With the stroke of a pen, the wisdom of a single man makes it a civil “right” to call your union whatever you wish — against the wishes of the state’s electorate. Let’s hear it for the philosopher kings! From the Chicago Tribune: A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning gay marriage. The ruling by Judge Robert Hanson concluded that the state’s prohibition on same-sex marriage
August 30, 2007
August 30, 2007
“Anatomy of a Tribal Revolt” (or, Big Storying, cont)
Gary Schamburg emails: […] if you read between the lines, there never was a true civil war in Iraq. Al Qaeda hoped to play on the fears of a fight between Sunn’i and Shi’ite, and our media played up those fears with civil war stories. But, the situation wasn’t pitting Sunn’i vs Shi’ite, as the article points out — it’s a different paradigm in Iraq. I’ve been excoriated on a
August 30, 2007
BREAKING NEWS ON TRADING ROOM WIRES: Nerve gas found at UN Bldg [UPDATED]
“Evacuations in progress. Still unconfirmed by any major media sources.” (h/t Old Texas Turkey, in the comments here). More as it develops (or fizzles). update: From ABC’s Brian Ross, writing for The Blotter: United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York this morning, federal authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
August 30, 2007
“Marine to sue Murtha over irresponsible Haditha accusations”
From Newsmax: If Marine Col. Jeffrey Chessani is exonerated of the charges against him he may haul Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha, into court, suing him for libel, one of his lawyers told NewsMax.com. Brian Rooney, one of the attorneys at Michigan’s Thomas More Law Center representing Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani and a former Marine captain himself told NewsMax.com that his client, who is alleged to have failed to fully
August 30, 2007
More Big Picturing
An addendum to Karl’s post, courtesy Major General James E. Simmons, Deputy Commanding General for Support of Multi-National Forces, Iraq, [JS] who was yesterday interviewed by Hugh Hewitt [HH]. Here’s what he has to say about conditions in Basra, which we’ve been told by the mainstream press has been overtaken by radicals in the vacuum left behind by a British force withdrawal: JS: [Those reports] are not accurate, and that
August 30, 2007
Public Ablution [Dan Collins]
Back in the day, I bagged lots of chicks in public bathrooms. Discuss.
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on the WaPo story touting an unnamed official’s leaking of a “strikingly negative” draft progress report on the surge strategy
Garrett: “I once had an unsourced leak myself, but a doctor at the clinic on Sunset was able to treat it with an aggressive regimen of hot compresses and ciprofloxacin. “It wasn’t until much later that I found out who gave me the damn thing — and I can almost guarantee you she knew what she was doing, having never really gotten over the one time she came off the