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Put Career Criminals In Jail & Throw Away The Key

Put Career Criminals In Jail & Throw Away The Key: I’m a big supporter of laws that are very tough on repeat offenders,” but some people — judges included — don’t agree. Here’s one case in question… ” A judge reluctantly gave a man life in prison after a $20 burglary, saying he had no […]

CNN to Package News by Topical Themes

CNN to Package News by Topical Themes By Scott Ott: As the major news organizations go into their annual summer re-run cycle, CNN announced today it will package its programming in topical categories as “headline theme shows”. Among the categories scheduled for rebroadcast: — Arab TV airs more tapes from guys we thought we had […]

Critiquing Glenn Reynolds Advice For Democrats

Critiquing Glenn Reynolds’ Advice For Democrats: Glenn Reynolds pointed out a few issues he thought the Democrats should hit in 2004. Here is the crux of what Reynolds had to say with my thoughts afterwards… “…(T)he administration’s unwillingness to look into the intelligence failures leading up to September 11. That the September 11 attacks occurred […]

FAQS & Advertisers

FAQS & Advertisers: Two things… 1) There are three sets of frequently asked questions I’m looking to work on: A) An Israel FAQ: Any questions people have about Israel’s history will be discussed. Things like the USS Liberty, Israeli spy rings, & Sabra & Shatila will be covered. B) An Iraqi War FAQ: This will […]

Radio Interview With Patrick Johnston

Radio Interview With Patrick Johnston: I did an interview today with Patrick Johnston of AM 1430 WION. He’s on in the Western/Central Michigan region and his show runs between 10:00am to 11:30am. The interview will be running tomorrow. Unfortunately, there’s no internet feed so you won’t be able to hear it unless you live in […]

Good News From Iraq

Good News From Iraq: Amir Taheri has spent several days in Iraq and what he found largely flies in the face of the negative spin our press has put on things… “…ONE fact is that a visitor to Iraq these days never finds anyone who wants Saddam back. There are many complaints, mostly in Baghdad, […]

Download A Song, Go To Jail

Download A Song, Go To Jail: I masticated Orrin Hatch back in June for advocating the destruction of hundreds of thousands of PCs because it “may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights”. As bad as that was, Democrats John Conyers and Howard Berman have gone one step farther; they want to […]

White House Says Deficit Will Reach $455 Billion This Year, But Doesn’t Want To Control Spending

White House Says Deficit Will Reach $455 Billion This Year, But Doesn’t Want To Control Spending: Here are a few budget numbers…. “The Federal budget deficit will be $455 billion, roughly 50 percent larger than the White House estimated in February, the President’s Office of Management and Budget said this afternoon. …The sluggish economy, the […]

Bush Pushed Dubious Claim About Saddam’s Sanity By Scott Ott

Bush Pushed Dubious Claim About Saddam’s Sanity By Scott Ott: The American Psychiatric Association today challenged President George Bush’s pre-war claims that Saddam Hussein was a “madman.” The original data for the assertion came from a British dossier which was based on a French summary of an Italian intelligence briefing intercepted by the CIA in […]

Lying About Lying In The SOTU Speech

Misrepresenting What Bush Actually Said In The SOTU Speech: There sure are a lot of people out there playing fast & loose with the truth about what Bush actually said in his State of the Union Speech. Again here’s the controversial line from the speech… “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought […]

More Things To Ponder

More Things To Ponder:Here are some things I wanted to mention that probably weren’t quite developed enough to merit their own posts… — Today, Senator Hillary Clinton, the woman many Dems want to run for President said this…. “Asked whether she regretted voting for the war resolution, Clinton said “I’m going to reserve judgment until […]

Pat Robertson, The Crazy Aunt In The Basement Of The Republican Party

Pat Robertson, The Crazy Aunt In The Basement Of The Republican Party: First there was this… “Charles Taylor, the Liberian president who has been indicted by an international court for crimes against humanity, has few remaining supporters in the United States. But one prominent American who has stuck with the West African leader is religious […]

