Bush’s Steely Dilemma: The tariffs are illegal So says the WTO. Actually, it was back in July that the WTO initially said that the steel tariffs, imposed in early 2002, contravene WTO rules. But the US appealed that decision. According to WTO rules, any country has one chance for an appeal, and the ruling of […]

More Freeway Blogging The latest from Scarlet Pimpernel: Brought to you by http://www.freewayblogger.com/ (where you can find an array of pictures taken from the highways of Southern California). AB

It Must Be True What They Say About Absolute Power From the Washington Post: Angry about a leaked Democratic memo, the Republican leadership of the Senate yesterday took the unusual step of canceling all business of the committee investigating prewar intelligence on Iraq. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called on the author of the memo […]

Greens Via Joe Conason: [Nader friend Robert McChesney speaking] “I don’t think Ralph should run. It would be bad for him personally; I doubt he would get half the number of votes he got in 2000. And it would be bad for the Greens … Core elements of progressive constituencies, exactly the groups that the […]

God Dammit, this Pisses Me Off Where are my libertarians at on this one? I can’t really even blame Bush, because it was just about as bad under Clinton. That is, things are in fact worse now than under Clinton, but it seems like the result of following a linear trend that started in the […]

And Reagan Became President of the United States in 1981, and It Was Good. The End. Education in Iraq: The first indicator of what a Saddam-free education will look like is arriving this month, as millions of newly revised textbooks roll off the printing presses to be distributed to Iraq’s 5.5 million schoolchildren in 16,000 […]

Imminent Threat Winner Josh Marshall’s been running a contest in which he asked his readers to submit the best quotes showing that the Administration did in fact state that the threat from Iraq was “imminent.” The competition was fierce, as exemplified by the various quotes in Marshall’s post. I won’t give away the winner, but […]

Bishop Takes Reverend … members of the church’s executive committee were told Thursday night that Bishop Douglas Thuener had removed the Rev. Don Wilson. Wilson opposed the consecration last weekend of Bishop V. Gene Robinson, as do many of the church’s roughly 60 members. AB

Good Job News, at least Assuming it’s not revised downward, it’s a vindication of massive Keynesian spending (demand side stimulus), not supply side economics. From Forbes: Just a day after Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan expressed hope the labor market would start to improve, the October payrolls report showed a 126,000 gain, more than double analysts’ […]

6 Soldiers Die in Helicopter Crash in Iraq 2 Others Killed in Separate Attacks in Mosul.