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 […]
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.
The do-nothing Senate still hasn't passed the necessary appropriations bills for this fiscal year. Of course, it really doesn't matter, because, as the New York Times reports, the federal government's books make Enron's look like a textbook example of accounting principles. But that aside, the most interesting factoid is the first paragraph of the second […]
The LordMage reports on his "Adventures with Airport Security." It's funny -- because it happened to him. If it happened to me, I suspect I'd be exasperated or ticked off too. He also has some career options for Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta.
Sen. Fritz Hollings ($-Disney) and his proposed law, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, would require devices that can record or playback digital media to carry government-mandated copy-protection technology to thwart piracy. Princeton University's Edward Felton is compiling "Fritz's Hit List" -- a series of devices that would be affected by the new […]
I was going to wait to talk about the stem cell bill recently signed by California Gov. Gray Davis until I'd had time to digest it and until I'd heard what Ramesh Ponnuru had to say. The first of these things has occurred. To summarize, if you don't want to follow the link, Ramesh says […]
The mayor of a town in France has barred residents from dying because the town cemetery is full. Gil Bernardi, mayor of Le Lavandou on the coast 25 km (15 miles) west of Saint Tropez, introduced the ban after a court rejected his plans to build a cemetery in a tranquil setting by the sea. […]
You knew the kinder, gentler Paul Krugman couldn't last. Just a few days after a thoughtful analysis of the country's economic situation, with nary a vicious attack in sight, Krugman returns to his old ways with today's piece in The New York Times. [D]on't tell, maybe they won't ask. That was the message of a […]
Omer Salmain Saleh Bakarbashat, a Yemeni national in the U.S. illegally and scooped up in the post-Sept. 11 sweep of illegal aliens has pleaded guilty to immigration violations and awaits deportation. The San Diego Union-Tribune has an excellent article on Bakarbashat in which he makes the following observations of the U.S. justice system Though he […]
A report Tuesday in the San Jose Mercury News suggests that California has become a "pay to play" state under the direction of its fundraiser-in-chief Gray Davis. State officials allowed one of California's largest polluters to increase toxic discharges into San Francisco Bay shortly after the company donated $70,500 to Gov. Gray Davis, a Mercury […]