Entries for September 2006
Blackmail or threat?
No sooner does retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor launch her much-needed campaign against threats to judicial independence and immunity than I receive an E-blast from Concerned Women for America. The E-mail led me to a website with the headline "End Judicial Blackmail". "Judicial blackmail?" What's that?
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Let them eat fat! (but not trans fat)
Bold move or Nanny Culture? New York City's Health Department wants to ban artificial or so-called trans fats from use by NYC restaurants and other "food service establishments." All those guys on street corners with hot dog and bagel standards better give their ingredients another look-see.
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Release the whole NIE or admit its truth, Mr. Bush
Tell me something I don't know. Three major newspapers reported over the weekend that a classified National Intelligence Estimate written five months ago shows Islamic radicalism is flowering worldwide. And we planted the seed that gave rise to this boomerang of a crop by invading Iraq. An NIE is a consensus among the nation's 16 different spy agencies.
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Senator Allen's foot-in-mouth disease
That Sen. George Allenhe just can't do enough to alienate various ethnic and religious constituencies, can he? I mean, if you sat there and tried to dream up ways to offend Jews, who prior to this week really didn't pay much attention to Allen or to his religious background, you could not have produced a more complete shellacking.
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Party switchers
What goes up must come down. In national politics, what shifts right must reverse and head back left, or so it seems. For the past dozen years, all marquee politicians who switched parties headed rightdeserting the Democratic Party for an enlarging GOP tent. Is the pendulum now swinging in the opposite direction?
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IRS and religious left tread on sacred ground
Pity the poor religious right! It's being attacked by two sets of sinners: the religious left (yes, there is one) and the IRS.
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GOP slams Pelosi even when she agrees with Cheney
Is the impeccably groomed, stately looking, self-described "mother of five and grandmother of five" scaring Republican congressional leaders, or are they having a hard time getting their "groove" on while they learn to deal with a spitfire of a female opposition leader?
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About Bonnie Erbe
Bonnie Erbe has covered Washington politics since God was a baby. Because of that, and the fact that she's a native New Yorker, nothing much surprises her anymore. She has covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and occasionally the White House for radio and television networks. She also hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, and writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service. To the Contrary will allow you to lift the curtain of partisanship for a refreshingly non-partisan perspective on politics, the environment, religion, and issues that affect the lives of women, families, and communities of color.advertisement
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