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Date: November 30th, 2007

Man with bomb strapped on takes over Clinton campaign office in NH Updated

30 November, 2007 (16:27) | Crime & Punishment, Human Interest, Politics | By: ricjames

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 [...]

Is that document public or private

30 November, 2007 (12:46) | Law, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

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 [...]

We're moving up in grade levels, here

30 November, 2007 (09:48) | Blogging | By: ricjames

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 [...]

The Two Worlds of Gingrich

30 November, 2007 (09:43) | Uncategorized | By: ricjames

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 [...]

Yet another surge you're likely not reading about

30 November, 2007 (06:22) | GWOT, The Media | By: ricjames

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 [...]