N. Korea Issue Irks Congress (washingtonpost.com) This is unconscionable: The White House withheld North Korea’s admission about a nuclear weapons program from key Democrats until after Congress had passed its resolution authorizing war with Iraq, prompting complaints on Capitol Hill that the administration has let politics influence its conduct of foreign affairs. Several senators said [...]
Archive for October 18th, 2002
Bush did not tell Democrats about North Korean Nuclear Admissions
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Jeralyn Merrit of Talk Left not only has a great name, and not only has a great blog, but is also writing Altercation today while Eric is off slacking taking a hard earned vacation.
Glen Reynolds is half right on felons voting
Posted in Politics on October 18, 2002 | Comments Off
Prof. Reynolds (InstaPundit) seems to be arguing that ex-felons should not be allowed to vote I DISAGREE with the assumption behind the campaign to restore felons’ right to vote. I think the real problem is that there are too many felonies. First, let me say that I think the Professor is absolutely correct when he [...]
Blog roll problems
Posted in General on October 18, 2002 | Comments Off
As one of my emailers point out, the blogroll links all linked back to this site. Simply put, everyone on the list had gotten so behind on their monthly fees that I felt I had no choice but to terminate service. Well, no, not really, but that is less embarrassing than admitting that my spiffy [...]
Josh MArshall gets to the bottom of the S.D. "voter fraud"
Posted in Politics on October 18, 2002 | Comments Off
Via Atrios: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall Turns out that the reports on the “story” have some intereting ties to John Thune, and that, well, it appears that the a large piece of the story was just, well, made up. Where did Shelley Keohane get the documents which helped her put together the [...]
Why the delay?
Posted in General on October 18, 2002 | Comments Off
UPDATE: Hugh from my comments posted something that made me rethink the wording of this post. The original wording, after I looked at it through the prism of his comment, appeared to say that Bush did not tell Congress at all. That is not true, and I apologize for the confusion. It was an error [...]
Pakistan provide assistance to N. Korean nuclear program
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U.S. Says Pakistan Gave Technology to North Korea The equipment, which may include gas centrifuges used to create weapons-grade uranium, appears to have been part of a barter deal beginning in the late 1990′s in which North Korea supplied Pakistan with missiles it could use to counter India’s nuclear arsenal, the officials said. “What you [...]
Don't irritate the Power Company!
Posted in General on October 18, 2002 | Comments Off
Newsday.com – LI man arraigned after mailing protest with utility bill Because the police will through you in jail: A shopkeeper pleaded innocent to harassment Thursday after stuffing his payment into an envelope along with Long Island Power Authority newspaper ads on which he wrote “Stop wasting our money!” The mailroom panicked: Bill processors at [...]
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