Archive for September, 2006

Iraq Is Making America Less Safe

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

President Bush ordered a portion of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) discussing our war in Iraq and the war on terror to be publicly released yesterday. The NIE's main conclusion is that while the administration's efforts to capture and kill al Qaeda's leaders have weakened and dispersed that organization, the ...

Joe Theismann Gives Us A Thinker

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Last night, the New Orleans Saints played the Atlanta Falcons in the first game at the New Orleans Superdome in nearly two years. It was a momentous occasion, for the obvious reasons given the damage Hurricane Katrina wreaked in that area over a year ago. ESPN, now the home of Monday ...

Bill Clinton Sets Fox News Straight

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

You may have already seen this, but if not, I strongly encourage you to spend sixteen minutes of your day watching this interview with President Bill Clinton that aired on the Fox News Channel on Sunday: I particularly recommend watching around the 11:48 mark, when President Clinton is talking about ...

An Accusation Does Not A Terrorist Make

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

I wrote the other day about an innocent Canadian man the United States sent off to Syria for a year to get tortured, all because the government thought this man was a terrorist. Well, it turned out the man was not a terrorist and had done nothing illegal. Our government ...

When Freedom Dies

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Here is a story showing what America looks like with George W. Bush as president. A Canadian computer consultant, Maher Arar, was falsely accused of being an accomplice of Al Qaeda. Canadian officials, feeling pressure to find presumed terrorists after September 11, tipped off U.S. officials: Arar, now 36, was detained ...

Notre Dame Gets Routed

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

I guess all those whispers about Notre Dame being overrated really were true. Notre Dame got destroyed by Michigan at home today by a score of 47-21. And it was worse than the score indicates. This was that classic combination of Michigan's offensive and defensive units whipping Notre Dame's defensive and ...