His approval ratings are at an all-time low: The poll found that if the presidential election due in November was held today, 46 percent of Americans would vote for Democrat John Kerry and 44 percent would vote for Bush — if independent Ralph Nader stayed out of the race. The poll, with a sampling error [...]
Archive for April, 2004
More Bad News for Bush
Posted in Iraq, Politics on April 29, 2004 | 1 Comment »
US to give Fallujah to Ex Saddam Commander
Posted in Iraq on April 29, 2004 | 4 Comments »
This comes very close to a complete and total defeat for the United States: U.S. Marines announced Thursday an agreement to end a bloody, nearly four-week-old siege of Fallujah, saying American forces will pull back and allow an all-Iraqi force commanded by a former Saddam Hussein-regime general to take over security. This is probably the [...]
SEIU: Wal-Martization Fight
Posted in Economics on April 29, 2004 |
I’ll have more on this later, but the SEIU discussion about Wal-Mart is continuing at their site: Part One and Nathan Newman has also contributed
The Truth About 9/11
Posted in Satire, Terrorism on April 28, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Finally, some straight answers about why September 11th couldn’t have been prevented with reasonable measures. Hee!
Living in a Fantasy Land
Posted in Politics on April 28, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Kash points out that Senate Republicans are apparently really dumb: Huh, who would have imagined that gas prices were so high in recent months simply because of those pernicious environmental regulations? Actually, let me propose an alternate hypothesis: gas prices have been rising because crude oil prices have been rising. It sounds crazy, I know. [...]
Ah, leadership
Posted in Politics on April 28, 2004 |
the road to surfdom has the run down on how the President is going to bravely run away … er face the questioning of the 9/11 Commission: Of course, we’ll never know because those brave democrats in the White House are doing their best to keep us in the dark: The administration also said there [...]
Specter wins
Posted in Politics on April 28, 2004 | 1 Comment »
A very narrow victory, but a victory nonetheless. This is good for Bush and Sanatorium, both of whom went to bat for Specter. It also suggests that Bush’s GOTV worked pretty well, although the turnout was low. This is a defeat for the most conservative wing of the Republican party. This is probably a victory [...]
US Bombing Fallujah
Posted in Iraq on April 28, 2004 | 1 Comment »
This cannot be good: The boom of multiple explosions and the roar of a fighter jet shook the embattled city of Fallujah again Wednesday as U.S. forces responded from the air for a second consecutive day to attacks by insurgents. Bombings are still, despite all of the improvements in smart technology, blunt weapons. In a [...]
Report: TN Taxes are Regressive
Posted in Economics, Libertarian Problem Solving, Politics on April 27, 2004 | 5 Comments »
According to a state report, Tennessee has a “regressive” tax that “places a disproportionate burden on poor and low-income Tennesseans.” A state report finds that four in ten Tennessee children live in poverty or are children of the “working poor.” The state comptroller’s audit says the children can fall through an inadequate “safety net.” The [...]
Bush and Science
Posted in Politics, Science on April 27, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Never the twain shall meet: In February [Bush's] White House received failing marks in a statement signed by 62 leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, 19 recipients of the National Medal of Science, and advisers to the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations. It begins, “Successful application of science has played a large part in the policies [...]
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