Author: Sister Toldjah

I wanted to repost something I posted over at Hot Air a few days ago. I’ve edited and added some stuff to this post that I couldn’t do at HA, because I couldn’t go back and edit my post at HA. Some of the points I made in the following post I made in my […]

Here’s an interesting tidbit of news, via Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter: Prominent Democrats are upset with the aggressive role that Bill Clinton is playing in the 2008 campaign, a role they believe is inappropriate for a former president and the titular head of the Democratic Party. In recent weeks, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, […]

The Democratic party’s desire to go ahead and crown Obama as their next Great Leader continues as the war on criticizing his record rages on. Via Mike Allen at The Politico: Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the second-ranking party leader in the Senate, says President Bill Clinton’s comments about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) are getting […]

I opted to watch the two wildcard playoff games last night, but thankfully Michelle Malkin liveblogged both the Dem and Republican debates that were held in New Hampshire yesterday evening, just three days before the New Hampshire primaries. To get a good feel for what happened at both debates, make sure to visit those two […]

… and the far left, predictably, are losing it. Publius Pundit has the details on the official NYT announcement of the Weekly Standard editor’s hiring, as well as links to the foaming at the mouth frenzy on display this weekend by The Usual Suspects, who are wondering if the NYT will “balance” Kristol with another […]

Here’s a heartwarming holiday story that will be sure to tug at your heartstrings: ALBANY, Ga. – A military working dog wounded in Iraq during a rocket attack that killed its Marine handler was adopted Friday by the slain Marine’s family. Cpl. Dustin Lee’s family planned to take home the bomb-sniffing dog — named Lex […]

Michelle Malkin has been following closely the murder of Ontario 16 year-old Aqsa Parvez, who was killed by her father in what has been described as an apparent “honor killing.” Here was the National Post’s story on the murder: TORONTO — A Mississauga, Ont., cab driver has been charged with the murder of his 16-year-old […]

One of their favorite retired Generals, Major General John Batiste, who appeared in an ad for the anti-war Vote Vets website, and who had an op/ed published on the liberal anti-war website Think Progress in August in which he called for the US to “begin a responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq,” has apparently changed […]

A black firefighter has admitted to staging a fake “hate crime” at a fire station in East Baltimore. Via the Baltimore Sun (emphasis added): A firefighter who reported finding a knotted rope and a threatening note with a drawing of a noose in an East Baltimore station house last month had placed the items there […]

Here’s the latest from the cult of “man-made” global warming alarmism: —- The Daily Mail reports on women and couples who have either aborted their babies in the name of “reducing” their “carbon footprint,” or opted to be sterilized in order to prevent bringing a baby into the world who would do nothing but ‘unnecessarily […]

And once again the news has nothing to do with embryonic stem cell research: NEW YORK — Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy. Laboratory teams on two continents report […]

Remember last month when the anti-war feminista fruitcakes at Coke Pink defaced the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley? Well, they haven’t given up on their plans to try and have it shut down. W. Thomas Smith, Jr. braved the fever swamps of the Code Pink website and found out their Thanksgiving week plans for the […]

Motor-mouth Chavez ran into something in Chile he likes to violently suppress at home: opposition (emphasis added): SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to “shut up” Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Chavez, who called President Bush the […]

The AP reports that thousands of Baghdad residents have returned to their much safer city (h/t: ST reader forest hunter): BAGHDAD – In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said […]

Last Thursday, I blogged about House Ways and Means Chair Charlie Rangel’s “tax reform” plan, which really does nothing but trade off one set of bad tax laws for another set. But Rangel’s plan, as bad as it is, pales in comparison to the type of “tax reform” plan former Clinton Sec. of Labor Robert […]

It was a good day yesterday for Republicans, and an especially good day for Louisiana as Rep. Bobby Jindal was elected Saturday as governor: BATON ROUGE, La. – U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state’s first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India […]

Cross-posted from the Sister Toldjah blog. In light of the Larry Craig scandal and the schadenfreude the far left has been expressing over his downfall, Jonah Goldberg has a must-read piece up today in which he writes about the left and how they have no room to talk about hypocrisy as it relates to moralizing: […]

Via Reuters: WASHINGTON – President Bush Monday spared former vice presidential aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby from going to prison for 2 1/2 years for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, a White House official said. The official said Bush “has commuted the prison sentence … leaving intact the probation and fines handed down by the court.” […]

Looks like things aren’t going too well for the ‘maverick’ Republican from Arizona’s campaign, especially lately: John McCain’s campaign, trailing top Republican rivals in money and polls, is undergoing a significant reorganization with staff cuts in every department, officials with knowledge of the shake-up said Monday. Some 50 staffers or more are being let go, […]

And are trying to restore some sense of normalcy: BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – Still grieving and increasingly wary of the media spotlight, Virginia Tech students returned to their beleaguered campus Sunday, preparing to salvage the final weeks of a semester eclipsed by violence. The scene on campus resembled move-in day in late summer, with parents […]