It Was Today… 09/11/01

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive,

It looks like Nedra Pickler is another reporterette sho spent too much time in gender study classes and no time studying military tactics.  If Pickler had the military sense of a PFC she would realize that she is reporting that

• Does anyone on the planet doubt that Obama book was written to advance the cause of his presidential candidacy? Why, then, is it so hard to understand that Oprah Winfrey having him on to promote that book, is a direct

So, when I saw Pete Abel’s tirade against Sarah Palin, I took it in stride. After all, The Moderate Voice isn’t, I reasoned. I’ve pointed out the serious lack of moderation there (To say nothing of the rolling waves of

RALEIGH (WTVD) — In an election for President of the United States in North Carolina Tuesday, Republican John McCain suddenly and breathtakingly surges to a 20-point win over Democrat Barack Obama, 58% to 38%, according to this latest exclusive SurveyUSA

Via Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit:

“Surely a man smart enough to be elected president should have foreseen how these remarks would be taken. Don’t Harvard law grads know the impact of words

Well I can not see why BO is

Well, look, we have one of two choices with this story.

1. No. Obama didn’t mean to connect the dots, and simply fell into using a phrase. If this is the case,  his extreme insensitivity disqualifies him from any presidential duties,

I pointed out that the guy driving the so-called ‘Troopergate” thing forward in Alaska was more than a little dirty;

I questioned the timing of the way things ramped up on the Palin thing in Alaska, a couple days

An outright suburb article in the Asia Times last week… Apparently Limbaugh read it on his show yesterday… and a reader sent it along to me here.

Just a taste:

Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why

• Martin makes the point I’ve been making about Fannie and Freddie… that this does not constitute a government takeover or government growth at all, for that matter, since they were governmental creations in the first place.  And Billy responds. 

By way of The Conservative Grapevine comes an article in the Examiner, wherein we find:

 University of Minnesota staff were key coordinators of the recent violent protests at the Republican National Convention (RNC). The university employees are also

Jake Tapper, ABC News, quotes Bill Ayers:

were needlessly killed. Even though I worked hard to end the war, I feel to this day that I didn’t do enough because the war dragged on for years after the majority

Warren Meyer points out that the website of the proposed California high-speed rail bond says that the thing will generate 450,000 permanent jobs, which is an amazing thing when you consider that all of U.S. rail employs about half that

Uh-oh…

He almost wrecked Barack Obama‘s presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker’s marriage – and her job, The Post has learned.

Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual

Well, look, it doesn’t excerpt well, so I’m just going to have you go and read.

Bruce at Q&O has his own take on that one.

And check here at Q&O, as well, for Number 74.

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