PBS has a short profile of masturbatory conservative yammerer William F. Buckley, who is in the process of retiring from a long career in various public media. Both Buckley and his son Christopher (in a tribute) proclaimed the victory of the conservative movement: CB: [U]ltimately, as intellectual godfather to the movement that produced the election [...]
Archive for September 10th, 2004
Conservative Progress: Long May It Continue
Posted in Culture, Politics on September 10, 2004 | 12 Comments »
CIA Held More "Ghost" Prisoners
Posted in Iraq on September 10, 2004 | 5 Comments »
The CIA kept many more prisoners than previously thought without records: Army jailers in Iraq, acting at the Central Intelligence Agency’s request, kept dozens of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and other detention facilities off official rosters to hide them from Red Cross inspectors, two senior Army generals said Thursday. The total is far more [...]
The Ebay Economy?
Posted in Politics on September 10, 2004 | 5 Comments »
This is weird: Indicators measure the nations unemployment rate, consumer spending and other economic milestones, but Vice President Dick Cheney says it misses the hundreds of thousands who make money selling on eBay. . Thats a source that didnt even exist 10 years ago, Cheney told an audience in Cincinnati on Thursday. Four hundred thousand [...]
Good News on Overtime Rules
Posted in Politics on September 10, 2004 | Comments Off
Washington > House Votes to Block Administration’s Rules on Overtime” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/politics/10cong.html”>The House voted to block the changes the Bush Administration wanted. 22 Republicans joined with the Democrats to block the changes and save the overtime pay of literally millions of workers: The measure approved in the House on Thursday would retain the new protection for [...]
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