Beer baron Peter Coors’ driver’s license has been revoked by a hearing officer who ruled the executive had been driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said. From Yahoo! News Yep, that Coors caught DUI.
Category: politics
highway robbery
Over the years since he ascended to the pinnacle of the House leadership, however, Hastert’s fortunes have improved substantially. Last year, he and two business partners sold a parcel of land west of Chicago for a very tidy profit – only months after he’d “earmarked” hundreds of millions in federal funding for a new highway… Continue reading highway robbery
Tensions High in Somalia as Thousands Protest
Tensions were high in Somalia’s capital today as the Islamic militants who seized control of Mogadishu the day before vowed to set up a religious state, but thousands of people allied with the one of the country’s largest clans held a rally to protest that move. From New York Times Bad news in the Global… Continue reading Tensions High in Somalia as Thousands Protest
smokescreen
Maybe I’m a cynic but I can’t help but think that the gay marriage debate is a smokescreen to keep people from noticing repeal of the estate tax. Just a thought. Why else would they be working this hard on an amendment that won’t pass? They won’t get 67 votes in the Senate. They won’t… Continue reading smokescreen
why does CNN grant an open forum to this particular whack-job and not others
When Coulter is invited to spout her putrescence on Larry King Live, the legitimacy granted to her is CNN’s fault, not Coulter’s. After all, there’s no shortage of desperate attention seekers willing to say and do outlandish things to get noticed. The question is, why does CNN grant an open forum to this particular whack-job… Continue reading why does CNN grant an open forum to this particular whack-job and not others
The Purpose Driven Life Takers
Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You… Continue reading The Purpose Driven Life Takers
An Inconvenient Truth
I saw An Inconvenient Truth over the last weekend. I liked it. Mr. Gore does a great job at providing a layman’s review on Global Warming. With that said, he does a bunch of things that drove me absolutely nuts. First off, why were so many of those charts not to scale? I realize that’s… Continue reading An Inconvenient Truth
Bipartisan Victory in the House
The broad, nonpartisan movement for Internet freedom notched a major victory today, when a bipartisan majority of the House Judiciary Committee passed the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006″ — a bill that offers meaningful protections for Network Neutrality, “the First Amendment of the Internet.” 20 members of the Commitee (6 Republicans and 14… Continue reading Bipartisan Victory in the House
DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert
A good sign that Tom DeLay doesn’t have the facts on his side: the top source for his latest defense against his critics is Stephen Colbert. From Think Progress Tom, wake up and smell the Truthiness.Too bad Colbert is on break right now as he would have a blast with this. The sheer meta-ness of… Continue reading DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert
Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist
Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization that has received over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to watching a movie by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to learn about Nazi Germany. From Think Progress The… Continue reading Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist