Here it is. You knew it was coming. Team Hill's friends in the liberal media are taking a brief respite from trashing Rudy to pitch Phase 2: Nice Hillary. Phase 1 (smart Hillary) was a resounding success. Democrats everywhere are constantly chatting about how smart Hillary is. Now [...]
Michael Barone nails on of my favorite subjects today, the pervasive culture of intolerance at American colleges and universities.
I am old enough to remember when America's colleges and universities seemed to be the most open-minded and intellectually rigorous institutions in our society. Today, something very much like the [...]
Last time it took some real shaky (trying to be kind here) calls to give the Steelers their Super Bowl win. This time it was U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi. The Hawks had the ball for less than 20 minutes and got squashed. And when is Shaun Alexander going [...]
Finally some real news in the 'news': An American genetisist is racing to create a new life form. Is he playing God? I don't think God would do something this stupid. From the Guardian:
Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic [...]
Thank you Columbia University for giving this petty nut Ahmadinejad a cloak of legitimacy today. I know the kids love the attention and President Bollinger got to act like a tough guy. But the whole thing was ridiculous and unnecessary. Did anyone think he was going to answer questions truthfully? [...]
Today was a beautiful day in Eastern Washington. Little cumulus puffballs provide Fall's notice of arrival. I reveled in this refreshing wonder as I blazed across the sagebrushed plain in my loud, fuel-inefficient pickup, turning dollars into carbon debits ... little airborne molecular gifts that the UN will thank me for in a [...]
Summer has turned the corner here in this blast furnace known unromantically as the Tri-Cities. The sun is a little lower in the sky and a cool pleasantness accompanies the evening shade. It's when we NW desert-dwellers reluctantly emerge from our backyard pools, tanned and relaxed of course. There are [...]
The big question out there today is: Will Tony prevail? Or even survive? Like millions I'll be watching to see what happens on the last Sopranos. Well, I'll be recording it - I have kids. For me it will have to wait until everyone is snoozing.
I've been a big fan [...]
Tony Blair on America's role in the world:
"The biggest danger is if America disengages, if it decides to pull up the drawbridge and say to the rest of the world, 'Well you go and sort it out.' We need America engaged."
Blair obviously gets it. And he's paid a [...]
Barack Obama, the new Bill Clinton, today addressed questions regarding his lack of experience:
Addressing the National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by Rev. Al Sharpton, Obama touted his successes as an Illinois lawmaker in providing health insurance to children and reducing the price of prescription [...]
This is a great development, and a significant victory for the Bush Administration. The Bush court rejected a challenge to the nationwide ban of these depraved procedures.
The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does [...]
The anti-gun crowd is barking all over the world. The NY Times is out of the block quickly:
Yesterday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech — the worst in American history — is another horrifying reminder that some of the gravest dangers Americans face come from killers at home armed [...]
Goldy at Horsesass.org is living up to his moniker tonight. Never let it be said the Left would let a horrific crime get in the way of their ideology:
UPDATE:
Unsurprisingly, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit blames the victims:These things do seem to take place in locations where it’s [...]
Maybe it's the usual spring weather here in Eastern Washington farm counrty. Don't get me wrong - it's beautiful, but it can be a tad dusty. Sometimes I think of the old country, which for me was by the gulf stream.
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Tonight the Red Sox Nation was atwitter about zillion-dollar free agent Daisuke Matsuzaka's super-hyped home opener - and his "gyroball" pitch, whatever that is. They should have been watching the best pitcher in the game, Mariner phenom Felix Hernandez.BOSTON (AP) -- Fans were treated to a great pitching [...]
A young Billy Joel nails the activist mindset. If you like piano music, turn up the speakers:
[...]The Tri-Cities keeps right on growing:
The Tri-Cities has been the fastest growing metropolitan area in the state since 2000 in percentage terms, according to new population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Tri-Cities population rose an estimated 17.8 percent from 191,825 in 2000 to 226,033 in [...]
This seals it. I'm voting for Hillary Clinton. She just picked up the prestigious endorsement of Billie Jean King. Billie Jean became famous, of course, by beating an aging man at tennis.
Named one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century" by Life Magazine, King gained worldwide acclaim when [...]
It's been kind of kooky watching Bush bop around Banana Republics, laughing it up with leftists, babbling about Ted Kennedy's legislative prowess, and getting chided by the Mexican leader for stifling "migration". All the while Bush smiles and puts on the charm.
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The first day of the new daylight savings time. We hit 8am Mass expecting to see a thin crowd, but Catholics, at least, have been paying attention to the news. Here in the Tri-Cities, land of 10-acre lawns, we had breaks of sunshine amongst beautiful springtime clouds, the kind that [...]
