Cliff May has some thoughts.
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What A Shocker
Supply-side economics works:
The country was facing the largest projected deficit in history when Bush promised to halve it as a percentage of GDP by 2009. Due to high wartime spending and the residual effects of the 2000
Great PR
If this is true, that’s the ultimate product placement–for something that doesn’t yet exist. (Not implying that Mark isn’t right–just that I didn’t follow the link, because I didn’t want to see the spoilers.)
Protecting Us From Ourselves
Thomas James (and Dr. Sanity) says that the media are treating the American public like children. Or irascible excitable red-state rednecks. Or perhaps they don’t make a distinction. Of course, the funny thing is that the Canadian press is doing the same to the Canadian people.
[Update on Monday evening]
Alan K. Henderson has further thoughts.
Dems Deride, Truth Dies
John Fund writes about the Democrats’ dilemma in their continuing attempts to rewrite history.
Most people, including me, are willing to discuss and debate the wisdom of both past and current policy in Iraq. But it’s not possible to debate seriously people who continue to insist that Bush lied, and that it was about oil, or avenging his daddy, or because he’s a bloodthirsty warmonger. And people who continue to spout such nonsense are (thankfully) going to continue to lose at the polls, regardless of how unhappy the American people are with the Iraq situation. Which is better news for the Republicans than they deserve.
[Update a few minutes later]
I should add that I actually agree with the Democrats that the administration has been incompetent in the war. The problem is that in this (as on almost all issues), the Dems would be even worse (in many cases, not even being willing to actually wage it). As I’ve said on numerous occasions, I wish that we’d had better choices in 2004.
Technical Difficulties
I got in all right last night, but my laptop’s hard drive is dying (wish I’d known that before I left–I would have brought my other one). I’m posting this from work, but won’t be able to do much of that, so posting may be light this week, until I get back to Florida Friday night.
Intermission
Back to LA for another week. I may check in tonight.
Strange Comparison
Just listening to Fox News Sunday, and Juan Williams is wondering why William Jefferson (you know, the guy who had ninety grand in his freezer?) lost his committee post when other Democrats weren’t treated similarly. He used as an example Gary Condit (remember him?–Just before September 11th?), who was investigated for months but was never punished by the party (though he did lose his primary in the next election, IIRC).
I wish that Brit Hume or Bill Kristol had asked Juan what he thought would have happened had Chandra Levy’s body been found in Condit’s freezer.
Busy
The carpenters are here today with some final cabinet installation issues, and the pool pump died, so I’ve been pulling the old one, finding a new one, and replacing it, before the summer mustard algae in south Florida crawls over the coping, creeps into our bedroom and smothers us in our slumber.
Europe Finally Waking Up?
Someone over there has been noticing the new space industry:
New commercial markets, among them space tourism, have a great potential to become major drivers in space technology development. This study aims at the assessment of the feasibility of European initiatives to address these new markets through the development of crewed space vehicles.
The more the merrier, but given Airbus’ problems and the general bureaucratic issues over there (even worse than NASA, if that can be believed), I’m not as encouraged as some might be. In addition, they’ve even more of a nanny-state mentality than we do here, and they’ll have trouble getting the kind of flexible regulatory environment with regard to passenger safety that we just won from the FAA. Not to mention the fact that they don’t have any natural flight test sites there–they’ll have to go to Africa, Asia or the Middle East to find sufficiently large unpopulated areas.