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The Circle is Complete Read this piece: Job Market Worst Since Early 1990s. When finished, click here and picture Bush qua Mr. Burns. AB

Adding to the Chorus This guy should really be kept far, far, away from the 11th Circuit Court, or any other Federal bench. Signorile’s got a great overview of Pryor’s views. In a nutshell, Pryor’s view is that we need God–the Christian God–everywhere…In schools, courts, federal buildings, your office, your car, and, especially, your bedroom. […]

Monkey See… Again, today’s NYT has a story that’s mixed at best for the administration. In this instance, it’s about the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo. Hell, the title of the story is “Tales of Despair From Guantanamo“. But right near the beginning, in paragraph four, appears this phrase: “None of those interviewed complained of […]

Dueling Quotes On Libertarians, I previously wrote that “now, if I could just make Libertarians realize that sometimes we’re all better off when the government puts its hands in our pockets (you know: “form a more perfect Union”; “promote the general Welfare”)”. Now Amy Phillips comes at me with this quote from James Madison: “If […]

More Bad Press Even Bob Somerby generally endorses the theory that the press are more lazy and stupid than conservative, per se. This, of course, excludes Fox News, The Washington Times, The New York Post, and the like. The laziness manifests itself via a herd approach to reporting the press’s collectively received wisdom. Al Gore […]

Becoming Sane Read Kristoff’s editorial and note how, as Josh Marshall points out, Kristoff waffles a bit at the end, writing “But it does look as if ideologues in the administration deceived themselves about Iraq’s nuclear programs”. See? They didn’t decieve the public, or at least if they did do so, it was only because […]

Bizzaro World What did I tell you? Two posts ago, I called the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page “just plain wacky”. Six posts ago I recommended a fairly new libertarian blogger, Amy Phillips. Now Amy reports on more wackiness from the virulently pro-war editorial page of the WSJ: WSJ editorial writers are using the lack […]

Need to Get a Little Freaked Out before the Weekend? Read this from South Knox Bubba. AB

A Lucky Ducky Speaks Up One of my earliest posts was on the subject of the “lucky duckies”, deemed Lucky by the writers for the editorial page of the WSJ because they make so little money that they pay little or no income taxes, though they pay substantial payroll taxes. Via The New Republic’s Blog, […]

Consumer Sentiment Down “University of Michigan’s closely watched gauge of consumer confidence slipped to 87.2 in June from May’s 92.1,” Reuters reports. Gains in the stock market (it’s about where it was a year ago, after being way down), and dividend tax cuts, cuts in the top marginal rates, and expansion of the 10% bracket, […]