Sunday 25th [May 1862] We hear that Molly has left Richmond and is on her way home. That she is twelve miles from here at Mr. White’s. Abraham Lincoln was in town on Friday [May 23, 1862]. Our Mayor did not call on him, and I d…
AP:
Starting Saturday night, officers will check drivers’ ID and turn away any who don’t have a “legitimate purpose” in the area – a plan that has drawn swift criticism from civil liberties groups.
“The Constitution and the Bill of Rights should not become the next victim of the street violence,” said Johnny Barnes, executive director of […]
A fortnightly rant, FL-S style.
Intimacy in a relationship is a beautiful thing to behold.
Sometimes one doesn’t see it but one does sense it.
It is the energy exchanged by loving couples sitting quiety in a room: one is watching television and the other is finishing the Sunday crossword puzzle. Neither speaks a single word to the […]
As I headed home I could see yet another darkened sky to the west. My son had jingled my cellphone and asked me if I had seen anything good, mentioning that another series of storms was coming our way. Tuning in to my trusty weather radio I began hea…
After a quick dinner I noticed a storm on radar near the town of Orange. After a couple of radar updates the storm began to split in two and my internal antenna began to twitch. Given the instability and rotational parameters what I had just witnesse…
I really didn’t expect the sheer scope of Wednesday’s storminess, but I took full advantage of it. In one of my longest geographical chases I started the morning in Florida on a business trip, flying back into Reagan National around noontime in hopes …
The Big Picture – Boston.com
MSM still gets things right once in a while. This is well done.
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The Last Traffic Jam – TIME
via Kottke
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FactCheck.org: Soft on Iran
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FactCheck.org: Did Obama write that he would “stand with the Muslims” and that he nurses a “pervasive sense of grievance and animosity” toward whites?
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Now that we are into the political silly season, Evolved Homeschoolers can expect to be bombarded with emails and web sites making all kind of patently false claims about Obama. Whether you intend to vote for him or not, rational people have an interest in a fair and honest debate about who should lead […]
Since Stafford Education Association president Martin announced some of her members were going to “work to rule” and not put in one second longer than they had to to fulfill their contract, the rest of the population has moved on to other things….like finding the money to pay higher taxes, higher fuel prices, higher utility […]
The Washington Post:
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to stop cars this weekend in a Northeast Washington neighborhood inundated by gun violence, saying it will help keep criminals out of the area.
Starting on Saturday, officers will check drivers’ identification and ask whether they have a “legitimate purpose” to be in […]
