First, a bit of drivel regardings the war in Iraq. Has it been so much longer and harder than expected? I doubt it. Is the worst yet to come? Probably, in the form of IRA-style terror attacks. Next, a good article on the subject of affirmative action. Finally, more drivel, this time about Education Secretary…
Category: Politics
Democrats Dig at Cheney
The Democrats want to start another political boondoggle by playing off of Dick Cheney’s former position at Halliburton. I suppose it’s all part of minority politics. Having no vision, no platform, and no ideas of their own, Democrats seem to want to grasp at straws in order to make themselves relevant. I can almost hear…
Balance That Budget
I am loving the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the government over the budget shortfalls. As an IT professional, I’ve been fortunate to have made a decent living in my career, even in the era of failed dot-coms that never should have been started to begin with. Still, I have to manage a budget…
It looks like Trent Lott is going to be booted out as Senate majority leader over his remarks about Strom Thurmond having been a better presidental candidate than Harry Truman. Read the story on MSNBC.com It’s hard to decide which is the greater national idiocy, Lott’s incredibly inane remarks or the disproportionate backlash they have…
Shopping Sex Offenders
David Siebers, a registered sex offender identified by Albuquerque, NM sheriffs as one they “feel he’s a danger and there’s a likelihood he’s going to re-offend.” has been run out of town by Mayor Martin Chavez. One guess where he’s gone. Texas. Read the Houston Chronicle story. Thanks a heap, Mayor Chavez, for making your…
Trent Lott: How Could You?
Trent Lott’s foolish remarks gushing his support for Strom Thurmond are generating calls for his scalp. Predictably, these come from minority group. Read the N.Y. Times story. Trent, Trent, how could you be so stupid? Above all people, a U.S. senator should know that it is acceptable for minorities to criticize whites and pursue racist…
Legacy of 9/11: Big Brother
The Department of Homeland Security is coming. Will our privacy be destroyed under its heel? Student newspapers rarely have meaningful contents, but read Matt Chock’s essay in the Cornell Daily Sun on this subject. Consider also what the N.Y. Times has to say. Are you prepared to live under the microscope? Don’t think it can…
Safe Seats? Term Limits are the Answer
The L.A. Times reports that only five of the 153 races in the recent election were true contests. Read the story. Since politicians seem to have adopted gerrymandering as a means of preserving their jobs, there’s only one way to get them out of office: term limits. Incumbents hate term limits, which is nearly enough…
Republicans to Make Tax Cut Stick
Republicans are likely to make the tax cut passed last year permanent. To hear Daniel Gross tell it, that’s a bad thing. Not so. First and foremost, taxes are not a government entitlement. Reducing spending is not a crime. It is, however, inadvisable at this time. As demonstrated during the Reagan years, reducing taxes leads…
A Republican Sweep!
Well, perhaps not a clean sweep, but certainly a prevailing breeze is in the air. For the first time in many years, the President of the U.S.A. will have a Congress controlled by his own party. The fact that the rulers are the Republicans, a party that generally respects party lines, indicates that the vast…