Archive for February, 2005
Friday, February 25th, 2005
As usual, Ann Coulter's razor sharp claws are deadly accurate. When you separate all the frivolous allegations the attacks all come down to the fact that he's gay. Here's some Ann:
On the op-ed page of The New York Times, Maureen Dowd openly lied about the press pass, saying: ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
Juan Cole does his best to give us the negative spin on democracy in the Middle East in an article entitled, get this, "The Downside of Democracy". What's next, "Oxygen: The Dark Side Conservatives Don't Want You to Know About"? The doom and gloom left never ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
What does selective advocacy of particular rights and freedoms say about the group purporting to advocate them? What affect does such selective advocacy have on the rights themselves?
Powerline links to a great article by Debra Saunders which looks at the differentiation in treatment of two professors, Summers and Churchill. ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Fox News reports that Judge Greer's stay has been extended until 5 pm eastern, Friday, February 25th so that he can have more time to review the case.
They also report that the Florida Department of Children and Families is asking to become involved.
Michael's attorney is calling it an affront to ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
For the past several years we've been hearing a lot about the "Arab Street." Old media reported as if the terrorists' and thugs' views were representative of all Arabs. But a funny thing happened on the way to democracy. The Arab Street started to be redefined to actually include, well, ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
To those Musing Minds readers who requested that I continue to follow this story, here's the update: Looks like the pursuit of Hume is over. I did a scroll down at Kos and nothing. As I originally posted, it didn't look like there was much ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Although I'm not privy to the specific details of the Schiavo case, the notion that the wishes of an estranged husband is given priority over the wishes of the parents seems outrageous.
On one hand we have the parents who have had a life long bond with their daughter. ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Please pray for Terri and her family as they come to a crux in the legal situation.
Her husband has been fighting to end her life for the past eight years stating her wish not to continue living in these circumstances. He will not divorce her. He lives with another woman ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Amir Taheri has a good article about the uprising in Lebanon. He writes:
The genie of people power has come out of the bottle and no amount of political chicanery will send it back in. Nor can Syria dispatch its tanks to crush the demonstrators on the streets of Beirut ...
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Monday, February 21st, 2005
It's amazing how much a couple of lines sums up the approach from the left: "I think it's very important to make charges like that. I think it's very important to combat this kind of activity in every way that you can."
In shorter terms:
1) villify the Bush administration and
2) ...
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