5 August 2006 - Granite Grok

August 5, 2006

Go see this and read that

More photo doctoring from Hezbullah?  Little Green Footballs is all over the story that Reuters is trying to pull wool again.  No comment needed from me. And Weekend Pundit nails another aspect of the entire this war that gets no play in our MSM.

Update 4- A man’s home is his castle? Not quite…

Actually, maybe there is a faint ray of hope for the notion of a man’s home being his castle after all… . Regular readers will recall that I previously blogged a story about a Nashua NH man arrested and charged with illegally audiovideo taping police (saying some unpleasant things) as they stood on the porch of his home (in an attempt …

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Who’s in charge, and who’s country is it?

From the Washington Post comes this: UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 2 — Lebanon’s acting foreign minister, Tarek Mitri, said Wednesday he doubts that his government would agree to invite a European-led intervention force into southern Lebanon, citing fierce opposition from Hezbollah and its key foreign backers, Syria and Iran. Let’s see if I have this straight: …

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Stopping the anti-freedom folks – PCRM

From The Center for Consumer Freedom comes this story: The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is probably hoping you didn’t catch the news this morning. The PETA-linked animal rights group, dedicated to eliminating animal products like meat, dairy, and fish from Americans’ diets, was handed a decisive defeat Wednesday in federal court. Judge Henry …

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Taking away freedom – next!

The Foundation  for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) notes a new speech code at CSU: Colorado State University’s Residence Hall Handbook bans “hate incidents,” which it defines as: [E]xpressions of hostility against a person or property because of a person’s race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, ability, age, gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. …

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