Cato reminds us that the US Attorneys scandal is just as good an opportunity as any to sack the Little Legal Creep. He represents what’s worst about lawyer — the ability to find loopholes and precedents in law to justify anything they want. Torture, war, suspension of habeas.
Sigh. Of course, Bush will just replace him. Possibily with someone worse.
Yeah, I like Fred Thompson.
A Maryland town bans toilet paper because some . . . shits . . . set it on fire.
Nothing like punishing the innocent, is there?
CNN discovers, after months of debate, that leaving Iraq might be a bad thing. I guess it’s better than discovering it after we leave.
Read John Stossel’s account of the school choice wars.
There are few political powers more ruthless, more vicious than the teacher’s unions. These are nothing but pure power brokers who hide behind innocent children and hard-working teachers to advance their agenda. In a way, they remind me of Bush’s supporters — his few remaining supporters — who insist that any disagreement with their agenda is not “supporting the troops”. Big Education insists that any attempt to change our broken education system is “anti-education”, “anti-teacher” or “anti-children”.
We are not talking about a bunch of teachers sitting around singing Kumbaya. We are talking about one of the most powerful and ruthless special interests in the nation. They have long had the gloves off when it comes to attacking their political opponents. It’s time we took the gloves off too.
Lou Dobbs is full of crap. It took me a long time to grok that the trade deficit is not a bad thing. Dobbs is smart enough to know better. So are the Democrats. This is pure pandering.
Funny, the headline didn’t read “no wonder the Dems want to eliminate votes on unionization.”
Yeah, right.
Leave it to the EU, the Human Rights organizations and the State Department to support an Islamist Turkey. ‘Cuz it would be democratically-elected, dontchya know. The Turks, better than say the Bush Administration, seem to understand that religion should be a personal thing, not a governing philosophy:
Mehmet Gunes, 39, whose wife was wearing an Islamic-style headscarf, said: “We support what the army said. It’s a warning. My wife wears a headscarf — we’re not against that. We came here to stand up for a secular, enlightened Turkey. Our children’s future is important.”
Democracy is only one of the safeguards of freedom and not a particularly good one. I hate to risk Godwin’s Law, but we’ve seen democracies elect some pretty awful people to high office.
Even though I’m a scientist, I’m against this ham-fisted attempt by our Congress to improve science education. It’s yet another attempt to micro-manage our education system. It will almost certaintly have negative unintended consequences and fail to achieve its goals. My guess as to the negative unintended consequence? A deluge of frankly unqualified people in science majors and science education.
And, of course, there’s nothing in there about education freedom. Congress could make improved education a lot simpler, a lot better and a lot cheaper by just encouraging school choice. But we can’t have that. The unions would hate it. The government would lose power. The shithead parents would be in charge.
Plus it might work. And that would obviate the need for more compassionate spending by our Congress.
Well, Giuliani just lost my vote.
“I listen a little to the Democrats and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense,” Giuliani continued. “We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-Sept. 11 attitude of defense.”
Let’s see, accuse the Democrats of appeasing terrorists. Check. Support the intrusive useless Patriot Act. Check. Support torture. Check. Warrantless wiretaps. Check.
Asshole.
I am still a Man Without a Party.
Sully links to this diatribe about how Haley Barbour’s budget cuts to Medicaid are killing babies. It’s possible they are on to something. But it sounds fishy to me.
All that having been said, I must admit that it is the politics that makes by BS meter twitter. The NYT specifically, and most lefties generally, have been predicting a massive disaster from welfare cuts for years. Of course, I’m not sure how any disaster can be worse than the destruction visited on the African-American family by the Great Society welfare state. But this is the Left’s first chance, after a decade of welfare reform to say, “See! See! We told you welfare cuts would kill babies!”.
As I said, maybe they’re right. Maybe Barbour’s budget cuts are killing babies. But I think we need more than one year of data — and a disastrous year at that — before we start pronouncing someone a black baby killer. No?
No?
Well, he is a Republican I guess.
The governor of Mass has ended abstience only education. I despise the way this is portrated as an either-or. The programs that teach about condoms and birth control also teach about absitenence. Of course, they don’t do it with “Monster in Your Bed” stories about catching AIDS from tears, so there you go.
Am I the only one who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about how much John Edwards pays for a haircut or whether Rudi Giuliani knows how much a gallon of milk costs?
I didn’t think so.