This story on Congress and Spam is generally unremarkable, but I did find the byline interesting: Congress Finds Rare Unity in Spam, to a Point By JENNIFER 8. LEE Wasn’t there a movie named Jennifer 8? Was this reporter who it was based on? Or did the reporter take the name after the movie? Or, …
Archives for June 2003
Affirmative Action
As I stated before, giving people points solely because of their race is simply wrong and tantamount to a quota system. At the same time, I stated that “Only the dimmest of bulbs would begin to assert that blacks, in the past, were given a fair shake in our society, and only the equally block-headed …
New Mark Steyn
Screw Harry Potter- the new Mark Steyn column is up and it is free: It’s mullah time! The question now is whether Iran’s ayatollahs and the original ”Islamic republic” can survive the summer, or whether President Bush will mark the second anniversary of Sept. 11 with two-thirds of his axis of evil consigned to the …
Love Those French
Cute: For the second straight game, fans at the Confederations Cup booed when the “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played before the United States took the field. The whistling sounded louder at Saturday night’s 1-0 loss to Brazil than it was before the Americans lost to Turkey 2-1 on Thursday in Saint-Etienne. Really, they are not …
Very Interesting
By now you have heard, ad nauseum, all the details of the non-looting of the museum in Baghdad. Here is an extra little piece of info that you perhaps had not heard before: How much was taken is a matter of heated debate. The museum’s director of research, Donny George, told all who would listen …
Gail Collins, Busybody
Gail Collins, like most Democrats, doesn’t like how you are spending your money. Apparently, if soft money was evil, ‘hard’ money from individuals is worse. And get this- Gail points out that some of the people donating money to Bush’s campaign may have benefitted from the tax cuts passed in the past few years. Imagine. …
Good Read
On the whole, a very fair and well-written newsitorial in the NY Times: In fact, a review of the president’s public statements found little that could lead to a conclusion that the president actually lied on either subject. But more pertinent than whether the president told the literal truth is what factors he stressed and …