Dead Cant Rant

This just in from the Media Research Center:

While ABC and The Washington Post devoted their full attention to their loaded poll finding that 66 percent of Americans didn’t want a change in Senate filibuster rules (even though the poll question avoided the word “filibuster”), they downplayed numbers from the same survey that 81 percent of [...]

I completely missed this one: yesterday was the anniversary of the military disaster at Desert One.

Tragedy followed frustration. As the No. 3 chopper lifted off to reposition for refueling for its return to the Nimitz, its dust cloud obscured the pilot’s view, inducing vertigo. The disoriented flyer allowed his helo to drift toward one of [...]

Major Mike has a great piece up detailing his experiences dropping ordinance in training with Delta Force operators on the ground:

We were dropping on perhaps the most pristine range in America. Beautiful Huey shells on the ramp. Vehicles everywhere, fixed wing a/c…even a train coming out of a tunnel. This would be fun.
We wrecked one [...]

From a totally unrelated article by Mark comes something we never knew before now: the truth about Breastgate:

The war aside, this AG has been swimming in bad raps. Maybe the baddest of them all has been Breastgate. Surely you are familiar with the statues that live in the Great Hall of the Justice Department: the [...]

In today’s Express-News, guest-columnist Sally Tarasoff bemoans Texas State Rep. Fred Corte’s House Bill 16, which would allow pharmacists to refuse to provide emergency contraceptives if they feel morally opposed to the act.
Her response, “Bill is a slap at women, health care”, makes the typical “progressive” argument that, by allowing individuals freedom to make moral [...]

Bill Benefiel was executed by lethal injection today at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, 18 years after his crime:

The 48-year-old man was sentenced to death for the February 1987 murder and rape of 18-year-old Delores Wells in Terre Haute. Prosecutors say Benefiel held her captive in a vacant house for 12 days, sexually abusing [...]

Another item found by Reneé this morning: Turkey is calling the Polish government “irresponsible” because it acknowledged the mass murder of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire (later known as Turkey) that began in 1915 and lasted by many accounts as late as 1923.
Curious about the relatively unknown Armenian massacre? So were we. Northpark University has [...]

Mark at SAEN Watch excoriates Garry Trudeau for his disgusting piece today:

No matter what your position on the Schiavo situation, all decent people agree that her disability and death was a tragedy…except for Garry Trudeau.
In his Doonesbury strip today, Trudeau continues a juvenile “Tom DeLay Political Death Watch”. In one of the panels, a news [...]

This just in from Reneé… It seems that one of San Antonio’s mayoral hopefuls has actually found a way to literally be in two places at once:

The station reports that San Antonio City Councilman Julian Castro has had his identical twin brother — State Representative Joaquin Castro — stand in for him at public events.
That [...]

Architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of that monstrous eyesore that will replace the World Trade Center (and who — surprise! — prefers to wear all black) is also the author of the following moving piece of poetry:

America turns its mass-produced urine antennae toward Caesar’s arrogant ganglion, while history is advocated by utopians as a substitute for [...]