Is the “Fairness Doctrine” Really Dead?

Boortz this morning, as regards the Pence amendment, which effectively block the ‘fairness doctrine”… for a while…

First: Did you know that this amendment only applies to 2008 appropriations? It does absolutely nothing after 2008. So no wonder it passed!

Sandy Berger steals national secrets and gets a $50,000 fine and no felony conviction. Scooter Libby misremembers a conversation and gets a felony conviction and $250,000 fine.

Ace has the winning idea:

Suggestion: Bush should have reduced the fine to

Just a quick update. My wife and new baby girl are doing just great. If anything, my wife is going stir crazy from the doctor’s orders not to do too much. Neither of us really likes to sit around the

Little Green Footballs has started picking up on a trend and I wonder if Charles is even aware of the implications of what he’s written :

The total number of doctors involved in the UK terror attacks is now FIVE

• It occurs to me, that there are a couple of reasons for raising the CAFE standards… you know about those… those are the fleet MPG ratings each auto maker is supposed to have in these United States… obviously, a small

WASHINGTON —AP- President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around…  per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting

perhaps it’s a little late to be looking at this, now, but Amity Shales in today’s Wall Street Journal as, as the byline says “reconsidering our reverence for FDR.”

It’s about bloody time.

The real question about the 1930s is

Has anyone else noticed that since the predicted “scorching hot summer” has turned into a very damp squib, “global warming” has suddenly become “climate change”?

Terry Wogan, via Tim Blair.
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Brits get pratriotic, Enjoy.

Bash a couple stories together and you come up with interesting results.
Captain Ed, this morning says

What are the causes of terrorism? Many would have them as poverty, a lack of education, and little exposure to Western values.

Michelle Malkin passes a message along, which I will do here as well.

I  hope you can take a few moments out of your day to add Matthew Rager to your thoughts and prayers. Reader Eric e-mails

Our son

I saw this post from Michael Yon, earlier today, and had no words for it. It is, the reality of what we’re up against.  Cold, hard, brutal.  It’s a reality that many in our country don’t want to face.

The Sunday Telegraph is heralding what it says could be the death of Rap music.

Confronted with haemorrhaging sales, the most assertive popular music movement since the Sex Pistols has lost its swagger and is suffering a crisis of confidence.

A slow day out there. Been looking around at some of the things on my “todo” list. ONe of hem was the comment some weeks ago about Fred Thompson being a legislative lightweight.

First of all, even if he was