Bill's Nibbles // Open Post -- 2007.04.02
Contributed by Bill Faith
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Some Bill's Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I'm sending you to the original post, some things too short to excerpt and too good to not mention. I occasionally move things from Bill's Nibbles to longer posts as the day goes on:
- 2007.04.02 Iran/Brit Hostage Crisis Roundup
- "What Should Britain, the U.S., and Europe Do About Iran?"
- "Brits Ready To Stick It To The Iraqis
To Get Their Hostages Back"
- U.K. Denounces Video of Seized Sailors
- "Iran, The New South Africa"
- When Britain fought back
- Iran: All sailors have confessed — but we won’t show any more confessions
- Iran: No Need to Try Captured British Personnel
- ABC News: Iran has secretly tripled its enrichment capacity
- Iran's Confident Act Of Piracy
- 2007.04.02 Iraq/Surrendercrat Roundup
- Iraq: A pessimistic assessment
- Red on red mania: Sunni insurgents kill two Al Qaeda capos
- A heckler, not a reporter
- "Michael Ware Needs To Come Home"
- Video: CNN reporter denies heckling McCain;
Update: Press conference video appears to support Ware
- Video: Rangel admits Dems abused war funding bill
- Sharia in the classroom
- Political correctness and teaching history
- Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
- Campaign Grind
- Hillary Smashes Fund-Raising Record (Caption Contest!)
- Romney Raises $23 Million in 2008 White House Bid ...
- McCain’s first quarter fundraising tanks
- What Does It Mean?
- --April 2, 2003
"Critter" Crittenden: I came across his name unexpectedly, while scanning a list of the war dead online during a slow afternoon at work. It was nearly a year after the fact. Whatever my wife might say about my obsessing on Iraq, this reading of names wasn’t something I did on a regular basis. It happened occasionally when one link led to another, and I found myself scrolling down, looking for the names I know. This was a particularly good list. It was organized by date. It included each dead soldier’s hometown, age and the circumstances of his or her death, when available. That was how I discovered who U.S. Navy Lt. Nathan D. White was, and realized I had witnessed his death.
- Spot the error
Michelle Malkin: San Mateo County Times reporter Christine Morente profiles women with guns. Obviously, Morente herself has never fired a revolver (and one wonders whether she was actually at the striking scene she describes in the opening of her article): ...
- The Feinstein Chronicles: Old media/new media catfight
Michelle Malkin: Still waiting for Dianne Feinstein's hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, to cover her reported resignation from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. Basic questions to be asked and answered: Did she or didn't she? And if she did, was it because of the reported ethical cloud over her head or not? ...
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