Wizbang: February 2007 Archives

Wizbang Podcast #56 is up

Posted by Charlie Quidnunc · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (4)

The 56th edition of the Wizbang Podcast is up for your listening pleasure. Here's what I thought you'd like to hear about today: Carl Levin - Neocon from MichiganReconstruction in Iraq - An Ancient Land, but a New CountryNot supporting our injured troops - Gates takes responsibility for Walter Reed... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Count McCain In

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (15)

Fox News reports that John McCain announced that he's running for president on today's taping of the David Letterman Show. When he made his announcement, the crowd went wild. You can watch it tonight at 11:30pm on CBS. Dick Morris writes today at Townhall that McCain's campaign is in the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (6 votes cast)

How can we miss them if they won't go away?

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (10)

One of the hallmarks of Hillary Clinton's campaign for coronation the presidency has been her demands that she not be held accountable for any of the misdeeds of her husband's tenure, while reaping the benefits that might be derived from the good parts. And for some reason, a lot of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (16 votes cast)

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio joins Team Romney

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (16)

I love Sheriff Arpaio, so I find this development very interesting: Boston, MA - Today, Governor Mitt Romney announced that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will serve as Honorary Chair for the Romney for President campaign in Arizona. In addition to his Honorary Chair, Governor Romney named Jason Rose as... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (15 votes cast)

Rewriting the dictionary

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (56)

Smear, according to one dictionary: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" Smear campaign, according to the dictionary: An attempt to ruin a reputation by slander or vilification, as in... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (33 votes cast)

The Clintons' pardon deals coming back to haunt Hillary

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (17)

The Boston Globe has a report today that Hillary's brothers' pardon deals are coming back to haunt her: Six years ago, the launch of Hillary Clinton's career in the US Senate was marred by allegations that her brothers had received payments from people pardoned by President Bill Clinton in the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (25 votes cast)

A shameful musical confession

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (27)

I have to confess something. I like Christina Aguilera. Well, not personally. She turns me off, a little. Hell, one of my first caption contest winners was when I labelled her "The Bride Of Skankenstein." But damn, the woman's got pipes. I have a fondness for her type of voice.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (13 votes cast)

Kerry Grills Swift Boat Contributor, Obama is Unsatisfied

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (87)

I saw this story linked at Lucianne and decided to click on over and read a bit about John Kerry's questioning of a nominee for ambassador about his contribution to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. When I did I saw yet another example of the media reporting conventional wisdom... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (28 votes cast)

President Shrimp

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: February 28, 2007 · Comments (15)

George W. Bush is not a short man. In fact, he's a little above average height -- he's 6'2" tall. (Correction: as a couple of commenters have noted, he's 5'11" -- his father was 6'2".) That' just to give a little perspective behind this photo... There's an old bit of... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.6/5 (8 votes cast)

Carl Levin Sees the Light on Syria

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (9)

Updated - the Nutroots respond Believe it or not, he's now calling for attacks on Syria. That's quite a turn around, one that the nutroots are not going to like. Erick Ericson at Red State has a well deserved siren going for this one. Check out Senator Levin's quote: I... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (17 votes cast)

Dow is undergoing a minor correction

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (40)

Update: My original title said major correction, but it really isn't. Four hundred sixteen points is not much of a correction for a market that's above 12,000 points. It's now down more than 500 points: NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average is down more than 500 points... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (9 votes cast)

Faking it

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (9)

For once, I don't have to wander south of the border for a couple of dumb criminal stories. We have a couple right here in New Hampshire. I don't have much use for "historical re-enactors." Recreating battles and other significant events in history strikes me as a colossal waste of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (4 votes cast)

Time To End The Democrats' Free Ride

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (46)

This column from David Limbaugh sums up what I feel about the current debate over Iraq.For liberals like Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, it is far worse for Vice President Dick Cheney to accuse congressional Democrats of playing into Al Qaeda's hands on Iraq than for Democrats actually to play... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (20 votes cast)

Congresscritters Courageous

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (47)

