The Minuteman Chronicles

NEWS
The battle lines are clear for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito: Moderates and liberals want him to repudiate his work for the Reagan administration while conservatives urge him to hold his ground _ or his tongue _ on issues that could provoke a Democratic filibuster. FULL STORY

Homeland Security opening private mail Last month Grant Goodman, an 81-year-old retired University of Kansas history professor, received a letter from his friend in the Philippines that had been opened and resealed with a strip of dark green tape bearing the words “by Border Protection” and carrying the official Homeland Security seal.

Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit Islamic terrorists to give our troops the AIDS virus. Sounds like "freedom fighters" (as Cindy Sheehan put it) to me.

Some in the Bush administration are finally admitting the Medicare prescription drug program is a big screw-up. Who do they blame? Karl Rove, says Robert Novak. Whoever is to blame, our children are going to be paying for it for the rest of our lives.

Whistle Blower??? If you work at the NSA and something your working on is classified, and you don't like it so you take it to the New York Times... That is not Whistle Blowing. That's called a breach of security. That's called a Felony. I'm sure the New York Times is fuzzy on this issue, but one thing is for sure, this guy deserves a lesson in Whistle Blowing, and hopefully he will get the harsh lesson in prison where he will get the change to blow a lot of whistles.

Harry Belafonte .. what a guy! Now he's calling President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world." I'm sure those words warmed the hearts of many liberals and almost the entire Hollywood crowd, Danny Glover, for instance. By the way, Belafonte works for the UN too ... as a UNICEF "goodwill" ambassador. Donated any money to UNICEF lately?

Fine...Howard Stern is switching to satellite radio today. Now will the media please talk about something else? Enough already.

According to National Review's Michael Ledeen, Osama Bin Laden died from kidney failure last month and is buried in Iran. I guess the only way to know for sure is to dig him up and do a little DNA testing.

Gas prices are going up again....and while the left will jump up and down and blame George Bush, they will do nothing to actually bring the prices down. You know, like drill for more oil in the United States and build more gasoline refineries.

LOCAL NEWS
The rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that is going on down at the Gulf has created an interesting side effect: massive corporate welfare. Did you know you're paying to rebuild casinos? George Will reports.

The New Orleans Saints have relieved Jim Haslett of his head coaching duties in a decision made by Executive Vice-President/General Manager Mickey Loomis. Haslett's tenure with the Saints stretched eight years with six as head coach.

Under his tenure, Haslett led the Saints to the NFC West title in 2000, followed by the team's first playoff victory and was awarded following that season with NFL Coach of the Year honors.

Only Jim Mora (1986-96) served as head coach of the Saints for a longer period than Haslett. Haslett's victory total is the second-highest in team history behind Mora.

SAD NEWS FROM PEACE LOVING MUSLIMS
Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists. An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece

HISTORY
Legal proceedings against Joan of Arc commenced on 9 January 1431 at Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government. Joan's trial for heresy was political. The Duke of Bedford claimed the throne of France for his nephew Henry VI, and she was responsible for the rival coronation. Condemning her was an attempt to discredit her king. The procedure was irregular on a number of points.

This is the funniest blonde joke ever. HAHAHA

OBSERVATIONS

Although I do think kicking terrorist butt in their home countries is a great idea, if we are all about safety of Americans, why are the borders still so ridiculous? I was flipping through the channels the other day and came across a movie where there was a line to get into the military base. The MP was checking credentials very carefully as people walked through the gate. One of the guys in the line noticed that it was easier to slip through a HUGE hole in the fence instead of waiting in line. So, for fun he went through the hole and showed his ID to the MP as he exited. Then went back in through the hole, exited again showing ID. On his 4th pass out the gate the MP finally catches on. Then they are more concerned with this mans ‘suspicious activity’ than the hole in the fence he is trying to tell them about. Sound familiar?