Steeler Quarterback accused of rape

From the Associated Press: A woman has filed a lawsuit accusing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of raping her last summer in his penthouse hotel room at a casino in Lake Tahoe during a celebrity golf tournament. Roethlisberger’s lawyer denied the allegations Tuesday, and noted that the woman, who was working at the hotel as [...]

Catch-23

This is insane: An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position in seeking money for legal fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week. The report obtained by The Associated Press [...]

I have Issues with cell phones

Let me start by boasting about my driving. In over forty years on all kinds of roads, I’ve had two accidents, both of them fender benders. One was thirty five years ago in Afghanistan. Driving there was, shall we say, different. And the other one happened at three mph in one of those parking lot [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Entering Your Home While Black Black scholar’s arrest raises profiling questions Police responding to a call about “two black males” breaking into a home near Harvard University ended up arresting the man who lives there — Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation’s pre-eminent black scholar. Racial talk swirls with Gates arrest “It’s unbelievable,’’ said Lawrence [...]

This is NOT racial profiling

From the Boston Globe: Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in. The incident raised concerns among some Harvard faculty that Gates was a victim of racial profiling. Police arrived at Gates’s Ware Street home near [...]

Death Wish Democrats

Saturday’s New York Times featured a piece about how nervous the Democrats are getting over the proposed health care reform plan.  Democrats Grow Wary as Health Bill Advances is a curiousity.  According to the authors, the Democrats are so concerned that they will be painted as fans of big government that they have given very [...]

Monday, a Summer News Break

General News One Step Was Plenty First Man to Walk on the Moon Stoically Backpedals on Earth It’s not fair to call Armstrong a “recluse,” as many accounts of his life after Apollo 11 invariably have. He’s no cosmic J.D. Salinger or Howard Hughes, shunning the world out of spite or madness. Armstrong makes the [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Sunday Edition

Health Care Reform Alliances In Health Debate Splinter Months of relative cooperation among disparate interest groups in the heath-care reform debate appear to be coming to an end, as the major political parties and their surrogates unleash dueling television advertisements, e-mail campaigns and grass-roots protests. Which side are these guys actually on? Centrist Dems talking [...]

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What does Sarah really think?

I was reading the comments to Peter Daou’s article “Palin-Mania: How Goldman Sachs Robbed Us While We Obsessed About Sarah Palin” at Huff&Puff an I saw this comment from HuffPo blogger K. J. Dwyer: Hillary was pilloried by the Right as a means of diverting attention from her seriousness as a stateswoman, because they could [...]