(Author's note: Crap. Since I finished this piece, it's been OBE -- Overtaken By Events I put too much into it, though, to just let it go to waste, so I'm going to let it stand as a testimonial to "what might have been.") Earlier today, I lambasted Congress for... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (10 votes cast)

Taliban targets VP Cheney in Afghanistan

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (42)

Updated He was unhurt, but according Reuters, 12 people were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside the main US military base in Afghanistan: A Taliban suicide bomber killed up to 12 people at the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday in an attack the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (13 votes cast)

The cowards of the country

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (66)

A little while ago, I ripped Congress for their appallingly craven approach to the "surge" plans in Iraq. They hemmed and hawed and bleated, and finally decided on the "appropriate" course of action: a "non-binding resolution" opposing it. It was mealy-mouthed, half-assed, utterly pointless, and without a single redeeming feature.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (25 votes cast)

Headline Of The Day - Pick Your Poison Edition

Posted by Kevin · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (8)

From WSJ.com: Hillary Clinton Picks Heather Mills as General Counsel From a Wall Street Journal e-mail announcing this WSJ Washington Wire piece. It turns out that Hillary hasn't picked Sir Paul McCarthy's one legged, gold digging, porn star/call girl, Dancing With The Stars contestant, soon to be ex-wife; that was... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (11 votes cast)

"Patton" opposes "surge" in Iraq

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (6)

Appearing on the Don Imus radio/TV show, an impersonator portraying the late General Patton channels the great General's proposed policy for Iraq and the Middle East. Some off-color language, in character for the General. If you can read Amanda Marcotte without blushing, this won't bother you at all: Found via... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Al Gore's Own Inconvenient Truth

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 26, 2007 · Comments (248)

Al Gore's mansion uses more than twice the electricity in one month than the average household does in an entire year. From the Tennessee Center for Policy Research: Last night, Al Gore's global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (69 votes cast)

New Episode of 24 Tonight at 9 p.m. EST

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: February 26, 2007 · Comments (53)

New episodes of Prison Break and "24" begin shortly, at 8 and 9 p.m. EST, respectively. I am a huge Prison Break fan, in spite of the absolute unbelievability of the show. It has gotten really interesting lately and promises to be action packed tonight, as well. On "24," we... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.3/5 (3 votes cast)

Vote For the Hot Conservative Vlog Newsbabe

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: February 26, 2007 · Comments (14)

Mary Katharine may kill me for this post title, but it fits. Vote for your favorite news vlogger here. I highly endorse my friend, Mary Katharine Ham, for her Ham Nation vlog at Townhall. I could tell you that she is one of those on the ballot who is not... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.9/5 (7 votes cast)

Fourteen Years Ago Today

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: February 26, 2007 · Comments (18)

Lawhawk was reminded by a commenter and reminded me (via Michelle Malkin) what anniversary is marked today. Anyone remember? I didn't. Follow the links (see the update) and let me know if you were as shocked as I was to realize it had already been fourteen years. It is not... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (12 votes cast)

Lieberman Begs Colleagues to Give Surge A Chance

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: February 26, 2007 · Comments (24)

Joe Lieberman in the Wall Street Journal:We of course will not know whether this new strategy in Iraq will succeed for some time. Even under the most optimistic of scenarios, there will be more attacks and casualties in the months ahead, especially as our fanatical enemies react and attempt to... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (18 votes cast)

Muqtada al-Sadr Critical of Surge

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 26, 2007 · Comments (6)

And he expressed his criticism from "an unknown location": Az-Zaman reports that Muqtada al-Sadr made a statement from "an unknown location," his first since speculations started regarding his whereabouts. Muqtada's letter was read by a representative to thousands of Sadrist supporters in Baghdad. From his hideout (which some still think... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (13 votes cast)

Scooter Libby Trial Down to Eleven Jurors

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: February 26, 2007 · Comments (11)

According to reporting from Aldon Hynes at the Media Bloggers Association trial coverage feed, one juror in the Libby trial has now been dismissed due to something she saw in the media about the case over the weekend. The defense agreed to let the remaining eleven jurors continue to deliberate,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (6 votes cast)