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When bigots attack, we fight back!

“WHEN BIGOTS ATTACK, WE FIGHT BACK!!” There was a second anti-homophobia march yesterday, which happened without the permission of the council and (surprise!) went unmentioned in the Liverpool Echo report. Many of the 1500 people who took part in ...

From STEVE, UK Indymedia Newswire,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Liverpool F.C.,  Steve Radford,  General James L Jones

Monday's Mini-Report

* Afghanistan: "Bombings and shootings killed 12 people across Afghanistan, including four American troops and three children, as President Barack Obama convened his war council again Monday to fine-tune a strategy to respond to the intransigent ...

From STEVE BENEN, Political Animal,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dick Cheney,  Barack Obama,  Kathleen Sebelius,  George W. Bush,  Bill Moyers

At least they know their audience

As the columnist sees it, Palin and Huckabee "owed their appeal more to personality than to substance," and would have been wise to "take their newfound eminence seriously" and start hitting the books. Instead, they chose to "cash in on their celebrity, ...

From STEVE BENEN, Political Animal,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party

Can Obama write?

The opponents of politicians naturally assume that everything they speak or publish was written for them by professional writers. Until I visited the Reagan Library for the first time in the late 1990s, for instance, I had simply gone along with the ...

From STEVE SAILER, Steve Sailer-Articles & Blog on Human Biodiversity, Genetics,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Ronald Reagan,  Harvard University,  Robert Bork,  David Souter

Mario Karts, Blobs, and Bit.Trips Round Out Nintendo Downloads

Thursday of this week is turkey day in the U.S., and Nintendo's accompanying downloads definitely bring plenty of goods for us to digest with a total of 13 new downloads. For WiiWare, we have Bit.Trip Void for 600 Wii Points ($6), the latest in Aksys ...

From STEVE WATTS, 1up.com,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nintendo

Football Tackling Drills – Backfield Tackling

If you need some football tackling drills, try this one. It is a football drill for ends, outside LB and CB. We refer to this drill for backfield tackling. Ends fire off the line drives through TE and tackles dummy waist high and wraps with both arms.( ...

From STEVE, Football Drills & Plays,  23 Nov 2009

Fox News ponders 'quality control'

FOX NEWS PONDERS 'QUALITY CONTROL'.... Over the last few weeks, Fox News has suffered some embarrassments that left even the partisan network feeling ill at ease. An incident occurred when Fox News combined footage of events to make it seem as if more ...

From STEVE BENEN, Political Animal,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: FOX Broadcasting Company,  Mark Foley,  U.S. Republican Party

The RNC's purity test

THE RNC'S PURITY TEST.... After the party's unpleasant experience in New York's 23rd, Republicans hope to exclude moderates from their upcoming slate of candidates. But the commitment leads to an awkward question: who gets to decide which candidates ...

From STEVE BENEN, Political Animal,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Republican National Committee,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party

Porsche creates lighter GT3, GT3 RS and Boxster Spyder

When it comes down to an analysis of cost per kg in the context of weight savings, anyone that owns a 911 GT3 RS will already be familiar with the kind of post-purchase rationalisation involved. Carbon fibre, lightweight alloys and plexiglass windows ...

From STEVE, Drivers Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Porsche

If senators are worried about the polls...

A new national survey from Public Policy Polling (D) finds that health care has put the Democrats in a tricky situation -- passing a bill with a public option doesn't offer a clear political benefit, but not passing anything would cause an even greater ...

From STEVE BENEN, Political Animal,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Blanche Lincoln,  Joe Lieberman

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