The caption the White House provided for this image: President George W. Bush and Laura Bush pose for photos with singer Shaila Durcal, Dorio Ferreira Sanchez and the Mariachi Campanas de America following their performance in the Rose Garden Monday evening, May 5, 2008, during a social dinner at the White House in honor of […]
Government Denies Mandela Is “Vegetative”, AP/ABC News: Nelson Mandela is in critical but stable condition, the South African government said Friday, while a close friend said the anti-apartheid leader was conscious and responsive earlier this week. BBC News was a bit more forthcoming about the “close friend”, Denis Goldberg, identifying him as “a fellow anti-apartheid […]
Feds: Drugs made at kosher meat plant: Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried weapons to work. In a 60-page application for a search warrant, federal agents revealed details of their six-month probe of Agriprocessors. The investigation involved 12 federal agencies, including the […]
The mind reels: They were celebrating outside the governor’s office Friday as Eliot Spitzer handed a landmark victory to a half-million illegal immigrants. The state will no longer require proof of citizenship for driver’s licenses. “We’re changing our policy with respect to getting more people out of shadows and into the system so people don’t […]
Is there anything more hypocritical than the New York Times complaining about 9/11 tributes? Again it comes, for the sixth time now — 2,191 days after that awful morning — falling for the first time on a Tuesday, the same day of the week. Again there will be the public tributes, the tightly scripted memorial […]