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Archive for June, 2005

“Forget president. Report on time machine.”

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

President Bush will deliver a message to the nation tonight from Fort Bragg. The network coverage will begin at 7:00pm central time.
For those who can’t wait, though, Associated Press reporter and Democratic operative Jennifer Loven has already published her report on the speech. With a dateline nearly ten hours before the speech, Loven […]

Pataki tops Rove on Hillary’s enemies list

Friday, June 24th, 2005

New York Governor George Pataki had some choice words for Senator Hillary Clinton (D, NY) on Thursday. She had demanded that he condemn White House advisor Karl Rove for his comments that liberals were–well, liberal. Speaking to reporters, Pataki said:
I think it’s a little hypocritical for Senator Clinton to call on me to […]

Supreme Folly

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

The United States Supreme Court has once again proven why it needs at least one more conservative justice. In their decision handed down today in Kelo v. New London, the court abdicated their duty to enforce the Bill of Rights, especially the Fifth Amendment’s limitation of the states’ power of eminent domain.
Dan Ackman’s salient […]

Happy Father’s Day, Dad

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

Father’s day means quite a lot to me these days. My son Jackson has made the last two extremely special, allowing me to finally see the day from the perspective of the honoree. But the last three have also been special for another reason.
I nearly lost my Dad in January 2003 to a […]

The Xerox is mightier than the pen

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

We’ve all heard someone spread slander while simultaneously condemning it—something like, “Did you hear the rumor that…? Well, I HATE that rumor!” It’s an old joke, but it still seems that people who haven’t heard it (or think that YOU haven’t heard it) are always trying it.
Howard Dean, the outspoken chairman of the […]

“We are our history”

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Yale Professor David Gelernter has written another wonderful commentary that everyone should read and every parent should put into practice.

As ironic as a dumpster full of puppies

Friday, June 17th, 2005

I don’t know what could be more ironic than PETA employees getting arrested for animal cruelty. Perhaps this sad story will force more people to see the hypocrisy of this terrorist-supporting, anti-human organization. Visit petakillsanimals.com (or hundreds of other sites) for more information.
Question: Since PETA asserts that the lives of animals and […]

To those who disapprove of spitting on graves

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

Debra Burlingame is the sister of Captain Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on September 11. She now serves on the Board of Directors of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.
Until I read Ms. Burlingame’s startling editorial, I was […]

The boy who cried vast right wing conspiracy

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

Ken Tipton is a C-list actor who now claims that he was harrassed by Christians back in the 80’s for carrying The Last Temptation of Christ in his video store. Now he’s made a movie called Heart of the Beholder, supposedly based on his story, that casts a boycott of his stores as a […]

By now you’ve heard the big news

Monday, June 13th, 2005

We’ve waited for weeks. We didn’t know what day it would arrive, but we knew it was coming. And now, the thing we never thought would happen has happened. Blue Bell Ice Cream is available in Middle Tennessee! The pride of Brenham, Texas is now being shipped from a brand-new $1.5 […]

Go ask Alice…or Herb

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

A good friend told me yesterday that his wife was interested in a new “anti-aging” pill called Protandim. Turns out Protandim was featured prominently on the ABC News show Primetime Live on Thursday night, and of course I’d missed it. He asked if I knew anything about it and I confessed […]