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Blackmail or threat?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 29, 2006 Comment (1)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)
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2006 Comment (3)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
Tweet Share on Facebook September 25, 2006 Comment (14)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
Tweet Share on Facebook September 22, 2006 CommentThat Sen. George Allen–he 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
Tweet Share on Facebook September 20, 2006 CommentWhat 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 right–deserting 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
Tweet Share on Facebook September 18, 2006 CommentPity 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
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2006 Comment (2)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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Death gap
Tweet Share on Facebook September 12, 2006 CommentIt's held true ever since birth stopped being a death sentence for an unacceptable percentage of American mothers that women have outlived men in this country. With newer studies tracking not just gender age gaps but racial gaps as well, we find that women of some races outlive men of other races by not just sententious but by chasmal gaps measured in decades.
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War moms?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 8, 2006 CommentIn my last entry, I talked about the president's reversal on al Qaeda, with Mr. Bush now saying we've denuded the group to the point where it is no longer the world's greatest terrorist threat. Instead, he says smaller, more agile terrorist groups are the target of our war on terrorism.
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Despite the PR, the threat remains
Tweet Share on Facebook September 6, 2006 CommentAh, we have a new counterterrorism strategy, I see. Could this, the cynic in me asks, have anything to do with the November elections? Our commander in chief is on the stump, trying to redirect Americans' attention toward what a great job he and his administration have done protecting us from another 9/11. He also struts his stuff, claiming al Qaeda is significantly downgraded since he sicced our military on it.
