This is why lobbyists get honor guards at their funerals. At a town-hall meeting in Hudson, N.H., Wednesday, (Wesley) Clark defended serving on corporate boards after retiring from the military in 2000 and registering as a lobbyist. "We were trying to make America safe. That's what lobbyists mostly do,'' Clark said. Imagine if a Republican, […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has identified fellow sufferers of BDS in today's screed masquerading as a political column. Krugman outs presidential candidate Wesley Clark in The New York Times as an acute BDS sufferer. [E]arlier this week, Wesley Clark had some strong words about the state of the nation. "I think we're at […]
Fox News has just reported (here's a link to the AP story) that President Bush has bypassed Congress and appointed Charles Pickering to the federal bench. The recess appointment puts Pickering on the appelate bench until the next Congress takes office in January 2005. Pickering had been one of a number of judicial nominees being […]
Why do so many scientists say there is credible evidence that evil humans burning fossil fuels is causing the Earth to warm blah blah blah? Simple. Money. Before scientists were concerned about global warming, they were warning us all about the coming ice age. When was that? About 25-30 years ago. The scientists trot out […]
Carol Moseley Braun is getting more air time for endorsing Howard Dean than she ever got when she was running herself.
Yesterday's Nicholas Kristof column is a must-read for the anti-globalization, anti-trade, left-wing fringe. I've written before that cheap labor is the most valuable resource of many poor nations, and Kristof vividly illustrates this point. Cambodia has a fair trade system and promotes itself as an enlightened garment producer. That's great. But if the U.S. tries […]
Carol Moseley Braun has decided to drop out of the race for the Democrat presidential nomination and endorse Howard Dean. My first thought: She wants a job -- probably another cushy ambassadorship. So, the big question is what does Dean gain from Moseley Braun's endorsement? After all, the latest polls show she has a following […]
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich was making the rounds of the various talk shows last night commenting on former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's recent revelations. (For the record: On O'Neill, I'm skeptical of much of what he apparently claims in the book by Ron Suskind. For a roundup on various inconsistencies between some […]
The New York Times is reporting that Geltzer, a bankruptcy trustee for the now-defunct magazine Lingua Franca has been sending letters to freelance writers threatening to sue them if they don't return fees they received in return for articles they wrote. Joanna Smith Rakoff, a writer who worked as a Web editor and wrote for […]
My Christmas gift from my sister and brother-in-law was the DVD Pop Culture edition of Trivial Pursuit. We played it the other night and, unsurprisingly, I won. The thing that troubled me was the fact that both my parents and my sister and brother-in-law were dismayed by the fact that I knew the name of […]