Rev. Felix Owino’s sexual abuse case has been sent to a Fairfax VA grand jury. No court date was set at the hearing in Fairfax on Sept. 2.
He’s the Nigerian priest who was on the faculty of Wheeling (WV) Jesuit U. at the time of the incident, when he inappropriately touched an 11–year-old girl on July 7 in her Herndon VA home, where he was staying as a family friend, prosecutors say.
Wow. Have a look and listen to this doc on the Tea Party “from the folks at the Knoxville News-Sentinel,” per Instapundit.
About that much-discussed media bias:
It’s no longer even a case of bias: the Mainstream Media has been practicing full-blown content management–the manufacture and promotion of news that assists their favored party and ideology–for some time now. The “no news contrary to the Party line” is one of the reasons for the failing finances of the MSM and the robust growth of Internet news.
Nicely said.
Red State’s Erick Erickson on the just released Republican “Pledge to America”:
These 21 pages tell you lots of things, some contradictory things, but mostly this: it is a serious [sic] of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans because the House GOP does not have the fortitude to lead boldly in opposition to Barack Obama.
Other than that, he’s all for it.
He will vote Republican in November, he says, but “will not carry their stagnant water.”
Loyal opposition, therefore.
Yes, we recognize the ploy, do we not? It’s NYT man defecting to Huffington Post, where he can let his great thoughts all hang out:
[Peter] Goodman, who spent a decade at The Washington Post before his three years at the Times, says he will still rely on facts and not engage in “ranting.” And while he was happy at the newspaper, he says, he found he was engaged in “almost a process of laundering my own views, through the tried-and-true technique of dinging someone at some think tank to say what you want to tell the reader.”
Carefully chosen facts, at that. But that’s what you do: find an approved think-tanker or academic and launder your views, which nonetheless get out there, if under the guise of objectivity. The games newsies play!
What the heck is a quango? Not having immediate access to Diarmaid (I remember my spelling with diary-maid without the y) MacCulloch (also a tricky one), who uses it in the 9/10/10 Times Lit Supplement as something “set up” to do something. A group. It’s a collective noun, and a new one for me.
Oh yes. What do it mean?
–noun, plural -gos.
(esp. in Great Britain) a semi-public advisory and administrative body supported by the government and having most of its members appointed by the government.
Origin:
1975–80; qu ( asi ) -a ( utonomous ) n ( on- ) g ( overnmental ) o ( rganization ) or qu ( asi ) -a ( utonomous ) n ( ational ) g ( overnmental ) o ( rganization )
says Dictionary.com.
It’s an acronym, what do you know? Quasi autonomous (national) governmental organization.
Clever, these English people, though I’m not sure The MacCulloch would appreciate my calling him one of those.
Rep. Jackson: I did nothing wrong but ‘deeply sorry’ over ‘social acquaintance’
Chicago congressman vows to remain in office in wake of Sun-Times report regarding fund-raise
Sorry about what, if he did nothing wrong? Ah, there’s the rub. Sorry about the bad publicity, hence apology to “some of his supporters,” who share his sorrow about diminishing his political salability.
Which makes this a pro forma lie, typical of public-figure apologizing.
Mike Fahy: Interesting article in The UK Telegraph (London) noting that the Tea Party of December 1773 sparked the American Revolution against George III. But the modern-day grassroots Tea Party may play a key role in ejecting Barack Obama from the White House in 2012, thus restoring Anglo-American relations.
Unlike the Obama administration, the new wave of conservative leaders in the United States recognise Britain as America’s most important ally, are suspicious of EU-style supranationalism, and understand the great sacrifices that the US and UK have made in the defence of liberty and freedom across the world. One thing is certain if President Obama loses the White House in 2012. His successor definitely won’t be throwing a bust of Sir Winston Churchill out of the Oval Office.
Editor: Those 1773 tea partiers got a lot of their ideas from the once mother country, now didn’t they?
This New York Sun knows how to start off an editorial:
O Christian Martyr Who for Truth could die
When all about thee Owned the hideous lie!
The world, redeemed from superstition ’s sway,
Is breathing freer for thy sake today.
Those are the words of John Greenleaf Whittier on the monument of one of the women of Salem, Rebecca Nurse, who went to the gallows in the summer of 1692 for being a witch. Now, more than 300 years later, our greatest pundits are pulling their chins over a long-ago television broadcast in which the Republican nominee for Senate from Delaware talks about a teenage escapade in which she went with a friend who dabbled in witchcraft and sat on what may have been a wiccan altar, though she wasn’t aware of it at the time for the lack of blood.
Why can’t we do that in Chicago?
Obama answering Velma Hart at yesterday’s town hall, said you’re the kind of people “we want to reward.”
We? Who’s we? He being top dog in U.S. government, he must meant the government. What’s the government got to do with it?
We, meaning the whole rest of the country, find ourselves rewarded mostly by our own efforts, not a beneficent government, even in social security payments, which I know something about, which depend on past earnings and keeping up with FICA payments.
He says things like that because of his swollen notion of where gummint (my usual term in this context) fits into our (most people’s) lives, with special attention to his role as top dog.
Blithe Spirit 