For those of us who have held up the European methods as the pinnacle of correctness and the model of the way we should be doing things, may I present: German welfare reform! :::::::: A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her [...]
More Good News From Iraq from the man who’s kept us highly informed, Arthur Chrenkoff. This one’s a biggee, by the way. And it opens with the good news not even the media could ignore this time: :::::::: It happened. And they did it. In scenes unimaginable only two years ago – and scorned as [...]
Bloomberg reports that George Soros, the billionaire who put millions into the elections over the past year or so in an explicitly-declared effort to see that George Bush wasn’t re-elected, thinks Kerry was a flawed candidate who, “did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative,” to President Bush. No kidding. Emphasis on the credible [...]
I actually saw this thread yesterday but just didn’t have the gumption left to post on it at the time. In preparing to write about it this morning, I note that the Powerline boys have beaten me to the punch. I have no problem with that, so here’s their post. The quote that started it [...]
I was going to post on this a couple of days ago but events overtook me on it. I’d like to revisit it. In the middle of this past week as I was driving to work, the pre-election violence in Iraq was being covered on the radio station I listen to, WTOP in DC. The [...]
The polls in Iraq are closed now and the estimate of the voter turnout is at 72% of eligible voters. If that estimate bears out, it’s a hugely successful effort. Compare that figure to the US turnout in the 2004 elections which was just a hair over 60%. The participation by the Iraqi citizens is [...]
I wish the Iraqis all the best as they open their polls and, for the first time in decades, take the reigns of their own destiny in hand. Mohammed over at Iraq the Model has some excited and encouraging words up. Ali at Free Iraqi has two posts that are also encouraging. I look very [...]
As I mentioned here in the last day or so, I had wanted to address something brought up in a comment to one of my posts and I didn’t have the chance this week to write about it thoughtfully. Time is permitting, finally, and I wanted to get on with it. OK, the post in [...]
I’m not getting through to Powerline this morning. The Internet pointer that directs people to their blog site isn’t showing the correct info as of a couple of minutes ago. (Techies: the DNS query fails. Attempts to browse there take you to a default page at their registrar, Enom Inc. Still pursuing…) Update: They’re back [...]
If an elected official, after being elected to his position, acts in a manner inconsistent with the desires of his constituency is it OK for that constituency to seek his recall from office in accordance with the law? I would submit that the answer “yes” should be considered axiom. In fact, it’s the very flower [...]
