While the left will have a collective hissy fit over Bush declaring six prisoners fit for trial by military tribunal, they will completely miss this: The top suspect wanted in the Riyadh suicide bombing was killed along with three other militants in a gunbattle Thursday when police raided their hideout in northern Saudi Arabia, officials …
Archives for July 2003
Bush and Money
Yesterday I questioned why every time Bush and money raising are mentioned, it is stated as if the act of fund-raising itself was evil, but when Democrat candidates raise money, it is proof of their viability as a candidate. From the NY Times, today: Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor making his first bid for …
And Now the Bad News
The nation’s unemployment rate shot up to 6.4 percent in June, the highest level in more than nine years, in an economic slump that has added nearly a million people to jobless rolls in the past three months. Businesses slashed 30,000 jobs in June for the fifth straight month, with cuts heavily concentrated in the …
Economic News
Graphic from NY Times More good economic news: Inspired by a bigger-than-expected rise in factory orders, investors sent stocks sharply higher Wednesday, taking advantage of lower prices after last week’s declines and extending the market’s advance to a second day. The Dow Jones industrials surged 101 points. Surprisingly strong sales at Starbucks, brokerage house upgrades …
Just A Question
Why is it that when it is pointed out that Bush might raise a record number of dollars (mainly through individual contributors), this is what is said: Bush’s fundraising goal is twice the amount for his first presidential race. All he has to do is show up at about 10 lunches, dinners and receptions over …
The New Meme
The new meme floating through the left flanks of the blogosphere is that Bush is going to lose because of “Bigot Eruptions.” Apparently a bigot eruption is not necessarily someone standing up and yelling “Nigger” in public like a Tourette’s patient, but a bigot eruption is whenever any Republican makes a political statement or proposal …
Defense of Thomas
Apparently affirmative action beneficiary/Uncle Tom/bigoted conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas isn’t as dumb as the bile on the left assert that he is- at least that is how the New Republic’s Jeffrey Rosen sees it: Next to the hyperbole of Kennedy and Scalia, the most convincing opinions in Lawrence were the most modest. In …