Archive for September, 2002
Posted in September 25th, 2002
Kaus is officially a cheerleader and not a journalist Kaus offers up comments on welfare again and loses any sort of balanced approach. First, welfare caseloads are down. This may or may not be a good sign. One of the features of welfare reform is that states have every incentive to cut-off recipients and so […]
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Posted in September 25th, 2002
Hack Attack Dick Morris says polling is now unreliable. Actually, it is Dick Morris who is unreliable. Polling is more challenging now than in the past, but Zogby has overcome this by taking care in getting a random, but representative sample. Other pollsters still fall within the margin of error so the whining is, as […]
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Posted in September 25th, 2002
How to avoid the mistakes of your father and find entirely new ways to screw-up Learning from other people’s mistakes usually means one looks at the mistake, analyze what went wrong and then adjust behavior accordingly. Instead of doing this as a deliberate process, one could also choose to do the oppositve of the previous […]
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Posted in September 25th, 2002
A Charitable Interpretation Barney Frank just really bugs Dick Armey so he makes really stupid comments about any group Barney Franks is a member? Or maybe he is just a moron.
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Posted in September 25th, 2002
The problem with France Or perhaps the many, many problems with France are well discussed by Fareed Zakaria. I think this is good companion to my comments on the usefulness of the Security Council and the UN to the United States. Appeals to the Security Council serve our interest. If nothing else, it calls out […]
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Posted in September 25th, 2002
Help Wanted: Food Taster to protect against fundamentalists Lincoln Chafee needs a food taster according to John Breaux. Actually, the Rs can’t lose him. If they did, Rhode Island elects a Dem in his place. They ought to have learned to treat him with kid gloves given his threats to defect. You don’t see any […]
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Posted in September 25th, 2002
Friedman on Israel Thomas Friedman returns to his roots in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and agrees with little ‘ole me.
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Posted in September 25th, 2002
Where is Southwest? Why is it that Southwest isn’t asking for a bailout from the federal government as some of the bigger carriers are doing? Oh, they are profitable. Additionally, they don’t use hub systems. At some point airlines need to be allowed to fail. The current structure is obviously not profitable for many airlines. […]
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Posted in September 24th, 2002
I was too lazy to write this Fortunately, Tim Noah did it for me. Gore is consistent on his position. He is still a giant pompous ass though. Big giant pompous ass. Did I mention he is a big giant huge pompous ass?
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Posted in September 24th, 2002
Site Update I’ll be adding headlines to some of the articles.
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Posted in September 24th, 2002
Rendellism Definition of Rendellism: Blunt honesty about a subject most people aren’t talking about, especially by a party leader. Example. Rendell gave Clinton more headaches, but they were all dead on. Perhaps he can smack Al over the head some more and it will sink in.
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Posted in September 24th, 2002
Exactly what productive purpose do law profs serve anyway In a typical orgy of self-congragulatory masturbation by law professors, Volokh argues that John Dean is right on the 17th amendment. The argument is based in defending the Supreme Court’s decisions rolling back federalism. Too bad that the deciding factor for the Court is ideology and […]
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Posted in September 24th, 2002
Missouri River update Going back to this story Talent forgets to mention John Thune’s opposition to much of the Corps work on the Missouri.
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Posted in September 24th, 2002
It’s an Energy Crisis, really! Lowell Bergman is reporting on the California energy problems and a judge seems to agree that El Paso violated the law. Has he met Russell in the hotel yet? But you know price caps were the real problem….
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Posted in September 24th, 2002
Illinois Circular Firing Squad Racicot plays taps for the Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team.
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