ABC News is reporting on a new al-Qaeda threat that is posted on the internet as a web ad promising a ‘big surprise’ and ‘Soon … God willing’.
A new al Qaeda propaganda ad, headlined “Wait for the Big Surprise”…

Here is a brief summary of the Jena Six situation -
please read the Jena Six archives here.
At the high school in the 85% white town of Jena, Louisiana, a group of black students found it necessary to ask permission to sit under a tree where white stu…

(Washington Post) Architect: Building Is ‘Very Phallic’
Designer: Architect is being ‘a dick’
(ABC) Release of Ga. Teen Sex Tape Draws Fire
What teen did okay as long as no one can see it
(Reuters) Bush brushes aside Republican …

I mentioned to a commenter that the San Francisco City decision to ban water was not about money, it was about the feel good loution of banning those silly plastic bottles.  Forget recycling, just ban them.

Feel better?

They seem to forget…

The President would have been run out of office in disgrace as a failure and maybe even impeached. The War would have been declared over, the troops brought home and we would have gone our own way and let those with whom we were fighting go their way…..

I tried to weasel mah way out by posting a miniscule, dark, evasive pic of yours truly but some of my friends just won’t let that fly.

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Durbin and Waxman, a pair of tools, seem to think this is going to go their way?
Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president’s budget until Cheney’s office complie…

Yesterday, the editorial board of The NY Times had some advice for the Bush Administration regarding General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan. Of Musharraf the board said…

No doubt we will hear screechings from liberal theologians, but this document issued by the Vatican does nothing more than restate what came out of the Second Vatican Council four decades ago. Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy……

Louisiana Senator David Vitter was clearly after damage control when he sent the email about his phone number being in the DC Madam’s little black book. “This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of……

Proving once again that the paper’s editors consider the US Constitution to be nothing more than toilet paper, today’s editorial insists that the religious beliefs of a well-qualified nominee for public office be scrutinized carefully — and that the…

Wise People Ought To Avoid The Company Of Foolish People
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If Zhang’s corruption led to people dying as the article mentions, the sentence isn’t unreasonable. In South Korea if you’re a businessman whose greed causes a department store to collapse killing 500 people, or you’re an Illinois politician sellin…

WASHINGTON (The Examiner) - In a move that will certainly set into motion hundreds of bloggers and journalists eager to unearth the next Washington sex scandal, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, aka the “DC Madam,” has posted 13 years worth of phone r…

No, not an American FDA official, a former Chinese State Food and Drug Administration director was executed. Why? Under his “tenure his agency approved six medicines that turned out to be fake.” Zheng Xiaoyu lied, and at least 10 people…

(BBC) Buenos Aires sees rare snowfall
Global warming seen as culprit
(Reuters) U.S. cruise missile defense said possible in 14 months
Al-Qaeda, North Korea deadlines announced
(Middle East Times) Iranian man stoned to death for adultery
Bill Clinton ca…

As a conservative might expect, an Al Gore-fest is bound to have plenty of wacky quotes, and this one certainly didn’t disappoint. Today, more than 2 billion of us have come together in more than 130 countries on all seven…

Today’s winner is Isaia Herrera….