(Note: this is a serious essay, but it ends just kind of hanging; I’ll probably write more on this at another time.)
The kiddos were sick this past weekend and I found myself doing night duty. Between reading and blasting evil droids and rebels on Star Wars: Battlefront II, I watched the Bravo network’s countdown [...]
Here’s a few interesting and useful facts this Halloween:
***The law provides for anyone who buys a haunted house. You can sue and win if the former owner didn’t tell you the house was haunted. Does this mean the government [...]
Why it’s called the Blue Ridge Parkway:
Any one article read in isolation of any others probably wouldn’t make much of an impression. However, when read in relation to other articles of the same topics, they give one pause for thought.
MoveOn Moves In on Youth ForumÂ
The MySpace-MTV youth forum today with Senator Barack Obama had been billed as a casual “dialogue,†with [...]
I feel like laughing now. How about you?
One. A brilliant gag from a German TV show. See if you can figure this out! (It’s a six-minute clip and in German, of course, but well worth it. The answer is below the fold.)
Two. Check out Cracked Magazine’s list of the most ridiculous sports team [...]
According to the Washington Times :
Campaign coverage of the 2008 presidential election has been both biased and shallow, according to a study released today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
One party dominates, and there’s way too much partisan fluff.
Guess which one. Go on, [...]
The Australians are also in an election cycle and their PM John Howard is in quite a fight. He’s been a great friend to the US and his lefty media holds a grudge for that and for providing Australia with one of the world’s best economies. The media is doing everything they can to unseat [...]
It’s Monday and it’s going to be Monday all day, so in light of Monday-itis, how’s about an open thread favorite movie line Monday?
There’s a lot of testosterone on this site, so I expect a few “Make my day” (Dirty Harry?) or “Take it to the mattresses” (Godfather) type responses. To balance it out on [...]
Years in office: 1877-1881
Pre-service occupations: lawyer, governor, U.S. representative, general
Key events during his administration: end of Reconstruction (1877), “Great Railroad Strike†(1877), resumption of specie payments (1879), Nez Perce campaign (1877)
Presidential rating: Mildly successful and mixed on popularity
ESSAY
Rutherford B. Hayes seems like one of those “footnote†presidents—an also-ran. Indeed, Hayes’ ascendancy in 1876 [...]
It’s time to withdraw the firefighters, America cannot win this fight. If we withdraw them now, the fire will just go out. It’s only there now because our firefighters are there. No firefighters, no fire. It’s time to negotiate.
More here:
After the all of endless days of the California fire quagmire, it’s time for America [...]
Are you downscale? You might be if you are a democrat.
This article in The Nation is very disturbing to me. (I know what you’re thinking, it’s The Nation, they are very disturbed over there) It is just that this article is so elitist and condescending to women without college degrees, referring to them as DOWNSCALE. [...]
Even before our Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week began, we were being attacked by radical leftists with a fake flyer at George Washington University- a deceitful hoax that was revealed in the Washington Post and on Fox News.
And now during the week we’re seeing our opponents mount new attacks, threats and intimidation daily. They want to [...]
And delves quite nicely into Kathy’s wonderfully written post below. Take a look at this picture:
Here’s the story:
A woman with her hands painted blood-red confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the US Congress Wednesday, shouting “war criminal” before being hauled away by Capitol security.
Desiree Farooz accosted Rice ahead of her appearance at [...]
Describing this article as a must read doesn’t do it justice. If you read only one thing on the internet today it should be this article:
Snipers aim for a soldier’s heart; congressional leaders aim for the heart of why he serves: Honor, Country, Duty to both. But to congressional leaders, there’s no honor in [...]
Naturally I have to pull for the Rockies. And no matter how things turn out – these guys are WINNERS.
Hat tip: Sister Toldjah