I generally support proposals like this: With Congress heading into a politically perilous budget season, influential House conservatives plan this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years, balance the budget and drastically shrink three cabinet agencies. The legislation, part of a push by some …
Archives for March 2006
A Turning Point
While the opposing party is, by nature, supposed to oppose (something these Democrats just seem to have learned during the Social Security debate), it is also useful to have a clear agenda to take to the people that goes beyond “Not Bush”: News about GOP political corruption, inept hurricane response and chaos in Iraq has …
South Dakota – Demented Abortion Ban Now Law
South Dakota’s attempt to ban every abortion except where the mother will certainly die otherwise has made the final step into law. Carpetbagger has a good analysis of less-than-enthusiastic reactions among some pro-lifers. Basically, this seems like a good thing as far as abortion law goes. On a practical level it reinforces the picture of …
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Science News Roundup
* Satellite data shows Antarctic ice melting much faster than we thought: Two new satellite surveys show that warming air and water are causing Antarctica to lose ice faster than can be replenished by interior snowfall and thus are contributing to rising global sea levels. The studies differed significantly in estimates of how much water …
Rumors of My Demise
Have been greatly overstated. I am alive and kicking, but I am just up to my armpits with real life responsibilities. Missing a week was disastrous, and I am still in the process of catching up. Long story short- I am teaching two online courses, and I radically underestimated the amount of work that needed …
I Hope They Know About The Burning Bag Of Poop Trick
DHS – busy securing America against porn surfing and wrecked Ferraris, not so busy securing themselves: WASHINGTON – The agency entrusted with protecting the U.S. homeland is having difficulty safeguarding its own headquarters, say private security guards at the complex. …For instance, when an envelope with suspicious powder was opened last fall at Homeland Security …
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Somebody Else’s Fault
Listening to Matt Drudge last night I picked up the predictable-as-the-sun-going-down rightwing spin on the Iraq war: basically, if we fail in Iraq then a lot of people will blame the media for making it happen. He’s absolutely right, as long as by ‘a lot of people’ you mean Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity and every …