Call It A Comeback
I had hope. This dashed it. This is shorter than his average blog entry and it appears from reading the entire article he is criticizing, that Mary McGrory is primarily guilty of poor writing. She seems to be referring to domestic oppression, but without any transitions from one part of the article to the other the distinction is blurred.
This is a waste of bandwidth. Sullivan has great things to say on some subjects such as diversity and the Catholic Church.
This is Karl Rove on drugs. Perhaps he’ll send Bush to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner.
When you need a laugh during the day, go here.
The fruitcakes are amazing…
The Trib did right. And I think this is the key point:
“I simply don’t think that a newspaper can sanction that kind of behavior,” said Rich Oppel, editor of the Austin American-Statesman. “It’s a conflict of interest when you have a close personal relationship with the subject of an article. It’s the same as if you were to have a financial relationship with the subject of a story or some other close relationship.”
I have to wonder where all the whining about the UN comes from. The General Assembly has all sorts of problems, and I don’t want to excuse those. Financially, we should get them to clean the mess up and we’ve taken a lot of steps to do that.
However, when it comes to the Security Council, the UN is largely a tool of US power. Of the five member we almost always have one vote locked up, one for sale (Russia), and one that bellyaches and then is up for sale as an abstention so they don’t veto a plan, and well, then the real problem France. Admittedly, France is useless and only got the seat because of postwar politics. The Security Council is deigned to hold power in those few hands and the US with decent leadership accomplishes a great deal with it.
The Council doesn’t have deal with every small country in the world and it is empowered to act easier than any other body. Even more important, any UN Military action can be vetoed by us, thus giving us a lot of control over multilateral actions when we aren’t involved.
We’ve got it pretty good. A little massaging and we do extremely well with the Security Council except on issues relating to China or Russia. Well, that and when the French get a bug up their ass. It isn’t perfect, but it provides the US an important institutional mechanism to get world support, with very little actual support from the other nations.
This is truly outrageous. You can die for our liberties, but Congress is going to restrict your liberty over your body.
The proper response to the pot question was properly demonstrated by Bill Bradley on ABC This Week when he was asked. He replied that yes he had on many occasions, and then turned the question on Sam, Cokie and George Will. Sam, yes, Cokie no, and George Will drank a lot of whiskie in Illinois Cornfields, but no pot.
Blago actually answered in a straightforward manner and then let the press catch him in a series of awkward questions about whether he inhaled. He isn’t sure, and they got the headline they wanted.
Looks like the Jihad wing of the Kansas Republican Party is about to get a big ‘ole ass kicking. Sebelius is up 17 points and over the magical 50% mark. Kansas may get a functioning Democratic Party yet. If evolution becomes an issue again, it will promote party reallignment. Moderate Republicans like to have kids educated in science. They are funny that way.
Taking one for the team. Thanks Janet. Let’s go Bill!
Long-Term stability in the Mid-East hinges on this critical issue.
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