A few headlines to close your week with. I mean, a few headlines with which to close your week: Obama: proof of chemical weapons a ‘game-changer’ (The Guardian) — Can’t for the life of me figure out why American publications are leading with this. I guess it just sounds different from abroad. The American outlets are [...]
Earlier today, I heard Kevin Cullen of The Boston Globe on the radio, giving a riveting, shot-by-shot description of the gun battle between Boston-area cops and the Tsarnaev brothers last Thursday night. It’s a great story, and Cullen tells it well in his column this morning. In fact, I don’t recall ever having read a [...]
The Associated Press reported this yesterday. Somehow I missed it until now, but it’s interesting enough to go ahead and take note of: BOSTON (AP) — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings acknowledged to the FBI his role in the attacks but did so before he was advised of his constitutional right to [...]
A quick look at the headlines: U.S. Says It Suspects Assad Used Chemical Weapons (NYT) — U.S. joins Israel in saying this. Boston suspects ‘targeted New York’ (BBC) — It’s interesting that the BBC is leading with this (so is The Guardian), while you can hardly find it on the NYT main page. S.C. House passes bill [...]
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive I thought this question, posed on Slatest, was intriguing: As the faux-conservative Colbert Report host, Stephen Colbert has lampooned campaign finance laws and the U.S. electoral system by starting his own super PAC and announcing bids for the presidency and “the president of the United [...]
You would think that, after standing on a public street pretending to “debate” a life-sized photograph of Nancy Pelosi, Mark Sanford would realize that he had embarrassed himself in three ways: By making Rep. Pelosi his target, he’s doing exactly the same thing that he’s accusing Elizabeth Colbert Busch of doing — failing to confront [...]
While exploring a new (to me) social media site, Tapiture, I ran across this video, which tells some home truths about what may have been the most overhyped film of the past decade. There are other movies that get the “honest” treatment by the same outfit, but none deserved it so much as “Avatar.”
The State today ran this column by Kathleen Parker, which doesn’t come right out and say “Mark Sanford’s gonna lose,” but seems to assume that to be the case throughout. Here’s how the piece ends: Sanford didn’t even have the decency to resign from office but rather finished his term and vanished for a couple [...]
Any astronomers out there? Because I’ve got a question that’s been bugging me. Some time ago, I picked up one of those cards at Starbucks that provides a code that lets you download a free iPhone app. This one was called “Star Walk,” and it was very cool. Basically, you hold your phone up to [...]
Just a quick look at the current headlines: Syria Used Chemical Arms Repeatedly, Israel Asserts (NYT) — Of the usual sources I peruse, only the NYT and the Guardian are leading with this right now, but I think they’re right. Officials: U.S. wars motivated Boston suspects (WashPost) — Lots of angles out there on this, but I [...]
Got this release a few minutes ago from Vincent Sheheen: Sheheen on Ethics Reform: GOP efforts & Governor’s back-seat approach the “good-old-boys-and-girls network at its worst” Columbia – Today, state Representatives Beth Bernstein and James Smith stood up to call for real ethics reform and urged Governor Haley for leadership instead of hiding behind yet [...]
The Washington Post‘s “Post Partisan” blog brought my attention to something I had missed — that our own Laurin Manning was back in the SC blogosphere. Jonathan Capehart of the Post quoted what Laurin had to say about Mark Sanford’s ridiculously narcissistic full-page advert in the Charleston paper over the weekend. As Laurin wrote: On [...]
There’s something very ironic in the charge filed against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev today: Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged today with using a weapon of mass destruction in the April 15 attacks that ripped through a crowd at the finish line of the world-renowned race, killing three people and injuring scores of others Tsarnaev’s initial [...]
wistv.com – Columbia, South Carolina | Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott announced today he was quitting for good, effective May 1. But the statement he read doesn’t clear up what happened, at least in this account at thestate.com: City Manager Teresa Wilson said during the news conference that Scott has been diagnosed with PTSD. Scott, [...]
Some fascinating number have just been put out by Public Policy Polling: PPP’s newest poll on the special election in South Carolina finds Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch expanding her lead to 9 points over Mark Sanford at 50/41. Green Party candidate Eugene Platt polls at 3%. Colbert Busch’s lead is on the rise for several [...]
There’s been a lot of overwrought reaction to Lindsey Graham’s suggestion that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be tried by military tribunal rather than under our criminal system. For instance, there was this writer over at Forbes who moaned, “Why is it that those who spend an inordinate amount of time professing their dedication and fealty to [...]
The national Republican Party has washed its hands of Mark Sanford — but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is firmly in the corner of his opponent, Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, As evidenced by the ad above. Meanwhile, some Republicans seem to be worrying about their association with Sanford even if he wins. The concern seems to be [...]
This just gets wilder: BOSTON — The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings led police on a wild and deadly chase through the suburbs here early Friday morning that ended in the death of one of the suspects as well as a campus police officer; the other suspect remained at large while hundreds of [...]
Bryan Caskey posted this over on his blog. I don’t know where he got it — the URL makes me think some social media site such as Facebook, But wherever, I liked it, too. So I’m sharing it.