Category Archives: Current Affairs

Will The Dems Turn On Hurricane Blanco?

You remember Gov. Kathleen Blanco Of Louisiana, she of the "was I supposed to ask for help?" during Katrina. She who was worried more about what she was wearing then anything else during and after Katrina. She who the Left assiged zero blame for what happened in her State before, during, and after Katrina, regarding […]

Women Police In Iraq

This is pretty good news for a Muslim country (story by Petty Officer 2nd Class John J. Pistone at Centcom) IRBIL ,  Iraq  — Women’s rights might not be the first thing one thinks of when someone mentions  Iraq , however, some officials in the Kurdish provinces in northern  Iraq   would like it to be. According […]

Euthanasia For All! Heck, Europe Does It

So, I’m driving how after the ‘Canes game, and I tuned in to 680 WPTF Raleigh. It was a short drive, only about 1/2 mile. And I hear some guy, gotta be a lib, talking about how great euthanasia is, and how Europe is just so far ahead of us. I’m sorry, but isn’t that […]

EU Dastardly On Civil Rights

I haven’t noticed any liberals being upset about this: European Union nations will have to start issuing new secure biometric passports with a chip containing facial features by the end of August, EU officials said Thursday, and prepare to add fingerprint data to the travel documents by 2009. If Bush pushed this, the Left would […]

Oh, Those Wacky Jihadi’s!

While I was slumming over at the UselessA Today (pretty colors!) for the previous story, I ran across this one, with thoughts of Yakkity Sax running through my head: Thousands of Shiite Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hezbollah took to the streets of southern Beirut on Thursday night, burning […]

Iran Wants More Talks Shagging With EU

Will the European Union act like one of those women on Jerry Springer, or will they put on their chastity belts (via Yahoo News) PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia – Iran‘s foreign minister said Tuesday that Tehran is ready to restart negotiations with the European Union on its nuclear program, but he ruled out direct talks with the […]

Good News: Military Funeral Protesters Barred!

Hey, Congress finally got its act together and passed good legislation: Demonstrators would be barred from disrupting military funerals at national cemeteries under legislation approved by Congress and sent to the White House Wednesday The measure, passed by voice vote in the House hours after the Senate passed an amended version, specifically targets a Kansas […]

Israeli Economy Great: Palestinians Tanking

Interesting: This is just one sign of Israel‘s robust economic expansion. At a time when the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza are teetering on the brink of a collapse, Israeli growth – 6.6 percent GDP rise in the first quarter of 2006 – has returned to the torrid pace set before the outbreak of the […]

Sneezy “Scorns” EU Offer

As Teach mentioned yesterday, the EU was thinking of offering Iran a light water reactor. Apparently, Iran doesn’t think much of the idea: Iranian President Mahmoud “Sneezy” Ahmadinejad on Wednesday ruled out any idea of halting nuclear fuel work in return for EU incentives, saying the Europeans were offering “candy for gold.” Britain, France and Germany, the […]

Another Brilliant EU Idea

What is it with liberals/socialists? They seem to think that appeasment is wonderful, and, then, to top it off, they give people even more then they want: Key European nations are considering offering Iran a light-water nuclear reactor as part of incentives meant to persuade Tehran to give up its uranium enrichment program, a senior […]

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