Thursday, July 20, 2006
Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars (04:28 PM) - That will be the price to secure a square of space on the front page of the nation’s second most read newspaper and the first most influential, the Wall Street Journal. The Journal will begin selling a single front-page, below-the-fold…
Iranian Officials Sat Orchestra Prime at Korea’s Missile Launch (04:19 PM) - Christopher Hill, point man on North Korea, has disclosed that Kim Jong-il welcomed a coterie of Iranians to its intentionally provocative missile test on July 4. TigerHawk comments: “Obviously Tehran is so disrespectful of its own cover story — that…
“Marines help Americans flee Israel’s war in Lebanon” (10:23 AM) - A Reuters headline….
A Few Good Words on the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict (10:08 AM) - Nathaniel Ward’s excellent e-mail newsletter from the Heritage Foundation, located at MyHeritage.org, justly brought attention to this quote from Dan Gillerman, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations: “We have the US behind us because we are right, because we…
Just In Case (09:46 AM) - This morning at 3:14, we launched a test ICBM. The Minuteman III flew 4,200 miles and hit its target. I am inspired. Maybe we’ll take a ride to Wal-Mart this afternoon and launch an Estes at dusk….
Senator Voinovich: Vote for Bolton (09:35 AM) - Saying that John Bolton cannot become the issue (an important point) and praising his ability to drive hard the generally listless international body, Republican Senator George Voinovich writes in the Washington Post this morning that he ought to be swiftly…
Hugo Chavez Silencing Critics in Media (08:51 AM) - Well, these sorts of people usually do have to silence their critics. Otherwise their critics start making sense….
Calm Down on Stem Cell Funding (08:05 AM) - You know, this is still America. The people in Washington? They just can’t do all that much to us. I am a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. President Bush, in his heart of hearts, may not be. And we…
“Dividing the Arab World” (07:16 AM) - On National Public Radio, the host just described the battle between the Islamist nationalist terrorist group Hezbollah and the nation of Israel as doing just that: Dividing the Arab word. The host intoned, silently, that this was just one of…