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Another Bush Victory
UN sanctions on Iraq have ended:
The United States and Britain won an international mandate today to occupy and rebuild Iraq, as the Security Council voted to end nearly 13 years of sanctions. It was a significant diplomatic victory for the Bush administration, as France, Germany and Russia, the principal opponents of the American-led war, lined up in support of the measure.
The resolution passed by a 14-to-0 vote this morning while the chair set aside for Syria, the lone Arab nation on the Council, remained empty. This afternoon, the Syrian charg
In Their Own Words
On Hardball, while discussing new gun laws to help fight terrorism (stop giggling), Chris Matthews and Frank Lautenberg had this exchange (paraphrased- I will correct when the transcript is up):
Matthews: “What do you do when these gun laws to stop terrorists from getting guns might keep a guy who just wants to hunt from getting a rifle?”
Lautenberg: “That is just a chance we have to take.”
Aye carumba.
And Now For Something Completely Different
IN MLB, if a pitcher throws the ball, it hits the ground and then hits the batter, what is this?
Does the batter get a base? Is it a wild pitch?
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One More Try at This
Trying to get a straight answer on this issue is turning out to be impossible. I am going to try one more time.
You are sitting at a table, contemplating creating a fictional government. You are not at war, you have no budgetary needs, there are no starving children, welfare moms, bone thin elderly waiting on a social security check, uninsured sick, or anything of the sort. You are in a fictional world creating a fictional government. There are no rich, there are no poor, EVERYONE makes exactly the same amount of money. You ask yourself this question:
How much of my fictional citizen’s income do I think it is acceptable to take every year in the form of taxes. At what level of taxation would I say to myself, “X% is too much, it would be immoral to take that % from any individual.”
We’ll try this and see where we get.
Norah Vincent is Sorry
No one, not even the most vile partisan hack, would succumb to the temptation to sully Memorial Day with political agitprop over the conflict in Iraq. At least you would think that. You would be wrong. I don’t have the energy for a full frontal fisking, so I will just post her remarks and then respond the best I can:
We will and should say thank you a million times over to our veterans, as well as to those now serving overseas.
But in light of recent disasters like the one currently devolving in Iraq
Tell Em Dean
Dean Esmay on Democrat whining about Republican fundraising:
So. We’ll get to hear more handwringing from the whiners of the Left about how much more money Bush has than his Democratic challengers. But while you’re listening to this pathetic whining–and make no mistake, you’ll hear lots more of it over the next year or so—just remember: Democrats set the game up this way, and Bush handed them the rope by which they hung themselves.
It is truly deserving of unbridled contempt.