It looks like the week-old rioting in France is getting worse: Angry youths clashed with police and firefighters outside Paris late Wednesday in the worst of seven straight nights of violence set off by the accidental death of two teenagers. By late Thursday, more cars were burning in at least one of the city’s northern …
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The Markets Speak
This should make some things clear about what the public is clamoring for in these times of uncertain and shaky fuel supplies: Toyota Motor Corp.’s profit rose 2 percent in the July-September quarter, lifted by growing sales around the world — in sharp contrast with the dismal results at U.S. counterparts General Motors and Ford. …
I Can’t Support This
This seems to me to be over the top and out of line: New Jersey’s bitter governor’s race turned more acerbic on Thursday as Republicans released a television ad featuring harsh words about the Democrat, Jon S. Corzine, from his ex-wife. Democrats responded by calling the commercial a sign of desperation, and Acting Gov. Richard …
Things That Make Me Laugh
Humor through juxtaposition: Look, let’s talk turkey. McClellan isn’t a very good press secretary, to put it mildly. He looks as though at any moment he is going to bolt from the podium and go running into the bathroom to throw up. Karl Rove is the most effective White House strategist in our lifetimes. – …
Alito and Casey
Jeff Goldstein has an interesting analysis on the Casey/Alito bit that we have been talking about for the past few days. This Matt Welch piece about Tony Pierce is also tangentially related.
Malpractice Premiums Drop in West Virginia
Some good news in the Mountain State: The West Virginia Mutual Insurance Company has been granted a 5 percent rate increase according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. The new rates take effect Jan. 1, 2006. West Virginia Mutual filed for the rate decrease with the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner in August. The decrease …
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Oil Profits
The inevitable and misplaced backlash against the oil companies begins: The major oil and gas companies knew there would be a public backlash against their massive profits from higher fuel prices and took out advertisements urging conservation, suggesting they were looking out for consumers. Yet Amy Myers Jaffe, energy expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute …