My god, Nancy Pelosi is a fucking moron. Check her sophisticated understanding of the Supreme Court and eminent domain law:
Q Later this morning, many Members of the House Republican leadership, along with John Cornyn from the Senate, are holding a news conference on eminent domain, the decision of the Supreme Court the other day, and [...]
Nixon called Indira Gandhi an “old witch” but she wasn’t as hostile to the US as Arundhati Roy, the narcissistic Indian novelist-turned-revolutionary who wants our enemies to hit us and hit us hard while she stands back and watches (login nobugs, pw bugmenot):
Personally I’m not prepared to pick up arms now. But maybe I can [...]
Politech relates some military reaction to the speech, all of it positive. Which leads him to this:
Memo to the left wingnuts who’ve been telling those who believe in the war (as an alternative to just leaving Saddam in power) that the chickenhawks need to join the military: it’s good to see that so many servicemembers [...]
Here’s your basic instant reaction from the Gallup Poll on the question of who’s winning in Iraq:
U.S. and its allies
Insurgents in Iraq
Neither side
No opinion
2005 Jun 28 (Post-speech)
54%
7
35
4
2005 Jun 24-27 (Pre-speech)
44%
9
44
3
That’s bigger bump in “we’re winning” than I would have expected, and bad news for those Democrats who insist we aren’t fighting Al Qaeda in [...]
Laurence Simon’s cat Edloe has gone to the great catnip patch in the sky.
Condolences.
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Anthropologists can finally begin the study of Kennewick Man:
A coalition of four tribes — the Umatilla, Yakama, Colville and Nez Perce — claimed the bones were covered by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and belonged to the tribes.
U.S. District Judge John Jelderks and the appeals court, however, ruled the tribes could prove [...]
It seems to me that the American people want to know if we’re winning or losing in Iraq. The message from the MSM is that we’re losing, which I doubt, but the President didn’t offer enough evidence to win over many of the fence-sitters. It was nice that he highlighted the fact that we’re fighting [...]
The good folks at Moveon.org have an automated letter-writer to respond to Chimpie McBushitler’s speech. You enter your name, and it tells you what you think:
It’s time to start responsibly coming home from Iraq.
The president offered nothing new in his speech. No plan. No exit strategy. Nothing.
Iraq is no closer to stability than it was [...]
This is a cute little piece:
WASHINGTON, June 27 – Senators from both sides of the aisle competed on Monday to extol the humane treatment of detainees whom they said they saw on a weekend trip to the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. All said they opposed closing the center.
“I feel very good” about [...]
One of the more bizarre tactics employed by opponents of regime change in Iraq has been to insist that war can’t be supported or even suggested except by those who’ve either served in combat or donated a child to serve in combat. Those of us who haven’t done active duty time are mere “chicken [...]
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