Monday, October 31, 2005

Video blogging

Review: Blogging Tools Need Integration

Bit the hand that fed them

A Texas woman was allegedly robbed and killed by three hurricane evacuees she befriended after meeting them at her church, according to Pasadena, Texas, police.

Betty Blair, 77, was strangled to death inside her Pasadena home Friday and her bound body was discovered by her daughter Friday evening, said Pasadena Police spokesman Vance Mitchell.

Three suspects -- all described as hurricane evacuees -- were arrested Friday evening after police located the dead woman's missing car through its OnStar electronic tracking system, Mitchell said.

The three had been hired by Blair to do odds jobs around her home, including cutting her grass, Mitchell said.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Condi vs Hillary?

Political strategist Dick Morris has written a book, the major premise of which is that only Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice can beat Senator Hillary Clinton is the 2008 presidential election.

Abortions for inmates?

Should states facilitate abortions for inmates?

"It is not the prison that has imposed the burden, but the prisoner's violation of the law that resulted in her incarceration that has imposed the burden," [Missour] Attorney General Jay Nixon's office said.

Sunday, October 02, 2005

Operation Iron Fist

Thirty-six terrorists killed, so far (two days), in Operation Iron Fist.

"There's only so many of them out there," [Marine commander Col. Stephen W.] Davis said of the insurgents. "The enemy has a problem out here every time he shows up he gets bombs dropped on his head ... What you're seeing now is the dissolution of their network."