Heredity Caused Death Sentence in ‘Bad Blood’ Case By Scott Ott

Heredity Caused Death Sentence in ‘Bad Blood’ Case By Scott Ott: Pennsylvania jurors who sentenced Landon May to death in December credit heredity for their decision. Mr. May, who with an accomplice tortured and murdered a man and woman, and raped the woman, has appealed the sentence on the grounds that he inherited “bad blood” […]

I Get Letters — Bush In 2004

I Get Letters — Bush In 2004: A letter I received from a reader and my reply… Dear John, I don’t expect an answer to this e-mail, but I just wanted to express my frustration and you seem to be a reasonable guy who can understand what I am going through. I am neither a […]

Blogger Symposium — The War On Terrorism

Blogger Symposium — The War On Terrorism: I got together with Venomous Kate from Electric Venom, Kathy Kinsley from On The Third Hand, Lee from Right-Thinking From The Left Coast, & Sparkey from Sgt. Stryker’s Daily Briefing (who showed up late) and discussed the war on terrorism last night. Read & enjoy the edited transcript […]

More Things To Ponder

More Things To Ponder: — Don’t get too excited since we’ve had a number of false starts already, but… “THE US has discovered what it believes is decisive proof of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs and taken the material to the US for testing. US Undersecretary of State John Bolton told The Weekend Australian […]

Bush To Personally Verify Future CIA Reports

Bush To Personally Verify Future CIA Reports By Scott Ott: In an effort to make sure all of his public statements are accurate, U.S. President George Bush said today that he will personally verify all CIA reports before using them publicly. “I regret that I didn’t go to Niger to check out that uranium sale […]

My 11 Favorite Women Bloggers

My 11 Favorite Women Bloggers: Just for the heck of it, here are my favorite blogs done by women — in order. **Just as a side note, these sorts of lists change all the time depending on my mood, how often their page is being updated, etc. So don’t take it personally if you were […]

An Interesting Ethical Question

An Interesting Ethical Question: Once this comes into being, it will revolutionize warfare & perhaps the world… “The U.S. military’s research wing is seeking to develop a new generation of unmanned aircraft able to blow up terrorist camps or other targets anywhere in the world, without relying on overseas bases or slow-moving manned warplanes. “It’s […]

More Niger Forgery Spin From The Press

More Niger Forgery Spin From The Press: Since the bogus document from Niger is hot right now, I thought I’d tackle a ridiculous piece of left-wing spin from CBS that actually comes close to being pure anti-Bush propaganda. It’s titled, “Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False“. Those are pretty strong words right? Well, let’s dig […]

Rewriting History To Attack Bush On Iraq

Rewriting History To Attack Bush On Iraq: If you picked up a paper in the last week or so, you probably got the impression that George Bush spent a year demanding an Iraqi invasion based on claims that Saddam had reconstituted nuclear weapons with uranium bought in Niger. But now that the war is over, […]

Posse Power

Posse Power By Frank J.: Whatever happened to the posse? Used to be whenever something went wrong, a group of angry people with guns would get together and take care of it. Nowadays, it always seems the answer is to sit on one’s lazy ass and either ignore it or call the police. Well, I’m […]

Dusty Baker Worried About President’s Africa Trip

Dusty Baker Worried About President’s Africa Trip By Scott Ott: Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker said he’s concerned that U.S. President George Bush’s pale skin pigment might cause problems for him during his current tour of African nations. “He should have sent Colin Powell or Condi Rice,” said Mr. Baker, whose recent comments about the […]

I Stand Corrected, This Is The Worst Forum Thread Ever

I Stand Corrected, This Is The Worst Forum Thread Ever: The first ACPOTI articles I ever did was called, “The Most Idiotic Commentary Ever. But that one isn’t even in the same ball park as these comments that I found at a website called “Osama Bin Laden — Messenger Of Peace, Prophet Of Change“. You […]