Bubba Being Told By Top Democrats To Back Off

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, […]

 

Dick Durbin Joins Growing List of People “Warning” Bill Clinton Not To Attack Obama’s Record

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 […]

 

Last Night’s Debates

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 […]

 


Man’s Best Friend Adopted By His Family

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 […]

 

The Sad Case of Aqsa Parvez

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 […]

 

Bad News for the Anti-War Left

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 […]

 

Fake “Hate Crime” Incident in Baltimore

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 […]

 

“Man-made” Global Warming News and Notes

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 […]

 

More Breakthroughs in Stem Cell Research

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 […]

 


Somebody Had To Say It

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 […]

 

3,000 Iraqi Families Return to Safer Baghdad

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 […]

 


Rep. Bobby Jindal Wins Louisiana Governor’s Race

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 […]

 

Jonah Goldberg On The “Moralizing” Left

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: […]

 

Breaking News: Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence

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.” […]

 

McCain Campaign Set To Make Cutbacks In Staff

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, […]

 

VTech Students Return To Class Today

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 […]