Hot women cheat on their husbands. Dog bites man.
Chavez changes his tune, begs for US oil bids.
The Inaugu-palooza
Thank you, President Bush. Anchoress
The Islamic way of war. Middle East Forum
Joe Who?
Reason #1343 to screw the UN
Moral inversion: Che = Batman
Who can improve schools - parents or bureaucrats? Bureaucrats will only protect their own interests. That's their primary job.
In favor of de-skilling. From Stumbling:
Rather than raises people’s skills to fill demanding jobs, why don’t we cut the demands of those jobs? Deskilling is cheaper than education.
Makes sense to me. I ain't overly eddicated, but I does OK wit my wits and from the School of Hard Knocks which taught me to always come back stronger and smarter when the mean old world knocks me down.
Here's what the "smart" stimulus will include. I earned that money. Related: The ethics of taxation.
Boortz:
Since when does the IRS acknowledge the concept of an "innocent mistake?"
From Nyquist:
According to President Bush, “We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.”
The president’s statement is logically correct, but strategically nonsensical. While the “expansion of freedom” is desirable for America, it is prohibitively costly and beyond our capabilities. It antagonizes every despot on the planet, and causes them to join with our enemies.
From AVI:
...Jesus must be made into the Original Gandhi. Rubbish. Christian pacifism is a high calling, and it might be asked of any of us. But it is not the only calling, and not the highest.
From Luskin:
Conservatives may rightly object to all this government meddling in private markets on general principle. But the more salient objection is that government has botched it. The attempts to deal with failures at Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia were not rescues or bailouts at all—they were wipeouts, seemingly intended more to punish than to rescue. They were government takings of private property for public use—seizures of shareholder wealth in troubled firms in the name of saving the system—without the just compensation promised in the Fifth Amendment and often beyond the legal authority of the government agencies involved.
Editor: As always, I (and our other contribs) added to this NJ post. I just got an email from a BD pup that she could see the airplane in the Hudson from her window on the West Side of Manhattan. That pilot is a hero. You have to admire those nerves of steel and the quick thinking. That was a 3-4 minute flight. I want that pilot Sully on my next flight.
