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Raise your hand if you think DDT usage was the prime reason for the endangerment of the bald eagle population … Yep, there are a lot of hands still up in the air despite facts that have proven this fallacy to the contrary. News of the resurgence in Pennsylvania’s bald eagle population was recently reported, [...]

Frankly, a Giuliani nomination would be an impressive step forward for a new Republican party, but if McCain won’t get the nomination…can Rudy? I have my doubts. Robert Novak shares similar sentiments: Republican insiders respond to these numbers by saying rank-and-file GOP voters will abandon Giuliani once they realize his position on abortion, gay rights [...]

It’s a difficult thing to think that 19 possibly al Qaeda members are going to get off with no charges, but that’s the law…in Yemen. From CNN: SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — The trial of 19 alleged al Qaeda members had been designed to showcase how serious Yemen was in the fight against terror. But the [...]

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The L.A. Times has a great editorial about the frustrating attempts by the Daily Kosers and others to bring down Lieberman. A taste… Democratic voters in Connecticut have the right to nominate the candidate of their choice. But it is more than a little disturbing for the longtime popular senator (and the party’s 2000 nominee [...]

Not much to say about this right now except that two terrorism plots (Sears Towerbeing the other) caught in the very early stages = great news. And that’s where the silver lining can be found. The “Miami Seven” were apparently not very smart and their plans were early. This latest plot is being characterized as [...]

I wrote earlier — and disapprovingly — about a suit filed by Texas Democrats to keep Tom DeLay’s name on the ballot. Well, get this: they won. The Texas Republican Party must keep Tom DeLay’s name on the November election ballot, even though the former congressman has dropped his re-election bid, a federal judge ruled [...]

(h/t: NeoMugWump…and by the way, go over and read what Dennis Sanders has to say about this)

Yale isn’t going to let a former Taliban member get a degree… A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program at Yale, one of the student’s financial supporters said yesterday. However…they’re still letting him roam the campus? The [...]

If he gets significant arms from North Korea, quite possibly. From the World Tribune: North Korea and Venezuela are discussing a strategic alliance motivated by a common goal â€â€? expanding anti-American forces. During Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in late July, the two countries are also expected to craft [...]

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Note to Iraq leaders…the US has tried this before…it doesn’t work. The enemy of your enemy is still your enemy. Especially in this new Islamic extremist fight we find ourselves in. Example: Osama Bin Laden. And we’ve seen how that movie ends already. I’m not too keen on seeing the sequel. From USA Today: BAGHDAD [...]

Personally, I think increasing the minimum wage is long overdue and needs to happen more often. Read the following and tell me what you think. WASHINGTON — With Democrats plotting to make the minimum wage a major issue in this fall’s congressional races, House Republican leaders are conceding that they may have to yield to [...]

…well, except for France. Just kidding! Happy 4th of July!!!

Well, you can’t say that you didn’t see this one coming… SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea vowed on Monday to respond with an “annihilating” nuclear strike if it is attacked pre-emptively by the United States. The Bush administration responded sternly, saying while it had no intention of attacking, it was determined to protect the [...]

The title says it all. Key sentence: The payments now account for nearly half of the nation’s expanding agricultural subsidy system, a complex web that has little basis in fairness or efficiency. From the Washington Post.

A couple of days ago I did something I didn’t want to do. I banned a frequent commenter from the site for suggesting that a NY Times editor should be handed over to terrorists. Why was he so angry that he said something like this? Well, because the NY Times printed information about the government [...]