Posted on April 30, 2007 by thestateofblog
“I am always a little amazed at the response that people get when they hear from Barack,” she told the crowd at the Beverly Hilton, as her husband stood by looking like a puppy being scolded, reported Hud Morgan of Men’s Vogue. “A great man, a wonderful man. But still a man. …
“And [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2007 by thestateofblog
By Bill Barnwell, hat tip: Dina
“Whatever happened to the virtue of masculinity? It is long gone if today’s popular culture is any indicator. There was once an era where a man was supposed to be a man. He looked like a man, he talked like a man and he acted like it. Not so [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2007 by thestateofblog
“Ex-CIA Director George Tenet says the way the Bush administration has used his now famous “slam dunk” comment Ð which he admits saying in reference to making the public case for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Ð is both disingenuous and dishonorable. It also ruined his reputation and his career, he tells Scott [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2007 by thestateofblog
I (rich) was so busy on Friday I forgot to post this. Enjoy the weekend!
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Posted on April 27, 2007 by thestateofblog
A Cary-Grove High School student charged with disorderly conduct for writing a violently descriptive class essay had received an assignment that said: “Write whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing.”
Allen Lee, 18, responded with passages about “shooting everyone” and having “sex with the dead bodies,” according to [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2007 by thestateofblog
“So the top of the NFL draft is about the two quarterbacks, notwithstanding the fact Georgia Tech’s Calvin Johnson is conceded to be the one “can’t miss” player _ perhaps the best at any position in the last five years or so.
“But in the endless analysis that starts in early January and carries on [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2007 by thestateofblog
By David Ignatius“The disconnect that is destroying what’s left of the Bush presidency was clear in an image from the Oval Office this week. President Bush was sitting warily in his chair, pursing his lips as if he had just eaten a bad radish, as a reporter asked about the performance of Attorney General Alberto [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2007 by thestateofblog
“If we do have to take offensive military action against Iran, it would be far better if the rest of the world saw it as a position of last resort, not first resort, because the effect and consequences will be global.”
–Hillary Clinton
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Posted on April 26, 2007 by thestateofblog
Hat tip: Skeptical Brotha
TheStateOf . . . Barack. The man is on fire - and he’ll be in Los Angeles this weekend!
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Posted on April 26, 2007 by thestateofblog
“Whenever an anniversary of the death of a beloved musician comes around, it’s always difficult to believe that they’ve been gone for so long. Last year made a decade since Tupac Shakur left us and last month marked 10 years since the Notorious B.I.G. passed away. Wednesday (April 25) is five years to the day [...]
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