Parents insist “Wait! It’s not dead yet!” Funny thing: Jeb! cut short his Maine vacation to return to Florida in order to deal with Hurricane Dennis. He should have been out of town this weekend, but once he came back and saw the news dominated by hurricanes and terrorist bombs, he decided to quietly release [...]
Archive for July, 2005
Domestic terrorists ignored
July 7, 2005
A good piece in the PB Post on the state of abortions in Florida. The article touches briefly on the fact that big cities are becoming the only places where obtaining an abortion is possible. This puts an incredible burden on rural dwellers who must take time off of work, possibly putting their job at [...]
Bring it on?
July 7, 2005
London rocked by explosions Wow. That whole strategy of swaggering “bring it on,” and “we’ll draw them to Iraq and fight them there” is really working out, aint it? Free societies will always be susceptible to attacks like this, but attacks grow much less likely if an effort is made to reach out to the [...]
Terrorists force closure of last Palm Beach clinic
July 6, 2005
Federal agents looking into abortion clinic fire Federal investigators are looking into a fire that damaged an abortion clinic where protesters have staged weekly demonstrations for more than a decade. The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined local authorities in investigating the Monday night blaze at the Presidential Women’s Clinic. [...]
Hatred evolves
July 5, 2005
Hernando County, just a short drive north of the Tampa Bay area, enjoys the unique claim to fame of having been the lynchingest county in the South, and some residents are still damn proud of that distinction. In what is now the Withlacoochee State Forest, “they put (Lang) on a horse and tied a noose [...]
Happy 4th
July 4, 2005
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That [...]
Happy 4th
July 4, 2005
The case of Eugene Debs soon came before the Supreme Court. In June of 1918, Debs visited three Socialists who were in prison for opposing the draft, and then spoke, across the street from the jail, to an audience he kept enthralled for two hours. He was one of the country’s great orators, and was [...]
Happy 4th
July 4, 2005
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would to-day pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not [...]
In Spain, rally is “infinitely gay”
July 3, 2005
Alright: more than 100,000 folks get together to celebrate Spain’s new gay marriage law, a gathering described by one participant as “infinitely gay.” They parade. They party in the streets. The cavort and carry on. And everyone gets lucky in the end, as the huge, throbbing mass of flesh is thrust into the… oh, just [...]
State coddles criminal phosphate producer
July 2, 2005
Mosaic, the new Cargill phosphate entity has been lightly slapped on the wrist for a huge toxic spill that was mostly lost amid the roar of many hurricanes last year. The owner of a Riverview phosphate factory has been fined $270,000 over a dike that broke during Hurricane Frances, dumping millions of gallons of acidic [...]