Day March 21, 2005

Schiavo judge leaning against parent’s lawsuit

But the judge told Gibbs that he still wasn’t completely sold on the argument. “I think you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that you have a substantial likelihood” of the parents’ lawsuit succeeding, the judge said. The attorney for Terri…

Protestors seize Kyrgyzstan’s second city

Opposition protesters, using clubs and petrol bombs, seized Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, Monday as increasingly violent unrest swept the south of the country aimed at forcing President Askar Akayev to step down. An obviously stolen election sparked the protests, which…

WaPo calls bloggers the secret police

From Scripting News Tina Brown: “Bloggers are the new Stasi,” or the East German secret police during the Cold War. They actually ran this piece in the Washington Post. The reporters have had a free ride all our lives, the…

Global warming enters the national consciousness

A year ago, global warming was dismissed as leftie fringe stuff. Now, mainstream media in the US is acknowledging global warming is real and happening. This is a huge change! Of course, all other industrialized nations, Europe, Asia, etc. accepted…