Just saw over on Fox News this story, currently ongoing. A man claiming to have a bomb strapped to his chest has taken over the Rochester, NH campaign office of Hillary Clinton. Situation is progressing as I write this and is being covered live on Fox. Update: The situation was resolved and it was discovered [...]
The folks at the State Sunshine and Open Records blog have certainly taken notice of the situation here in Loudoun and, I’m proud to say, my recent post on the court ruling that a public official is basically to be denied any privacy in communications. A new post over there asks the extremely pertinent question [...]
Don’t look now but it looks like we’re getting into higher-grade topics at the HoodaThunk? blog. If you’ll recall, the last time I did a readability test on the blog I came in at high school level, which was fine by me. I just ran the same test and look what happened. I guess we’re [...]
I’m wasn’t a huge fan of Newt Gingrich when he was in office and he still says and does things that crank me the wrong way. He does, however, have a huge point in a talk he was giving where he spoke of the Two Worlds concept he’s got: the World That Works and the [...]
Via Power Line, here’s Stanley Kurtz over at the NRO’s The Corner: If you thought the mainstream media didn’t want to report on the Iraq surge, try finding stories on the Pakistani army’s offensive in Swat. I know it’s an important issue, because the New York Times ran an op-ed yesterday claiming that Pakistan never [...]
A photo montage by a couple of “artists” showing President Bush and 5 other members of his administration, current and former, is being displayed by the New York Public Library. Each member is shown holding a DC police placard of the type used for arrest booking photos. Not only is the library management guilty of [...]
Michelle Malkin has the scoop on last night’s CNN/YouTube debate wherein CNN chose questions sent in via YouTube. The questions were all supposed to be from just your average joes and chosen specifically to bring critical issues to light, allegedly without becoming a partisan Democrat gotcha-fest. Well, the debate did bring out the issues but [...]
You may recall about 6 months ago that an Atlanta lawyer, diagnosed with drug-resistant TB, ignored orders from the CDC to seek medical attention in Italy and not return to the US until treated and flew back, exposing a couple of hundred fellow passengers to the disease. Well, several months of testing are proving promising. [...]
Back in 2006 a half-mile wide asteroid made a close pass to us and it generated real fears of an impact scenario as far back as 2004. When I reported on the near-miss in June of last year, I took note of another large piece of gravel that’s likely going to come a lot closer. [...]
Niagra Falls City Court Judge Robert Restaino has been removed from the bench after an incident where he jailed all 46 people in his courtroom after someone’s cell phone rang. Niagara Falls City Court Judge Robert Restaino “snapped” and “engaged in what can only be described as two hours of inexplicable madness” during the March [...]
