Well, the General Accounting Office, the investigative agency of Congress, has announced that it will sue Vice President Dick Cheney to force him to turn over information about his energy task force. Usually I'm all for transparent government, but I think this is going a little too far. There's no accusation of wrongdoing that has […]
The Washington Post's Sally Quinn has a great op-ed column in today's paper regarding kidnapping and the German court system. Americans, or any non-Germans for that matter, who marry a German national and then divorce or separate, risk having their German partner return to Germany and never see their children again. Quinn barely touches on […]
Just finished reading the State of the Union address and Rep. Dick Gephardt's (D-Mo.) response. They were both well done and, for all appearances, set a less-partisan tone in Washington. Of course, Gephardt isn't in a position to be an obstructionist like Sen. Tom Daschle is. My only quibble with either speech was Gephardt's apparent […]
One thing I did get to see early this morning when I returned home from work was a little item on Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Feinstein apparently visited the infamous Camp X-Ray and revealed how the facilities there were better than those at some California prisons, notably San Quentin. The senator said that if she […]
After working late Tuesday night and then having to be in at work Wednesday morning, well I haven't had time to check out the State of the Union address. Unless C-SPAN is showing it when I get home late tonight, I'll have to go with the written version. A critique of both Bush's address and […]
The Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web Today" includes an item from The Desert Sun of Palm Springs, which happens to be the place where I had my first-ever interview for a newspaper job. I'm reprinting the item here in full, because it's very scary. The Clinton Legacy The Desert Sun of Palm Springs, […]
It appears as though the Democrats may want to rethink their attempts to tie President Bush and his administration to the Enron failure. The Drudge Report is reporting that Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, helped by Global Crossing CEO Gary Winnick, turned a $100,000 investment into $18 million. (Refrains of Hillary Clinton's foray into […]
The effort to link the Bush Administration continues, this time in a witty, but stupid column by the Washington Post's Richard Cohen entitled "Enronomics Explained." The principle that the government can and should run a deficit to stimulate a sick economy was first propounded by John Maynard Keynes. This is called Keynesian Economics. The principle […]