Roll Call is reporting that House GOP member have been dissuaded from filing an ethics complaint against a Democratic House member after Minority Leader Dick Gephardt threatened to retaliate against Republicans. Roll Call outlines the case against Rep. Paul Kanjorski: GOP strategists and party officials had been contemplating for months filing ethics charges against Kanjorski, […]
I wanted to point readers to this Sacramento Bee column by Marjie Lundstrom before it dropped off the Bee's Web site. The article is something of an ode to what good laws can do. Last week a mother dropped her newborn child off at a hospital -- instead of into a trash can. The "Safe […]
Last week Krugman took on Bush and his connections in "privatizing" Utimco -- the University of Texas Investment Management Co. Well, someone with some credibility on the issue has answered Krugman, William H. Cunningham, former chancellor and former chairman of the board of regents of the University of Texas system. You can read the response […]
Hauser and others claim that there's something funny going on with Halliburton's accounting practices. I disagree. (surprised?) One commentator on the Halliburton item below pointed out that any cost-overruns on a Halliburton project would likely be contested. Though Halliburton would get paid something for the additional work, since it doesn't have the check in hand, […]
I'm leaving for the weekend to attend a wedding -- not mine. But take a look at John Fund's piece on today's Wall Street Journal opinion page. It's looking more and more that if GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon can avoid being heavily damaged by attack ads from Gov. Gray Davis' huge campaign war chest, […]
I've believed for years that the National Organization for Women's time has come and gone. Fox News columnist Wendy McElroy provides evidence that NOW is just nuts. I haven't seen any articles in any newspapers about the CANOW report -- but I would be very disappointed in any paper that reported this thing seriously. It […]
The following exchange occurred on Sunday's "Meet the Press" on NBC between Kansas GOP Senator Sam Brownback and California's own Sen. Dianne Feinstein. SEN. BROWNBACK: And I would hope we wouldn't have litmus tests on judges. It used to be that, OK, Ronald Reagan was accused of a litmus test on judge. We shouldn't have […]
The latest Christian Coalition voter guide is out. I got mine today on my car at church. I don't think churches should be involved in politics like this. I don't like it when (typically democratic) politicians go and speak in black churches. I don't like it when the Christian Coalition drops its voter guides on […]
Rep. Gary Condit, whose mistress Chandra Levy disappeared from Washington D.C. last fall, says that his re-election could help solve the case of the young woman's disappearance. "Well, I don't know what the public does and I don't know what you guys do, you probably won't even report it again if I'm not around. But […]
Well, the subject of recess appointments has come up again. With the Congress out of town, Bush can use recess appointments to help staff his administration. This isn't the first time that Congress has been slow in approving a president's nominees. When Clinton was in office, there were delays and fights over nominees. Clinton had […]