More bad news on the economy: Consumer confidence plunged in February to its lowest level in more than nine years, the Conference Board reported today, as concerns about a war with Iraq, rising energy prices and jobs took a toll on attitudes. The consumer confidence index, a monthly measure, fell to a reading of 64 …
Politics
Adios, Donahue
Donahue is done, effective now. 500 channels, and still no market for smarmy, effite, effeminate liberalism. Give him a radio show, guys… ** Full Disclosure** I watched Donahue a good deal, if only to see what he was going to say. I skipped the more noxious shows, like the one with Helen Thomas, but most …
Off Target
TalkLeft and Oliver Willis link to this story as supposed evidence of a return to the ‘repressive fifities.’ I use the quotes of sarcasm because Oliver and I were not alive in the fifties, and I have seen Jeralynn on television numerous times and she doesn’t look nearly old enough to have been alive then. …
The West Wing Hates the French, Too
I am watching the West Wing, and in this episode, President Bartlett sent in the military into a fictional African country to stop genocide during a ‘civil war’ (think Rwanda during the 90’s). At any rate, the French denied the Americans use of their airspace, and the last scene had the President shouting into his …
Fiscal Conservatives, My Ass, Pt. 27636732
Groan: President Bush will sign legislation this week setting a 2003 budget that raises federal spending by 7.8 percent over last year, capping a remarkable two years in which the federal budget increased by 22 percent. Although Bush has made controlling spending a recurring theme in recent months, the $791.5 billion spending bill for 2003 …
Another Casualty in the War on Your Neighbors
R.I.P., Ashley Villareal: A teenage girl, shot and killed by federal drug agents, was a victim of excessive force from law officers who were investigating her father, relatives and friends say. Ashley Villarreal, 14, died on Tuesday evening after family members requested that she be taken off life support at Wilford Hall Medical Center. A …
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Clemency Issue
TalkLeft points to a clemency petition that appears to be very worthwhile (I am against the death penalty, so all of them are worthwhile, but this one appears to really have a good case): Louis Jones Jr. is scheduled to die by lethal injection March 18 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. He …