Archive for March, 2008
Perino And The Pleasure Principle
Dana Perino yesterday, on the 4,000-deaths-in-Iraq milestone: And the President assures (the families of the fallen) that he is committed to staying and fighting and winning. And one of the reasons he’s taking such careful deliberation over the next few weeks as we lead up to the April time frame is because he wants to [...]
Just a Number
The controversial crosses of Lafayette, CA. Already obsolete. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
A Conspiracy Directed By The Fed
(1) A funny thing is happening to that offer that JPMorgan made a week ago to take over Bear Stearns. Battered down by news of serious financial problems, Bear Stearns’ shares had closed at $30 the previous Friday, when JPMorgan Chase — whom no one should mistake for an old-fashioned robber baron bank — not [...]
Telling Truth BY Power
Pakistan’s pseudo-democratic military dictator Pervez Musharraf has his faults — and we have remarked on them from time to time for many years now — but at least he is willing to admit the truth every little once in a while. On Sunday, speaking at a military parade celebrating Pakistan’s Republic day, he frankly admitted [...]
Don’t Worry, Hank’s on the Case
Jobless claims, index bode ill – AP (3/21/08): A rise in jobless claims and a drop in a key forecasting gauge provided the latest evidence that the U.S. economy is faltering and may be slipping into recession. [...] In Washington, meanwhile, the Labor Department said applications for unemployment benefits totaled 378,000 last week. That was [...]
Shorts
(1) Guess who’s the latest member of the David Petraeus fan club? None other than our Hillary: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a relatively rare shout-out to the military’s top man in Baghdad, General David Petraeus, calling him “an extraordinary leader and a wonderful advocate for our military.†Last we heard she still plans to [...]
Shamelessly Improving History
Before Hillary Clinton‘s story about her 1996 Bosnia trip mutated into “I remember landing under sniper fire” and “running with our heads down to our vehicles”, the party line was that it was a dangerous trip because “They said there might be sniper fire†when they landed at the Tuzla Air Base. Funny then that [...]
The Annotated President Bush
I had the good sense not to actually listen to Bush‘s speech yesterday. Here are some of the spontaneous comments that came to my lips as I read the text later. (Everything that sprang unbidden to my lips is not suitable for a family blog.) As (Operation Iraqi Freedom) unfolded, tens and thousands of our [...]
It’s Official
Bitch is indeed the new black. Or at least that’s what a new CBS News poll suggests: Interesting results out of a new poll conducted by CBS News: It might actually be easier for an African-American to be elected president than it would be for a woman. Survey respondents were asked two separate questions, whether [...]
Depends On The Definition Of “Fluctuations”
NYT: Martha Raddatz, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, sat down with Mr. Cheney in Amman, Jordan, one of several stops on a Middle East tour that includes Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Oman, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. After Ms. Raddatz asked about the economy — which he said was in “a rough patch,†[...]