This all sounds eerily familiar. KEY WEST, Fla. – Residents of the Florida Keys exhaled after Hurricane Rita largely spared the island chain, while those in Texas and already-battered Louisiana fretted the strengthening storm could become a Katrina-esque monster and target them by week’s end. Rita was upgraded to a Category 3 storm early Wednesday [...]

The man who shot Reagan is being okayed by hospital therapists. Could he be fooling them? Who knows… From Breitbart. John Hinckley’s relationships with women are normal, two of his therapists testified Tuesday, disagreeing with suggestions by government attorneys that the presidential assailant is not yet ready for lengthy visits to his parents’ home in [...]

Recall-happy St Louis has recalled an Alderman for the third time in two years. This time, Alderman Thomas E. Bauer was recalled as a result of an Eminent Domain dispute. Bauer’s recall marks the end of a bitter dispute anchored in Dogtown, a rapidly-growing neighborhood in southwest St. Louis. A plan supported by Bauer to [...]

The Holocaust survivor who helped bring war criminals to justice has shuffled off this mortal coil. Wiesenthal, who died Tuesday in his sleep at his Vienna home at age 96, was driven by his memories of the Holocaust to fight for justice for its victims, dedicating himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to [...]

Here she comes. GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) — With Hurricane Rita intensifying as it treks westward through the Gulf of Mexico, the mayor of Galveston declared a state of emergency Tuesday night. Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas ordered mandatory evacuations of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities starting at 6 a.m. Wednesday. She also said mandatory evacuations of [...]

…but one journalist certainly thinks he may be incompetent… At least that’s what Richard Cohen says in an editorial in the LA Times recently. If you told me that George W. Bush is a dummy, I would argue with you but understand why you thought so: all those idiotic statements. But if you told me, [...]

Well, well, well… This is certainly surprising. In announcing his decision in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor, Mr. Reid questioned Judge Roberts’s commitment to civil rights and said he was “very swayed” by the civil rights and women’s rights leaders who testified Thursday in opposition to the nomination – and with whom Mr. [...]

Unfortunately they don’t take her to task for her many misguided comments. Instead, they highlight her criticism of Hillary Clinton. Something tells me this is going to help Hillary. “I hate to be harsh,â€Â? she said, “but we’re not accepting any excuses for not bringing our troops home.â€Â? But Sheehan isn’t stopping her critique with [...]

The old guard is hurtin’ for certain. NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times Co. said Tuesday it would cut about 500 jobs, or about 4 percent of its work force, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce costs. The reductions come atop another 200 jobs that were cut earlier this year. The [...]

The internet radio program I was on about a month ago is celebrating their very first anniversary tomorrow. Definitely tune in. SUBJECT2DISCUSSION the news and comment webcast and podcast with bloggers marks its anniversary this coming Wednesday September 21 at 6pm PST/8pm CST/9pm EST LIVE on LVROCKS.COM. Go to www.LVROCKS.com click on LISTEN and click [...]

First Paris Hilton and now Ashton Kutcher? When will the senseless hacking of celebrities phones end? Frankly, it’s a bit ironic and poetic justice considering Ashton is responsible for messing with so many other’s lives on his MTV show Punk’d. So check out www.ashtonhacked.com and listen to his voicemails. Funny stuff, if for no other [...]

More scenes like this, please. Oh, I know “white shoes after Labor Day,” and that dress on the poor thing on the far right just screams “Goth-slut-cum-Lawrence-Welk-singer.” But consider the obstacles. This is the “Miss Seamline” beauty pageant, underway today in the Israeli town of Gilo, near Bethlehem, on the West Bank. Both Israeli and [...]

Wow. This is a bit of a surprise. American Spectator is an extremely conservative mag and a very loyal foot solider. For them to break ranks at this point means there’s definitely something afoot. Political independents take note. With many upset at Bush’s policies, your time is fast approaching. Publicly, the White House will tell [...]

The Zimbabwe despot keeps telling lies. The problem is reliance on corn, he said during Friday’s interview, “but it doesn’t mean we haven’t other things to eat: We have heaps of potatoes but people are not potato eaters … they have rice but they’re not as attracted (to that).” But the cost of potatoes is [...]

Dean Esmay links to an interesting story about do-it-yourselfers who convert the oil used to cook french fries into extremely cost efficient fuel. From the Smithsonian: Every few weeks, Etta Kantor goes to a Chinese restaurant and fills a couple of five-gallon pails with used cooking oil. Back in her garage, the 59-year-old philanthropist and [...]

Corruption in DC. Who’d a thunk it? David Hossein Safavian, the Bush administration’s top federal procurement officer in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), was arrested yesterday based on a three-count criminal complaint filed in federal court, according to a Justice Department statement. The government alleges that Safavian, as chief of staff at the [...]

Jimmy Carter and James Baker have been leading a panel in studying how to improve confidence in the US electoral system. Among the panel’s recommendations are ‘electronic voting machines should have paper trails’ and ‘all voters should present photo IDs.’ The call for paper verification of votes on electronic machines drew praise from election reform [...]

Time for a new approach in Iraq? Instead of a timetable for withdrawal, the United States needs a real strategy built around the principles of counterinsurgency warfare. To date, U.S. forces in Iraq have largely concentrated their efforts on hunting down and killing insurgents. The idea of such operations is to erode the enemy’s strength [...]

Sometimes those who think anyone could do a better job helping hurricane victims than the “racist” Bush Administration have to try it out to discover life isn’t that simple. And leftist anti-war triumphalism has a way of vanishing overnight.

Alan Johnson, has launched a new free online review of books called Democratiya. Via this site, I read a review of A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq,” a book which “brings together 23 voices of critical support for the liberation of Iraq from both sides of the Atlantic.” Based on a [...]