Sep

28

Katrina Time Line

September 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment

With all the mudslinging going on, I figured it might help having a time line of the events leading to Katrina’s landfall. Apparently Nagin and Blanco don’t recall the rejected help when it came early enough. On the other hand many of the ‘rape and murder’ events the media reported never happened either. The original […]

Sep

27

Loving the School System More

September 27, 2005 | 1 Comment

“This school offers services to learning-disabled children,” said Haugh, who appeared tense but composed as she read from a prepared statement and then left the board meeting. “It has not, is not, and will not be a threat to the broad mission of public schools like the Akron Public Schools.”
Board President Paul Allison became emotional […]

Sep

26

Pelosi A Tax Cutter?

September 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment

On Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that she would offer up $70 million, out of the $129 million in highway bill earmarks that she won for her district, to offset the cost of the Katrina relief effort, surpassing the 50 percent target set in the Heritage Foundation???s initial highway bill “give-back” proposal. And […]

Sep

26

Who Dunnit: The Times or New Orleans Officials?

September 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Update on seizing guns in New Orleans.

(Fairfax, VA) — The United States District Court for the Eastern District in Louisiana today sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable and law-abiding victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The New York Times ran the news […]

Sep

25

Identify Everyone But Voters

September 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

A decade ago Hillary Clinton proposed a national ID card for her health care plan (which was ultimately abandoned).
Now, the Federal Commision on Election Reform — led by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker — has endorsed the use of Photo ID cards to reduce voter fraud.
But Hillary isn’t […]

Sep

22

Donations Found at La. Official’s Home

September 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment

BATON ROUGE, La. - Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday.
And we wonder why the local and state goverments of that state couldn’t look out for the best interest of their own state. They […]

Sep

22

Opera Browser Now Free

September 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The Opera Web Browser removes its ad banner and licensing fees.

Sep

22

New Orleans Prioritizes

September 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - In a sign that things may be returning to normal in New Orleans, strip shows are back in the city’s famous French Quarter.

This public service announcement for the tourism department of New Orleans by Reuters reveals top the priorities of a ravished community. There may be many good things going on, […]

Sep

21

24 Hours Till The Money

September 21, 2005 | 1 Comment

Cincinnati Women’s Services will close about 5 p.m. Thursday, when the law takes effect. The clinic cannot accommodate the law’s requirement, director Debi Jackson said.
“I am choosing to close my door,” Jackson said, “because I’m not willing to offer my services in a lesser way than I have before.”
….`Actually, this law is not hampering the […]

Sep

20

Environmentalists Cause Destruction

September 20, 2005 | 1 Comment

… NASA had eliminated the use of Freon in foam production, Mr. Katnik reported. The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., later concluded that the absence of Freon led to the detachment of the foam. While the formulation was later improved, the episode revealed potentially dangerous new ways in which tiles could be damaged… […]

Sep

20

WWF: President vs President?

September 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment

When former President Clinton blasted President Bush, he not only broke with tradition of former presidents O’Reilly laid the facts down. Something Clinton had trouble with.
Again, here are the facts.
Black homeownership is up 2 percent under President Bush.
Poverty spending is significantly higher under Bush than it was under Clinton.
Educational spending for poor […]

Sep

19

US Occupies New Orleans

September 19, 2005 | 1 Comment

But what I saw was a city that is occupied. I saw soldiers walking around in patrols of 7 with their weapons slung on their backs. I wanted to ask one of them what it would take for one of them to shoot me…. George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his […]

Sep

18

Follow The Money

September 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Above all are the profits from abortions themselves. The former Republican counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Manuel Miranda, recently observed that clinics derive an average of $1,000 for each abortion performed.
In its 2002-2003 annual report, Planned Parenthood reported a hefty operating gain of $36.6 million. At a time when companies are struggling to […]

Sep

18

Opponents Will Seek Abortion Law Delay

September 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The law eliminates a minor’s ability to have a judge bypass the consent rule by showing a pattern of abuse by her parents or guardian, and it requires a woman seeking an abortion to meet with a physician at least 24 hours before the procedure to hear mandated information about it.
It appears that facts just […]

Sep

15

Time For Truth On Roe vs Wade

September 15, 2005 | 1 Comment

Blackmun proposed to issue a news release to accompany the decision, issued Jan. 22, 1973. “I fear what the headlines may be,” he wrote in a memo. His statement, never issued, emphasized that the court was not giving women “an absolute right to abortion,” nor was it saying that the “Constitution compels abortion on demand.”

Sen. […]

Sep

14

Freedom’s Source

September 14, 2005 | 1 Comment

RICHMOND, Va. ??? A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a Virginia law requiring public schools to lead a daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance… A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, ruling that the pledge is a patriotic exercise, not an affirmation of religion similar to a prayer.
SAN FRANCISCO […]

Sep

14

Where Are The Enviromentalist Democrats?

September 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Environmental Group Fought New Orleans Levee Project
September 14, 2005 10:24 AM EST
By Sher Zieve - It is reported that since 1965, the environmental group “Save the Wetlands” has fought a levee project that would have protected New Orleans from flooding due to large storms. Claims from Save the Wetlands
Where is the “Save the Wetlands” people […]

Sep

14

EU Courts Muscles Into Brits Homes

September 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment

BRUSSELS has been given the power to compel British courts to fine or imprison people for breaking EU laws, even if the Government and Parliament are opposed.
Roberts criticizes foreign law used as precedent and rightly so. With all the questions going toward Roberts wouldn’t you like to now what Chappaquiddick Kennedy thinks about the […]

Sep

14

Nohoo to Yahoo

September 14, 2005 | 2 Comments

Shi, 37, was convicted in April for ???revealing state secrets,??? by using his email account to post on the Internet a government order barring Chinese media from marking the 15th anniversary of the brutal June 1989 crackdown on democracy activists in Beijing???s Tiananmen Square.
Turning information over to the communist government responsible for killing thousands of […]

Sep

13

Dodging A Bullet In Governor’s Race

September 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Gun owners who vote Republican in next year’s primary will have to choose between Jim Petro and Ken Blackwell, unless one of the two steps down. Some might say that Ken Blackwell is the ideal Governor for the law-abiding gun owner, while others would point to the fact that only Jim Petro has been put […]

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