The good first: Still, Iraq is in most respects further along the road to recovery than we could have expected before the war. All major public hospitals in Baghdad are again operating. Sixty percent of Iraq’s schools are open. Nationwide distribution of food supplies has resumed. Despite some damage to the oil wells, petroleum production …
Fallen Heroes
The Washington Post has a collection of pictures of all the photos of our soldiers lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Very depressing.
Coastal Drilling
This makes sense to me: The Senate voted today to allow a federal inventory of offshore oil and gas reserves, a program that opponents said would undermine longstanding bans on new drilling along much of the nation’s coastline. Considering a broad energy bill, senators voted, 54 to 44, to let the Interior Department use a …
Changes to Head Start
Some of the proposed changes in the House Bill to reform Head Start: The $6.8 billion bill drops plans to transfer Head Start to the Education Department from the Department of Health and Human Services in what was probably the most visible signal of the new academic emphasis. The measure, however, would still require all …
This Is Good News
Times are a changing: A third night of student protests outside Tehran University’s dormitories exploded into the surrounding middle-class neighborhoods early today, with large gangs of students fighting running street battles against vigilantes armed with sticks and chains. At one major intersection demonstrators hurled bricks at trucks of riot policemen who were rushing to lift …
Policy Changes
Good: Federal authorities said today that they planned to use stricter standards for identifying and locking up terrorist suspects in light of concerns raised in a recent report that hundreds of illegal immigrants were mistreated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Law enforcement officials plan to make at least 12 structural changes that were recommended …
I Am So Disgusted
I am getting to be so disgusted with this new ‘compassionate’ Republican party that I don’t know what to think anymore. The deficit is what, 400 billion? I can’t even keep track of the damn thing, it is growing so fast. I am all in favor of tax cuts, but could I please see ONE …