Daily Archives: November 19, 2007

Newsweek: Dems Should Run Against Bush

And you will never guess whose advice this comes from. Hint: almost every single candidate he has backed has lost.

Former Imam Sentenced In France

I hope France is ready for burned McDonalds’ A French appeals court sentenced a former imam Monday to five years in prison for involvement in a plot to stage attacks in France to support fighters in Chechnya. The Paris Court of Appeals stiffened Chelalli Benchellali’s original 18-month suspended sentence, imposing instead a five-year prison term, […]

San Fran Starts Its Plastic Bag Ban

At least this article doesn’t go down the climate change road Attention San Francisco shoppers: Plastic grocery store bags are going, going, gone. Starting Tuesday, large grocery stores in the city can no longer use the traditional plastic bags that are a staple of the supermarket checkout line, as a city ordinance passed earlier this […]

Duncan Hunter Delivers “Pardon The Border Agents” Letter To Bush

But, will Bush listen? (Washington Times) In a letter that was delivered today to the White House, 31 major conservative petitioners joined a campaign led by Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and presidential candidate, asking President Bush to pardon Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean before Thanksgiving. The letter comes on the heels of the […]

Beer Monday: Gray Lady Says Surge Is Working

The start of the work. Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, revolutionize outside the box. How ’bout a beer? And, woah! do the liberal readers of the New York Times need a beer. On the front page (Internet and print edition), there is a story that basically says the Surge is working BAGHDAD, […]

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