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The Headline Says it All Page 1, Washington Post. Top Focus Before 9/11 Wasn’t on Terrorism: Rice Speech Cited Missile Defense. On Sept. 11, 2001, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was scheduled to outline a Bush administration policy that would address “the threats and problems of today and the day after, not the world of […]

An Inside Look at Rumsfeld’s Talking Points This is an interesting tidbit. Apparently someone walked into a Starbucks over the weekend and found some notes that were obviously written by someone prepping Rumsfeld for his Sunday morning interviews on the news shows. That individual then gave them to the Center for American Progress, the Democrats’ […]

Tomorrow’s Big Economic News I’m referring to the release of the March employment report, which will be released by the BLS at 8:30am tomorrow (EST). This is what CNN/Money has to say about it: Since at least November, there have been signs of a long-hoped-for jump in jobs, leading economists to make fairly rosy forecasts. […]

Wow! Great news today, on almost every front! Latest report: 600,000 jobs added in March; Bush now on pace to meet jobs projection in the Economic Report of the President. Budget will be in balance in 2006, due to rapid economic growth caused by Bush tax cuts. Trade deficit plummets as current accounts deficit turns […]

Angry Bear, Now With WorkingTM RSS (I think) I thought I had it working before, but based on a number of emails, the feed quit updating many moons ago. I think I’ve got it working now, and it gives the full post instead of just the first part. Here’s the link: http://angrybear.blogspot.com/atom.xml The link in […]