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Party Like It's 1959How pleasing it is to me that the White Sox won the pennant tonight over the Angels. Better luck next time, Angels fans, and don't forget to take all of your stuffed monkeys and inflatable plastic tubes home with you....Security Risk from "Contracting Out"?
Quaq-MiersIllegals at military bases raise concerns
Scores of illegal aliens working as cooks, laborers, janitors, even foreign-language instructors have been seized at military bases around the country in the past year, raising concerns in some quarters about security and troop safety. The aliens did not work directly for the military but for private contractors, as part of a large-scale effort by the Pentagon to outsource many routine rear-echelon jobs and free up the troops to concentrate on waging war.IF the bean counters had ANY security awareness at all, this could not be happening. If there was security awareness, the cost of checking security on these outsourced jobs would more than offset any hypothetical savings, to say nothing of the cost if just one of them turned out to be an Islamofascist operative with a plan.
Anothe case of "penny wise, pound foolish". Like the old comis strip character Pogo observed: "We have met the enemy, and he is us!"
Faithful readers will recall that, regarding the Harriet Miers nomination, I recently argued that conservatives must decide whether it is enough that Miers would vote right. George Will has an answer:In their unseemly eagerness to assure Miers's conservative detractors that...Democrats power grab
NewsMax gives us insight into the Democrats scheme that was being promoted by Chad Schuldt:Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are so pleased with reports that Leakgate prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is about to indict senior White House officials that they...Now Here is a Photo!
From Gateway Pundit, posted on Powerline:...What's In Your Garage?
Piggy backing on Jason's post regarding what's in Karl Rove's garage, I'd like to note a few things I found in Ken Blanchard's garage the other day: a hammer a measuring tape Jimmy Hoffa an oil stain Zuzu's petals a...Blogosphere and Loathing
My SDP colleague and former student, Quentin Riggins, appears to have irritated my friend at CCK, Chad Shuldt. Though I am not sure that Chad's intemperate language strengthens his case, he has every right to deploy profanity when he sees...The Baseball Body Blow
I still can't get last night's NLCS game out of my mind. Albert Pujols inflicted more damage on the Houston baseball psyche than the law ought to allow. The sound of that stadium when that bomb he hit ricocheted off...
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