Radio talk-show host Neal Boortz pretty much sums up a lot of the way I feel about President Bush:
Other than his determination to defend our country from Islamic radicals and his economy-boosting tax cuts... what real conservative credentials does he have?
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And to think this man claims to admire Ronald Reagan. He may admire Reagan, but he's starting to sound like Jimmy Carter.
James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web Today reports on two views of Obamamania (you'll probably have to click on "previous day" to see it). Slate's Tim Noah has begun a new feature, "the Obama Messiah Watch,"which will collect examples of fawning coverage of Obama in the media, like this, from the Los Angeles Times:
Better to have a teetotaler or a drinker in the White House?
Here's an idea. Since people hang around waiting to be executed for about 20 years, at great public expense, and we're getting so squeamish that even lethal injections are considered barbaric, why not change the method of execution to secondhand smoke? To hear some people tell it, that would clear them out of death row a lof quicker.
Nah. That really would be "cruel and unusual" punishment.
According to a new poll, 62 percent of Hoosiers would support a $1 increase in the cigarette tax if the money were used for health initiatives (of course, the poll was commissioned by a coalition of anti-smoking groups, so there might be a little "getting the results they wanted to get" going on here). This news must have stunned Gov.
Wouldn't it be funny if they had to cancel the Scooter Libby trial because they couldn't find a jury of his peers?
On the third day of the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the job of finding Washington jurors who do not hold negative views of the George W. Bush administration, its war in Iraq and Vice President Dick Cheney became harder.
Sen. Bayh is back from overseas, and I hope he takes better care of himself than Rep. McHugh:
Nothing but good consequences from bans on public smoking? Let's check in on Australia:
SMOKING bans could spark an increase in drink-driving and underage drinking as traditional pub clientele turn to backyard establishments, a hotelier has warned.
The "progressives" of Madison, Wisc., are toying with the idea of letting public officials, when they take the oath of office, add exceptions for the parts of the state and federal constitutions they don't like:
Sixth District GOP Rep. Mike Pence had an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today, smacking the Bush administration around pretty good for its apparent willingness to go along with a tax increase for Social Security:
