And So It Begins… From today’s Washington Post: Just one week after launching a wave of positive commercials, President Bush went on the attack with a new ad yesterday, charging that Democratic challenger John F. Kerry would “raise taxes by at least $900 billion” and weaken the country’s response to terrorism and ability to go […]

Greenspan: Stop Cutting Taxes and Fund Education Well, actually, he didn’t say anything about how to pay for more education. But if it’s worth doing, it’s worth spending money borrowed from our children to do (because we know funding anything with taxes is evil): Congress needs to promote both the teaching of basics such as […]

I Doubt This Ad Will Resonate… And I rarely give the public at large too much credit. Via Ryan Lizza’s Campaign Journal: The ominous slow-motion footage comes about halfway through the 30-second ad. A female voiceover darkly warns about John Kerry’s agenda, charging, “On the war on terror: weaken the Patriot Act used to arrest […]

Bush’s ‘Manufacturing Czar’ From today’s WaPost: Bush Choice for Manufacturing Post in Question Six months after promising to create an office to help the nation’s struggling manufacturers, President Bush settled on someone to head it, but the nomination was being reconsidered last night after Democrats revealed that his candidate had opened a factory in China. […]

Horrible, Horrible A series of terrible terrorist attacks has hit Madrid, a city I love, and where my wife has spent several years, and where she and I lived together for over a year. It seems that close to 200 people have been killed. Now we face the awful task of tracking down all of […]

Bush/Cheney 2004 Via Wonkette, georgewbush.com has a nifty custom poster generator. According to Wonkette, you can’t make obscene or derogatory Bush/Cheney 2004 signs (my effort at “Dude: Where’s my 2.2 million jobs?” failed.) Limited to what I could get past the censors, I came up with these: AB

Voting: I’d Like a Receipt, Please I’m really not a conspiracy theorist, just a subscriber to Murphy’s Law (see this post.) Recently, Avi Ruben of Johns Hopkins’ Information Security Institute (co-author of this pdf paper criticizing the security of Diebold’s electronic voting systems) worked as an election judge in Baltimore County. Charles Kuffner has Rubin’s […]

GOP.com Here’s a useful tip for bloggers with writer’s block: just wander over to GOP.com and you’re almost sure to find something that will inspire a post. For example, just now I discovered this: Under the President?s proposal to speed up tax relief, 92 million taxpayers would receive, on average, a tax cut of $1,083 […]

Classy Move Howard Dean, today: “I will work closely with John Kerry to make sure we beat George Bush in November and turn our country around,” Dean said in a statement that did not specifically mention an endorsement. “There is a lot we can do together to rebuild an America that belongs to all of […]

Kerry/McCain 2004 I keep seeing this posted and emailed all over the place, probably because McCain didn’t exactly ridicule the idea: “John Kerry is a close friend of mine. We have been friends for years,” McCain said Wednesday when pressed to squelch speculation about a Kerry-McCain ticket. “Obviously I would entertain it.” On the other […]