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Archive for July, 2005

We’re all in orbit today

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Congratulations to NASA and the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery on this morning’s successful launch of the first manned U.S. space mission since the loss of Columbia. Godspeed, guys.

Terrorists can write grant proposals!

Friday, July 15th, 2005

Today the news media are filled with stories that the supposed mastermind of the 7/7 London bombings has been captured in Egypt. This is really great news, and I congratulate those responsible for his apprehension.
What I haven’t seen, however, is that the suspect, Egyptian biochemist Magdy Mahmoud Mostapha al-Nashar (formerly of the University of […]

London attacked

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

Please pray for our brothers in arms in the United Kingdom, where the War on Terror has opened another front.

Happy Birthday, Governor Winfield Dunn

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Born in Meridian, Mississippi on July 1st, 1927, Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II, then returned to graduate from the University of Mississippi with a B.B.A. in 1950, and from the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis with a D.D.S. in 1955.
Dunn started […]