USA Today reports: Days after a Senate committee approved $1 million for a Woodstock concert museum, the project’s Republican billionaire backer and his family contributed $29,200 to help the Democrats who requested the money, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer. … The New York senators put their names jointly on all their earmark requests,…
Month: October 2007
Reporters’ Shield Bill Passes House
Reuters says: The House of Representatives defied a White House veto threat on Tuesday and overwhelmingly passed legislation that would protect reporters from being jailed for refusing to reveal confidential sources. By a vote of 398 to 21, the House sent to the Senate a bill that would prohibit prosecutors from forcing reporters to reveal…
Funky Winkerbean Causes Controversy
From Fox News: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But did the creator of the comic strip "Funky Winkerbean" take the "awareness" part too far? … The decision by cartoonist Tim Batiuk to have Lisa Moore, the cartoon strip’s wife, mother and lawyer, succumb to breast cancer last week has sparked both praise and anger,…
China: U.S. Shouldn’t Approve of Dalai Lama
Reuters says: China expressed fury on Tuesday that the United States is to honor the Dalai Lama with an award and warned that the activities of his supporters were increasing in Chinese-controlled Tibet. The Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since staging a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, is to…
Fox, Navarette on Illegal Immigration
Ruben Navarrette says that Americans cannot blame immigration on Mexico and that country’s economic policies. Oh, it’s true that the United States is a country of immigrants. But in this case, what matters is that this also happens to be a country full of people who hire illegal immigrants. There is only one reason why…
Islamist Nearly Lands School Board Position
Yesterday Patrick Poole wrote a must-read article about Anisa Abd El Fattah aka Caroline F. Keeble, an active promoter of Hamas’ agenda here in the U.S., came close to becoming a member of the school board in Columbus, Ohio. The reason a Hamas operative almost ended up on the school board of the 15th largest…
FDA "Does Away" with Children’s Medicine
The NY Times reported Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration, which had been pressuring makers of over-the-counter cough medicine for infants and toddlers to withdraw their products from the market, has gotten its way. The voluntary withdrawal, already under way, affects only products labeled for use in infants, not for use in children 2 and…
Deserving Welfare
Michelle Malkin wonders, “Who deserves government-subsidized health care?“ That’s a good question. The short answer, which many of us would agree on, is this: only those who cannot provide for their own basic health care. “Cannot” is one of the key words in that proviso; “basic” is another. The devil is in the details, or…
Islamists Booby-Trap Toys
Yesterday in Kirkuk a question was asked: Rizkar Khourshid, 56, whose wife and three children were injured in the explosion and taken to a hospital. “When will the explosions end? What kind of Islam is Al Qaeda claiming?” Today the answer: A bomb hidden in a cart of toys killed two children and wounded 17…
Islamists Deface Giant Buddha
The Telegraph says: Islamist radicals in Pakistan have attempted to destroy an ancient carving of Buddha by drilling holes in the rock and filling them with dynamite. The 23ft high image was damaged during the attack, which brought back memories of the Taliban’s destruction six years ago of the giant Buddhas at Bamiyan, in neighbouring…