Tony Auth has a great cartoon which points out how stupid it is to insist that the captured al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists be classified as Prisoners of War under the Geneva Convention.
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 […]
The Chinese man who faced a possible death sentence for smuggling Bibles into China has been sentenced to two years in prison. He may end up being freed right before President Bush visits China next month. The man, Li Guangqiang, has already served 18 months. The truth is that he should never have been arrested […]
Well, I usually read Ann Landers and Dear Abby daily for a good laugh. A vast majority of the people who write in for advice lack the common sense God gave most people, it's amusing, but it's also good that there's someone with a lot of horse sense available for the wisdom-challenged. Ann and I […]
Well, I know how to program a VCR...I just can't seem to do it right. After spending the evening marking my friend Laura Little's imminent achievement of the quarter-century mark, I came home to watch the SDSU vs. UNLV mens basketball game. Which I had taped -- or so I believed. Turns out, instead of […]
Margaret Carlson is either lazy or a liar. On CNN's "Capitol Gang" the Time magazine columnist made the outrageous claim that, though Enron did not get bailed out, they got everything they wanted up to that point. A few minutes later Robert Novak corrected her. If you missed it, I already went through what Enron […]
An article in today's Washington Post says that Secretary of State Colin Powell is urging the president to classify the captured Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners as "prisoners of war." The al Qaeda and Taliban fighters that are being held in Afghanistan and Camp X-Ray are currently classified (accurately) as "unlawful combatants." They earned this […]