Is now almost a super majority: A CBS News poll shows Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with the Iraq war, President Bush and the Congress, as well as the overall direction of the country. More Americans than ever before, 77 percent, say the war is going badly, up from 66 percent just two months ago. Nearly …
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All Your Speech Are Belong To US
Good thing that school decision last week isn’t going to have an impact on political speech: Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district’s appeal of a ruling that it violated a student’s rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt. A seventh-grader from Vermont was suspended …
My View On The Immigration Bill
Sometimes the world is better off when malformed product of an unwise mating dies in utero. We probably can go on living as a country for the two years it will take for Dems to have almost total control over the legislative process, then Dems can craft a bill that at least has a coherent …
Proving What We Already Knew
Sam Brownback provided some evidence today to support what we already know- creationists aren’t very bright: Say, how come there are 47 yes votes when the roll says there were only 46? Ah, my friends, that’s because Sam Brownback turned out to be the weaseliest “no” vote of all. He voted yes right at the …
Great Moments in Stupid Rhetoric
Mark Krikorian, NRO: Today’s defeat of the Senate amnesty bill was more than a run-of-the-mill legislative victory, representing as it did a self-organizing public’s defeat of combined force of Big Business, (some of) Big Labor, Big Media, Big Religion, Big Philanthropy, Big Academia, and Big Government. So I looked at what else has happened on …
Now What?
Bush suffers what hopefully will be the beginning of a long series of humilating defeats: The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush’s plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections. After the stinging political setback, Bush sounded resigned to defeat. “Legal immigration is …
The Most Important Job In The Bush Administraiton
Unquestionably the Inspectors General for the various federal departments. If the people responsible for oversight took their job the least bit seriously every federal department would grind to a halt, just like the DOJ when since public pressure forced them to care about the attorney firing scandal. Ergo: Commerce Department Inspector General Johnnie E. Frazier …
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