Daily Archives: February 14, 2007

Culture Of Corruption: Jim Black To Plead Guilty

This will probably only matter to those in North Carolina, but, hell, I live in North Carolina Former House Speaker Jim Black is expected to plead guilty to a public corruption charge in federal court in Raleigh on Thursday, ending the career of North Carolina's most powerful speaker of the modern political era. Under the […]

Senate Democrats: Islamic Detainees Deserve Rights

So, remember all those folks rounded up on the battlefields of Afghanistan, fighting against us, wearing no uniforms, and now at G'itmo? The Geneva Convention makes them enemy combatants. Heck, they could be considered spies and executed. Well, the Defeatocrats have made their support of them official A group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation yesterday […]

American Soldier Held In Iraq Alive, On Video

Rusty has an important post on this over at the Jawa Report. Definately, check it out. This is good news, Spc. Ahmed K. Altaie is still alive, and, God willing, will remain so.

Iraq Closing The Borders With Iran And Syria: ‘Bout Damn Time!

Seriously, what in the hell took so long? BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced Tuesday that Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran and ordered the return of unlawfully seized homes, as part of the drive to end the violence that has threatened to divide the capital […]

Today’s Global Warming Humor: Climate Change Hearing Cancelled Due To Snow

Via Drudge: The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?” It's 32 […]

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