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The NARAL ad slandering John Roberts was taken off their website sometime yesterday, and NARAL has announced that it is withdrawing the ad altogether as soon as the substitute ad is produced and made available. The reason is that the...

More on the New York Times' insistence on digging through John Roberts' ultra-personal adoption of two children, via Drudge. The National Council For Adoption puts it on the NYT's ass hard: ?NCFA denounces, in the strongest possible terms, the shocking...

Slate's Explainer column addresses Eric Lindholm's question regarding who is in charge of waking up the President when there's big news....

Westerners considering separation

More than one-third of western Canadians surveyed this summer thought it was time to consider separation from Canada, a poll suggests. In the survey, 35.6 per cent of respondents from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia agreed with the statement: Western Canadians should begin to explore the idea of forming their own country.

Interesting. According to historians, about 1/3 of the colonists in what became the United States were in favor of that independence movement, so maybe there's enough sentiment up there for something to happen, eh?

otI have noticed how the South Dakota Democrats have taken offense to the conservative?s position on issues like abortion. Their approach is that politics should be void of moral values. That is probably why they lie so much. Lying is...

Forget about Allen, Giuliani or McCain, I want Tony Blair in 2008: U.K. Institutes New Deportation Measures. Foreigners who preach hatred, sponsor violence or belong to extremist groups could be deported from Britain under strict new measures that Prime Minister...

From today's Argus Leader: Sen. Tim Johnson is now telling people privately that he will seek re-election in 2008. Career moves for a lot of ambitious young South Dakota Republicans and Democrats hinge on what Johnson decides. If he runs,...

MSM Icon Succumbs to Cancer at Age 67

The Chief always had reservations about any of the "Big-3" network news coverage, but Jennings was the least objectionable of the lot, much to be preferred over Dan Rather-not, or Tom Brokejaw.

ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings died today at his home in New York City. He was 67. On April 5, Jennings announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He is survived by his wife Kayce Freed, his two children, Elizabeth, 25, and Christopher, 23, and his sister Sarah Jennings.

"As you all know, Peter learned only this spring that the health problem he'd been struggling with was lung cancer. With Kayce, he moved straight into an aggressive chemotherapy treatment. He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage, and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones. In the end, he was not.

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