Army Recruiting Upsets Teen’s Mom Darla Swift, Cherokee County, said a stranger called her house a few weeks ago asking for her 16-year-old daughter. “The first thing was, is Robin there? Didn’t even include her last name, it was very casual, and I really thought it was one of the boys who call occasionally,†Swift said. “So I’m like, who’s calling? And the person said it’s the U.S. Army, and I’m thinking this is a joke, alright, who’s calling? He…
So what does Sandra Day O’Connor say (in case you’ve forgotten, she is a Republican but not a neo-con) now that she has announced her retirement from the Supreme Court? Speaking in Spokane WA to a group of lawyers and judges in late July, retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she is worried about the future of the federal judiciary because of a “climate of antipathy” in Congress. “I’m pretty old, you know. In all the years…
In a roundtable interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers President Bush said yesterday that he believes schools should discuss “intelligent design” alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life. No problem. Just don’t ask science teachers to teach it. Teach it in religion classes, not alongside evolutionary theories in biology class. The principle of selection: what lives to reproduce passes on its genes. There are discussions about different theories within the science of evolution – debate about…
Clark Howard posted sites which will look for money that is rightfully yours. Did you know that there are tens of billions of unclaimed dollars floating around the United States? This money ends up in the hands of your state when it is not claimed by its rightful owner or beneficiary. But thanks to the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reporting law, also known as SOX, more people have been able to claim what is rightfully theirs. The law basically requires companies to…
So now Bush has sidestepped the Senate by appointing Bolton to the UN as a recess appointment. He stonewalled under “executive priviledge” and did not provide the documents asked for by the Senate. Problems and questions about Bolton that might have been resolved one way or another by providing such documents are: whether he was seeking secret information on rivals, whether he misled lawmakers about his role in compiling papers regarding Syria, whether he bullied/harassed officials and analysts who challenged…
The Supreme Court Nomination Blog Check this one out for very detailed coverage on the John Roberts nomination – a great resource.