Category: General
More Brave Tibetan Monks Stand Up to Tyranny
More of these stories, please A group of monks shouting there was no religious freedom disrupted a carefully orchestrated visit by foreign reporters to Tibet’s capital Thursday, an embarrassment for China as it tried to show Lhasa was calm after recent deadly anti-government riots. Officials arranged the trip for the reporters after the violence in [...]
Bring Out Your Guns! *CLANG!*
Ah, there’s nothing like living in a free society, is there? A crackdown on guns is under way in the District. Police are asking residents to submit to voluntary searches in exchange for amnesty under the District’s gun ban. The program is starting in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of southeast Washington on Monday and will [...]
Bringing Back the 60s, Russian-Style!
Voting in Russia is done and the winner, to absolutely no one’s surprise, is Vladimir Putin’s hand-picked puppet successor, Dimitry Medvedev. In the best Soviet tradition, the vote was accompanied by threats and intimidation as well as the good old “plentiful Vodka and toilet paper” ploy. Also, to no one’s surprise, Medvedev is intent on [...]
Johnny Mac? Meet Petard.
About ten days ago, Johnny Mac’s campaing was riding high on the announcement that they were coming off of the public funding of his campaign. Doing that freed him from spending limits and put him on a more equal footing to get an early spending run on the Democrats. Then, as if by magical coincidence, [...]
Meanwhile at the Hall of Delegates…
I think that Aquaman is going to be sorely disappointed when he hears about this. Team Clinton has renamed superdelegates, telling reporters this morning they should really be called “automatic” delegates. ” ‘Super’ has some sort of sense that they are going to descend on us from Mars,” said Clinton supporter Harold Ickes, a DNC [...]
Bashing the Lazy MSM from the Inside
The MSM has been falling down badly on the job of covering this election from a standpoint of anything more than sheer personality and the silly “horse race” angles. It’s nothing new, really, but it’s nice to see that finally someone who is not one of the unwashed blogger rabble is calling them on it. [...]
Neo-Realism and the End of War
Karl has a post over at protein wisdom I find very interesting and something worth my pondering. Actually,it’s a subject I’ve thought quite a bit about in the past few years; that is, what is the role of the United States in a world where aggressive Islamism exists? I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say [...]
All-Digital TV in 2009: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.
Not necessarily women, but, hey, you never know. There’s still an angle to be worked by the MSM and you can bet that they’ll find it. What I find maddening is that you and I are actually going to buy these converter boxes. And when I say “buy”, I mean “have money taken from us [...]
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