Sometimes a story is pretty uneventful, but one line makes me laugh out loud. This is one of those cases: The U.S. Army, which missed its recruiting goal last year, has relaxed its policy banning certain types of tattoos in a bid to attract new soldiers who otherwise would have been barred from serving. The …
Archives for March 2006
The National Security Battle
The Democrats unveiled their plan: Emboldened by President Bush’s declining approval ratings, Democrats unveiled a national security platform yesterday for the midterm elections that stresses renewed focus on capturing Osama bin Laden, reducing the U.S. presence in Iraq and stepped up protection at home. The new strategy, which comes after months of deliberations and several …
Please Explain
If any of you can explain how this post and this ‘investigation’ by the Wonkette folks is anything more than piling on, butting into someone’s professional career, and just plain run-of-the-mill assholishness, I am all ears. Hey WOnkette- It is none of your damned business. What do you people want- the guy dead, for goodness …
To The Big House
Abramoff gets the minimum: Jack A. Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist at the center of a major corruption scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in prison for his role in the fraudulent purchase of a fleet of casino cruise ships. An associate received the same sentence. I would be willing to …
Score One for Free Speech
I missed this too– the FEC has decided to protect fully and completely political bloggers: I am pleased that it appears we have a consensus today and will establish several important protections for online political speech. This has been a very difficult rulemaking on multiple levels. However, if the Commission adopts the proposed final rules …
More on Immigration
I have a confession to make. I simply can not get worked up about immigration. At all. I can’t even remember if I had strong opinions about it in the past (although I wager if I had an opinion, it was a strong one). Memeorandum has a slew of links up, and I tried to …
What to Make of This?
I really don’t know what to make of this: Thousands of students walked out of high schools in Los Angeles and across Southern California this morning as protests against restrictions on immigration spread across the city for a fourth day. School walkouts were reported at schools in San Diego and Orange counties, and in the …