This is a liberal I can respect.
According to The Washington Post Bush is going to direct the Food and Drug Administration to issue rules allowing for quicker approval of generic drugs. Democrats, however, are skeptical. As word -- but not the details -- of the White House plan began to filter out last night, the association representing generic drug manufacturers said […]
While scanning through some recent columns by Nicholas Kristof on Iraq, I came across this one from October 11 that mentions North Korea. In 1994 the vogue threat changed, and hawks pressed hard for a military confrontation with North Korea. We came within an inch of going to war with North Korea, in a conflict […]
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has come to the conclusion that Arabs can't handle democracy, and any suggestion to the contrary is a "pipe dream." Listen to the American hawks after a few glasses of wine, and you might be seduced into thinking that after overthrowing Saddam Hussein we're going to turn Iraq into […]
The New York Times' Paul Krugman identifies who is to blame for all of the nastiness in Washington, D.C. -- President Bush. Like little Jeffy in Bill Keane's sappy comic, anytime something is amiss it's Bush's fault. In Jeffy's words --- "Not Me" did it. [Y]ou may recall that George W. Bush promised, among other […]
The New York Times' editorial page has finally seen the light on North Korea, after being hit on the head with the fact that, yes Virginia, they do have nukes. Because North Korea has now violated solemn international weapons agreements, any new understandings will have to be verified unconditionally and highly intrusively. If there is […]
You don't hear screaming from liberals so much anymore as more and more Enron executives are pleading guilty to fraud. Despite the assertions that the GOP is the friend of big business, and therefore averse to prosecuting white-collar wrongdoing, each guilty plea shows that claim to be false.
I've had some requests to create some feature of some sort to help those interested in tracking the midterm Senate races. That is still a work in progress. But, in the meantime, here's an article by a Dakota State University poli-sci professor on the Johnson/Thune race in South Dakota.
Over at National Review Online, Mark Goldblatt presents us with the Dowd Rule: "No one who thinks George W. Bush is stupid is as smart as George W. Bush."