Plenty of buzz and back-and-forth going on about whether Iran’s president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was among the students who took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, holding captured Americans for more than a year.
Two former hostages swear he is. Others say no.
The story out of Iran is that Ahmadinejad won’t comment. Others there [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2005’
In final analysis, democracy is as democracy does
Schwarzenegger likely to be a one-term-inator
Arnold Schwarzenegger the actor is famous for saying “I’ll be back” in one of his movies. For Schwarzenegger the governor of California, “Hasta la vista, Baby” would be more apropos.
The latest Field Poll shows Republican Schwarzenegger on the wrong side of 57 percent of registered voters overall. Sixty-one percent of independents say they wouldn’t [...]
Speech revealing of who and what’s wrong
When he found a hole in the dike, the little Dutch boy in the children’s story knew enough to put his finger in the hole. He stopped the flow, kept the hole from getting bigger and saved the town from being flooded.
Note that the little Dutch boy did not call his playmates over and [...]
Justice might get hoist on his own petard
A Supreme Court justice who voted to allow the taking of private property through eminent domain for development by a private concern might learn why so many people are outraged by this decision.
According to a news release, a private developer has requested an application to develop property on which the home of Justice David [...]
Red, white and blue bluster won’t change the reality
At the end of a month in which 70 more U.S. personnel have died in Iraq, pushing the total well over 1,700; the vice president declared the insurgency is in its final throes; the defense secretary said the insurgency could go on for as long as a dozen years and admitted some kind of negotiations [...]
Sacrifice is for GI’s, not congressional Republicans
Quote: “This is not a party that is eager to be pulled into a Vietnam-like hell and then swept out of Congress in 2006 or 2008.”
Rumsfeld reconfigures truth with impunity
Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld put one over on the Senate Armed Services Committee and media this week. The inquiring senator failed to take exception and we’ve seen and heard nothing about it in the media.
When his turn at questioning came, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., recited a litany of Rumsfeld’s missteps and misstatements. These included [...]
VA chief compounds $1 billion screw-up
Look what happens when incompetents who disdain government get to run one, appointing lobbyists and political hacks to positions of high responsibility (news story).
WASHINGTON — The top Veterans Affairs official told key lawmakers Thursday that his agency is tapping its construction account to pay for veterans’ health care this year and will need at [...]
Texas voters are gluttons for punishment
Further proof, as if any were needed, that the majority of Texas voters are either hopelessly clueless or complete masochists comes in a Thursday story from the Houston Chronicle:
AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry’s plan for property tax relief would provide a windfall for the wealthiest families in Texas, but for lower-income renters the governor’s [...]
Media prefer to let past misdeeds be bygones
Quote: “Today’s political and media silence would appear to suggest that both players realize that last year’s real fraud by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was just politics. . . “
