Matt Gunterman at Ditch Mitch brings us this Courier-Journal article by James Carroll:Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s spokesman acknowledged yesterday that he alerted reporters last week to questions bloggers raised about the financial circumstances of a 12-year-old boy Democrats had used to urge passage of...
Month: October 2007
1994 was the eighteenth year of Rich Brooks tenure as the head coach of the Oregon Ducks, and he took the Ducks to the Rose Bowl for the first time.
After surviving nearly eight months with pancreatic cancer -- the same disease that killed his own father four years ago -- my dad passed away quietly at home this morning..
My mother's mother -- my only surviving grandparent -- passed away earlier today. It's very sad, but as the cliche goes probably for the best. The last time I saw her in January she no longer recognized me, and she had effectively stopped eating for...
Just so the consequences of Bush's veto of S-CHIP are 100% clear: it's not just that kids who need health insurance but aren't currently covered are screwed. Kids who are.
Like several other major European dynasties, the earliest recorded history of the House of Wettin is found in the tenth century. Through conquest, the family took control of Castle Wettin,.
So this is what George Will is up to these days? Taking out hits on the social work profession? To sum up, somebody passed Will a copy of the latest National Association of Scholars' "report" on the condition of social work education. The NAS --...
Roger takes a closer look. One has to agree with his bottom line about the "Value Voters" summit: "Attendees would be well advised to leave their wallets in their hotel.
Our "new" troll Fred Jones "unhinged liberal" has managed to distill every idiotic argument commonly seen about anti-Roe countermobilization into one comment! Just for fun, let's go through every fallacy.
Tigerhawk on our masthead quote:I actually looked at the title banner of the lefty blog Lawyers, Guns and Money and realized why it is a lefty blog...The founder of that blog is unlikely to succeed in business (were he ever to try), because he has...
Damn lack of comeptitive balance in baseball -- I don't see how small market teams can compete when a big market team can acquire a great reliver like Eric Gagne.
Maureen Dowd invited Stephen Colbert to write her column for her in Sunday's paper. Which was a nice breath of fresh air. Colbert's column is not White House Correspondent Dinner.