Thursday, I wrote about the underhanded methods used to extend the vote in CAFTA until leadership like the outcome. Today, let’s look at what CAFTA cost. According to the Opinion Journal, it cost billions right off the bat: President Bush had to twist a lot of arms to squeak his Central American Free Trade Agreement …
Archives for July 2005
And While Everyone Slept
Can’t take your eye off Washington for a minute: The Senate voted unanimously on Friday to make permanent virtually all the main provisions of the law known as the USA Patriot Act, after Republican leaders agreed to include additional civil rights safeguards and to forestall any expansion of the government’s counterterrorism powers. The House passed …
Poland
The Instapundit links to this Arthur Chrenkoff piece on Poland’s role in the expansion of Democratic governments: Says Poland’s deputy Foreign Minister, Jan Truszczynski: “Belarus is one of the last bastions of authoritarianism in Europe. The European Union will have to deal with these crackdowns in a more effective way. There should be some form …
The Daily Flame Thread
Rather than search the web for new Plame stories, I offer you this from yesterday’s Cleland thread: Democrats just can’t take their own medicine. For 5 years they have called Bush Hitler, Chimp, Shrub and who knows what else. NAACP ads depicted Bush as responsible for an African American being chained and dragged from a …
Cats on the Web
The NY Times discusses the dominance of cats on the web. Probably the easiest way to get a thousand bloggers to link to a Times story is to talk about cats on the web. Or call bloggers salivating morons. Either way. Speaking of cats on the web, don’t forget this week’s Ark. Alas, no dinosaurs.
Breathtaking Foolishness
I understand the need to attack, attack, attack when you are the opposition party. Really, I do. I remember what it was like pre-1994, when the Republicans were an amusing side-note to what was going on in DC. But this is just silly to the extreme: Tony Blair just caught all suspected London terrorists in …
No Frist in 2008
Like I said last night, it looks to me that Bill Frist has some polling data that shows there is no chance in hell he will win in ’08, because the expected threats over his reversal on the stem cell issue have begun: Focus on the Family Action founder and chairman Dr. James C. Dobson …