance, as he trails by only 7 percent:
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Last Saturday morning, after another pratfall in a star-crossed, accident-prone [...]
N. Korea Discloses Secret Nuclear Arms Program
WASHINGTON — North Korea has admitted to pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program using enriched uranium in violation of its 1994 pledge to freeze its nuclear program, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday.
And they said “Axis of Evil” was an unfair characterization.
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We had about 5,000 page views Saturday, thanks to an off-hand Instapudit link to “Fortney’s Complaint”, which is about triple the norm around here.
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The Mercury News ran some of Fortney “Pete” Stark’s comments from the House floor on the Iraq resolution, omitting his reading of the Molly Ivins column blasting the President for the sin of being an “upper class white boy”; I’m guessing Fortney was told he resembles that remark himself. Here’s what they did run, with [...]
Fortney (“Pete”) Stark, Congressman from Fremont in the East Frisco Bay, threw a bodacious tantrum during the debate over the Iraq resolution yesterday, calling the President a liar, a sweater-wearer, and a draft-dodger, and even going so low as to invoke the name of Molly Ivins, the Barbra Streisand of Texas journalism. It was such [...]
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