Ohio Close to Passing Homosexual Marriage Ban

AP is reporting::

“COLUMBUS, Ohio – After seven years of debate, lawmakers moved closer Wednesday to passing a law that would bar Ohio from recognizing same-sex marriages and keep some state employees from getting benefits for their domestic partners”

Silandara’s Blog is a nice respite from the political world, at least for today. Some wonderful writing. Her grandmother has died, and she’s going through a hard time just now. Hasn’t posted in a few days. But what she has

The Washington Times and damned few other places, are reporting that:

” Shi’ite Muslims marched through Baghdad for a second day yesterday, this time demanding the execution of Saddam Hussein whose Sunni-dominated regime repressed the Shi’ite majority for decades. “

Democrats for Bush/Cheney 2004

A great story this, and a worthwhile site.

ZDNet is reporting:

“Microsoft says it may have been overaggressive in threatening Web entrepreneur Mike Rowe over the name of his Web site, Mikerowesoft.com”

Hmmm. The Giant Blinks…..

Me at Drezner’s place this morning. Italics are the person I’m responding to, and below it, my response. I’d like to say I’m shocked by his suggestions, here, but I’m really not, as you’ll see.

Don’t be surprised by

Am I the only one who roiled a bit at Pelosi?

“But event the most powerful nation in the history of the world must bring other nations to our side to meet common dangers.”

Perhaps she wasn’t listening to the

Boortz apparently shares my thoights as regards the reaction of the Democrats last night during the SOTU address:

“My most vivid memory of last night’s speech was the Democrats clear hatred of the mention of anything relating to tax cuts. 

Impressive, these Democrats.
They lose ther ability to stand when tax cuts are mentioned.
Yet they make all kinds of noise when the end of the Patriot act is mentioned.

On both points, it’s clear, they support the failure of

The George W. Bush Conspiracy Generator

This Java app spits out conspiracy theories that are more plauseable than what one finds in one of Dean’s Speeches.

Examples:

George W. Bush caused the Cubs to lose to the Marlins in Game

Mort Kondrake has an interesting take on the election:

“Here’s a harrowing pair of facts for Democrats: In 60 years, no Democrat has ever won the presidency without carrying the youth vote. And right now President Bush’s approval rating among

New York Gov. George Pataki (R) is reportedly taking in campaign money at a fast pace, even that fund raising is being outdone by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (D). Spitzer is pretty much a lock for the nomination for Govenor

Ananova is reporting today that:

“J.R.R. Tolkien’s great-grandson has backed Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson to make a film version of The Hobbit. Jackson has already said he’d be interested if a deal on the film rights can

Rich Lowry: Ted Kennedy’s Iraq lunacy

Another worthy read.

In FrontPage magazine.com this monring Lowell Ponte suggests the big losers were the big unions.

“The blue collar unions had bet their chips on longtime AFL-CIO partisan Rep. Richard Gephardt of neighboring Missouri. The mostly-government-employee white collar unions AFSCME (the