Via The Blogs of War, this interesting passage in Time: There are futility metaphors aplenty here: The contrast between the swaggering President and the squabbling Dems. The nonargument over periphera. The absence of an audience. But then, the Democrats have excelled at futility for more than 30 years. They have elected two Presidents during that …
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Two Notes on Terror
– I saw 60 Minutes frightening piece on Chem/Bio weapons in the former Soviet Union, and I realized half-way through it that someone, by tomorrow, will make the bad argument that we really shouldn’t have worried about Iraq, but we should be worrying about those old weapons labs in the former U.S.S.R. I am not …
Barnett on Bennett
Randy Barnett hammers Bennett. And he is right. I can’t even decide what to quote. Go read the whole thing.
Robbing Peter
This just about gave me an ulcer: Senate Republicans, struggling to make more room for President Bush’s cherished tax cut plan in their annual budget, yesterday settled on an unusual and controversial solution: raise taxes elsewhere. Under White House pressure to include at least a bare-bones version of Bush’s bid to eliminate the tax on …
Bill Bennett, One More Time
I have written about the Bennett gambling fiasco here, here, and here. I shouldn’t have wasted my time, and instead should have just directed you to Arthur Silber’s joint, because he says everything I wanted to the way I wanted to. So when the question of hypocrisy is raised in connection with the recent revelations, …
C’mon Andy
I am not sure what Andrew Sullivan is thinking about in this defense of Bill Bennett’s gambling: What, I ask myself, has he conceivably done wrong? He has done nothing illegal. He has done nothing hypocritical. Only in the minds of a few religious fanatics, has he done anything immoral. This invasion of his privacy …
Bwahaha
Jerry Falwell, Jim Baker, and now Bob Bennett- whenever someone spends all his time trying to tell you how to live your life, you know they are full of it: Some of Bennett