First I turn 42, and now this. The lead singer from Boston has died. It's official now: the 70's are over.
On the other hand, some of the hottest concert tickets this summer are Jimmy Buffett, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Genesis, the Who, and the Police. Maybe the 70's will [...]
I know, it looks like I gave up blogging for Lent. That would be too easy. Truth is I just haven't been into "news" or "politics" lately. And it's only partly because there is not much of interest in the former or latter. Mostly it is because a break from [...]
Senate Democrats are salivating at a chance for a humiliating retreat in Iraq, ala Vietnam. They are pushing binding legislation that would narrow the mission. Carl Levin puts the usual "pro-troops" spin on his plan to lose:
"That was a wide-open authorization which allowed him to do just about [...]
Poor Al Gore always seems to get topped. He must feel like a piker with his puny doomsday racket. I mean, his little disaster only raises sea levels a few inches. That's peanuts compared to an asteroid hurtling towards earth at a few zillion miles per hour. Before Annoying [...]
These days a Grammy is kind of like an Oscar or a Nobel Peace Prize: if you win one you should probably take a hard look at how much of a nut you've become. Along those lines, the Hollywood Dixie Chicks ran the table at the Grammys. Five awards, including record, album, [...]
When did gays become such haters? When did they get so militant? I shouldn't paint all gays with that brush. The gays I know are embarrassed by idiots like this:
OLYMPIA, Wash. - An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within [...]
This new congress is getting off to an infamous start. First they rammed through a federal minimum wage increase, except for select firms in Nancy Pelosi's district, of course. What they basically will accomplish by this is to limit entry level opportunities for young people.
Now they want to give [...]
Anit-war democrats Pelosi and Murtha head to Baghdad. I'm sure the troops will be flocking by the thousands to meet the democrat leaders who work so hard to undermine their efforts. It's a good bet Pelosi and Murtha will stay far away from any troop areas - surely they don't [...]
Another vintage Pelosi brain dump:
"The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way, that we won't cut off the resources. That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way"
Huh?
Another important anaylsis from the Speaker of the House (sigh).
[...]10+ mil cumulative page views at Orbusmax. A rampart against the destructive blue wave sweeping over the good residents of the NW.
Way to go Orb! Keep up the great work.
[...]Excerpt of an interview with Larry King:
Larry King didn't invent radio or television, or even the talk show (or even the swivel chair, for that matter). But sometimes it seems that way. He'll celebrate his 50th year in broadcasting this spring on CNN, his home for the past quarter-century, [...]
Wow. Usually these days you can just pencil in the AFC winner for the Super Bowl trophy (last year's robbery not withstanding). But after Indy upset Balto and New England upset San Diego, the NFC really has a chance, even if the two teams it is putting up, Chicago [...]
Want to know who is a "talking point" Democrat? Just look for a form of the word "escalate". No matter what media you partake, if you see or hear escalate/escalation you are experiencing Democrat Vietnam Goose-Step Mania.
For these aging, crusted-over hippies, Iraq is just like Vietnam. They hate what we're doing [...]
I guess the notion that Bush was going to roll over for congressional Dems has taken a holiday. The Dems and their media allies beat the hapless Bush about the head with the Iraq stick to gain power this past fall. I'm guessing our new Queen of the Universe, Nancy Pelosi, [...]
Cal Ripken was elected to the Hall Of Fame today.
Pictured here after his last game, along with Eddie Murray, Jim Palmer, Frank Robinson, and Earl Weaver.
Cal won a World Series, a couple MVPs, and set the games streak, but never got his due for his fielding prowess. Other more [...]
Current MSM CW (how's that for acronyms?) is that the Saddam hanging video may make him a martyr:
The unauthorized video, which ignited protests by Saddam's fellow Sunni Arabs in various Iraqi cities, threatens to turn the ousted dictator into a martyr. Saddam was shown never bowing his head [...]
Hillary (prez) and Obama (vice prez) in 2008. So goes the CW. If this is true, it ain't true:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton views Barack Obama as her biggest obstacle to nomination, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report, but she believes the threat of his candidacy will diminish -- [...]
Junior decided not to wait until opening day, or even spring training, to get into his groove. Today he broke his hand at home.
Griffey will have the hand in a hard cast for three weeks, then be re-examined, the team announced Friday. The club wasn't authorized by Griffey to [...]
Today the Dow was up on news that Donald Trump gave Miss USA Tara Conner a second chance. Clearly this is great news for America and the Dow responded by hitting a record high (again).
Meanwhile, the Nasdaq fell on worries that Mount St Helens may [...]
