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Sunday, June 22
Weekend Boxoffice Numbers for June 22nd, 2008
by
Riley Jones
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 06:43 PM EDT
Get Smart did ok, with a gross just under $40m for the weekend. The Love Guru was a bombed and failed to reach even $15 million. More>>>
Official: Mugabe wins "re-election" after opposition pulls out; UN ignores
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 03:50 PM EDT
Robert Mugabe apparently retained his presidential post Sunday after the opposition candidate dropped out of this week's runoff because, he said, asking Zimbabweans to vote was asking them to risk their lives. More>>>
Gay marriage backers sue to remove a proposed state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage from the November ballot
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 03:45 PM EDT
"Equality California and its allies are desperate to evade democracy," said attorney Glen Lavy of the Alliance Defense Fund, which represented the Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund. Prop. 22 was the 2000 ballot measure, approved by 61 percent of the voters, that declared same-sex marriages illegal, reaffirming a statute passed by the Legislature in 1977. "First, they used the courts to erase the votes of nearly 5 million Californians who voted to protect marriage," Lavy said, referring to the balloting on Prop. 22. "Now they are trying to silence the people's voice forever. This is just another attempt to force a radical political agenda upon the people of California." More>>>
Only in America: UAE's DP World, prohibited last year from buying key American ports, now certified to provide port security!
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 03:32 PM EDT
The leading Gulf firm in the United Arab Emirates whose plans to operate six U.S. ports was last year rebuffed by Congress, has been certified as a partner in a U.S. port security program. More>>>
Postcard from America: affirmative action gone mad
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 02:33 PM EDT
Here in the land of the free and the brave, some liberals are looking more like cowards not much interested in real freedom. They have basically conceded that their ideas are on the losing side in the free market of ideas. Why else would some Democrats – and their think tank boosters – be calling, once again, for laws that mandate equal time on talk back radio for left-wing voices and right wing voices? More>>>
Newsbusters: Babalu Blog Bombshell: Obama Personally Told Campaign Volunteer to Shut Up About Che Guevara Flag
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 02:27 PM EDT
If there were ever a reason that illustrates why newspapers are dying and the mainstream media isn't trusted by many people, this story from the Babalu Blog is a perfect example. Last February, your humble correspondent posted a Newsbusters blog about the studied incuriosity of the MSM over the Che Guevara flag hanging in the office of Barack Obama campaign volunteer, Maria Isabel... More>>>
Newsbusters: New York Times Outs CIA Operative!
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 02:22 PM EDT
Of course, this is just the latest in a long string of Times articles that have leaked classified and guarded information critical to America's security and that of its people and public servants. Alert readers have long since stopped expecting any level of consistency from the same liberal media that was obsessed with the naming of Valerie Plame (though they've been considerably less obsessed with the actual source of Robert Novak's column, Richard Armitage) More>>>
The Facts in Iraq Are Changing
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 02:10 PM EDT
As we enter the second half of the campaign year, facts are undermining the Democratic narrative that has dominated our politics since about the time Hurricane Katrina rolled into the Gulf coast -- most importantly, the facts about Iraq. During the Democratic primary season, all the party's candidates veered hardly a jot or tittle from the narrative that helped the Democrats sweep the November 2006 elections. Iraq is spiraling into civil war, we invaded unwisely and have botched things ever since, no good outcome is possible, and it is time to get out of there.. More>>>
Conservative Blacks Choose Pigment Over Principle
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 02:07 PM EDT
In the mid 1980’s I debated Gloria Steinhem on the Phil Donahue show, during the presidential campaign where Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman Vice Presidential candidate. The assumption by feminists, like Gloria, was that all women should vote for Geraldine because she was a woman. I asked her if she would be supporting Phyllis Schlafly if she were the candidate instead of Geraldine and if she would be offended if I made that same assumption... More>>>
Return of the Math Wars
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 02:04 PM EDT
1997 saw the height of the Math Wars in California. On the one side stood educrats who advocated mushy math -- or new-new math. They sought to de-emphasize math skills, such as multiplication and solving numeric equations, in favor of pushing students to write about math and how they might solve a problem. Their unofficial motto was: There is no right answer. (Even to 2 plus 2.) They were clever. More>>>
Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 01:59 PM EDT
The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer. The results have shocked campaigners who hoped that doubts would have been silenced by a report last year by more than 2,500 scientists for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) More>>>
Forbes: Picking A Renewable Energy Path
by
Riley Jones
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 08:24 AM EDT
Faced with skyrocketing energy prices, many companies are scrambling to pick alternative energy sources. But few markets are so riddled with complexities and caveats. Solar panels perform best in sunny spots, but a company may need a government subsidy to justify the investments; other alternatives come with footnotes and small print. How does a company decide which renewable source is best? More>>>
All New- Celebrities Caught Without Makeup
by
Riley Jones
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 08:12 AM EDT
Helena Bonham Carter Sure celebrities look glamorous when they’re camera-readied by the best stylists, makeup artists and hairdressers their overpriced designer purses can buy. It’s enough to leave the rest of us feeling a little ordinary. But outside of the “lights, camera, action,” even celebrities lose their glam factor when they’re snapped sans makeup. Check out the celebrities caught without makeup in the link below. More>>>
Sobering footage of the Scott Kalitta crash on June 21st, 2008
by
Riley Jones
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 08:03 AM EDT
FactCheck checks in...
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 01:49 AM EDT
Obama says McCain is "fueled" by money from lobbyists and PACs, but those sources account for less than 1.7 percent of McCain's money. More>>> Contradictions and misstatements short-circuit McCain's energy policy pronouncements. More>>> Obam's first ad of the post-primary season puffs up his legislative accomplishments. More>>>
Salon.com: Obama's Betrayal of his base and the flip-flop on FISA
by
Riley Jones
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 12:36 AM EDT
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com: "In the past 24 hours, specifically beginning with the moment Barack Obama announced that he now supports the Cheney/Rockefeller/Hoyer House bill, there have magically arisen -- in places where one would never have expected to find them -- all sorts of claims about why this FISA "compromise" isn't really so bad after all. People who spent the week railing against Steny Hoyer as an evil, craven enabler of the Bush administration -- or who spent the last several months identically railing against Jay Rockefeller -- suddenly changed their minds completely when Barack Obama announced that he would do the same thing as they did. What had been a vicious assault on our Constitution, and corrupt complicity to conceal Bush lawbreaking, magically and instantaneously transformed into a perfectly understandable position, even a shrewd and commendable decision, that we should not only accept, but be grateful for as undertaken by Obama for our Own Good." Sorry for using the pic at the top so often, but ya know... it really, really fits these zealous, fanatical, mindless Obamamites. -Riley More>>> |
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