home > overview
Better Code Through Destruction
RSS DAILY HEADLINES
HEADLINES
McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?
The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.
One Last Look at the Republican Convention: the Balloon Drop!I was listening to McCain's nomination acceptance speech on the radio on the way to the airport yesterday and it sounded so different than it did in the arena. I actually got to hear the fiery end to the speech, the part where he said:
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We're Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
To see the balloon drop,
read more
FBIs civil rights initiative: no trials yet
(AP)
AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
