Emperor Hadrian Webb’s claims in the first two paragraphs quoted in the previous post remind me of this quote, provided by commenter Megamike: “Beyond the Euphrates began for us the land of mirage and danger, the sands where one helplessly sank, and the roads which ended in nothing. The slightest reversal would have resulted in […]

Not Mincing Words In today’s USA Today, James Webb (“Secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration, and a Marine platoon and company commander in Vietnam”) leads with some harsh criticism of Kerry, paticularly Kerry’s involvement with Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Conason summarizes and casts doubt upon the attacks against Kerry.) But Webb’s greatest […]

The Truth About Kerry The Poor Man has the partial truth here; retrogrouch has the full truth here. Follow the links, you’ll be glad you did. AB

More Republican Science-Quashing In the spirit of AB’s post about the Bush administration’s bastardization of science, allow me to draw your attention to this article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer last week, about the Ohio state board of education’s vote to teach a competing theory to evolution: State panel backs disputed lesson, infuriates supporters of […]

The Politicization and Bastardization of Science I’ve been meaning to write about this issue for a while; fortunately, Chris Mooney has been doing such a good job that I don’t have to. In a nutshell, the Bush administration is replacing dispassionate scientific analysis with political calculation on issues ranging from climate change to health policy […]

Japan’s Long-Awaited Recovery Japan’s economy has been in the doldrums for years now, with occasional small periods of modest recovery that quickly died out again. But things may be changing, finally. The Economist (among many others) has been pointing out that, as they put it in a recent article, “for the first time in a […]

What’s Happening to Consumers? This is interesting, and not in a good way: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Consumer confidence plunged last week, matching its steepest drop on record in more than 18 years of weekly polling by ABC News and Money magazine. This follows a sharp fall in the consumer confidence by the University of […]

Jobs Forecast Kash and I (and Brad) had a lot of fun last week laughing at the laughable jobs forecasts in the current Economic Report of the President. We all wish they were true, but we’d all also like to win the lottery — and the odds of each are about the same Via The […]

Bush’s Record Hey Bubba, let us know what you really think of President Bush. AB

Strange Bedfellows I don’t know what to think when I’m basically agreeing with AEI’s Jim “Dow 36,000” Glassman on free trade. I guess I can take solace that Glassman, and vicarously, me, were disagreeing with the foolish blowhard, Lou Dobbs. AB