At First Glance… …I thought they were talking about Newt Gingrich, then I thought “or maybe Rush Limbaugh,” then I realized it was Diamond Bill Bennet. AB

Bush the Diplomat MSNBC NEWS SERVICES Sept. 19 — With little chance that a resolution on Iraq will be approved quickly, President Bush is pinning his hopes on face-to-face diplomacy — including meetings with two of the most vocal critics of his policy in Iraq, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder — […]

Yet Another Bush Failure: Steel Tariffs Later today the International Trade Commission (ITC) will release its midterm report about the effects of the steel tariffs that Bush imposed in March of 2002. It looks like the steel tariffs have been yet another Bush failure. The Washington Post discusses why, and has a fascinating peek into […]

US Morale in Iraq is Good. Really. Today’s Guardian contains a powerful commentary written by Tim Predmore, a US soldier who has been serving with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq since the beginning of hostilities. It starts off with this: For the past six months, I have been participating in what I believe to […]

More Lies from the Vice President Cheney’s lies about the existence of an Iraq – 9/11 connection on his Meet the Press appearance last Sunday got some long-overdue attention, as pointed out in yesterday’s AB post. But Cheney, being the fair-minded guy that he is, didn’t restrict his lying to just one topic. He actually […]

Blogs you might have missed Here are some blogs that are new, new to me, or that don’t get read as much as they should (in no particular order): Nitpicker (not sure how I missed that one until now). Skeptical Notion Modulator A Taxing Blog The Talent Show Eschaton Check ’em out. AB UPDATE: Dwight […]

Comments Policy I’ve noticed other bloggers catching a little flack when they delete comments without having an formal comment policy. To avoid that, here’s my announcement: Spam in the comments, even if it’s promoting a lefty site, will be deleted. For example “Cool site. Great post. For more check out my blog at XYZ.blogspot.com.” Linking […]

Sometimes Up is Up First, Dick Cheney spends much of last Sunday lying. Finally the press wakes up and decides to write a few articles that point out the lies (e.g., this). And there actually was a bit of a backlash. Then Don Rumsfeld actually tells the truth: “I’ve not seen any indication that would […]

Grasso Via Reuters: New York — New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso resigned his position during an emergency board meeting last night as the growing condemnation over his $140-million (U.S.) compensation package threatened to damage the exchange itself. There’s a lot of outrage directed at Grasso and his giant compensation package. For example, CalPundit […]

Lucky Duckies Again In the current New Republic, Jacob Levy offers a modest defense of the WSJ editors for suggesting that we raise taxes on the poor (the “Lucky Duckies”) in order to generate a consensus on cutting taxes. His argument is basically an appeal to we’re-all-in-this-together-ism: …it is the standard classical liberal argument for […]