Archive for June, 2004
Here Are Your Jobs, Nancy Baby
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004The title of this post is what I plan to be saying on Friday when the latest jobs report is released, as long as expectations of most economists, as reported by Reuters, are realized. The Nancy I am referring to is Pelosi. Her remarks following the record economic growth at the end of last year [...]
Sir, I challenge you to a duel . . .
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004Here’s one zinger: “This is typical of small-minded individuals who have to create controversy.” And here’s another: “They are trying to find scapegoats for their incompetency.” Okay, team, pray tell, who is the speaker and about whom are they speaking? Tom Daschle and Bill Frist? No. Al Gore and George Bush?? Nope. Robert Torricelli and [...]
Brokaw Continues Misrepresentation Of 9/11 Commission Report
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004The mainstream media has gone out of its way to misrepresent the findings of the 9/11 commission regarding the link between Saddam and al Queda, and has been taken to task for it by the Vice President and many others, even causing the NYT to offer regrets over their choice of headline to describe the [...]
Saying The Things I Have Only Thought
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004This commentary by Cheryl Rhoads in the Washington Times is tougher on the Reagan children than I ever dreamed of being. I will have to admit that most of the things she writes are things I have at least thought to myself. The baby of the Reagan family apparently can’t stomach folks who wear their [...]
Kurtz Looks at Blog Reviews of Moore Movie
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004Howard Kurtz uses some of the best blogger comments about Fahrenheit 9/11 to put together a pretty interesting review of the movie.
Examining the Rumsfeld visit to Iraq
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004Some of the left’s egregious lies about America’s past relationship with Iraq are just crying out to be debunked. For instance, take the commonly-mentioned Rumsfeld visit to Iraq: Anonymous42321: If recall correclty, Saddam was a friend of the US during Regan’s administrtion and was paid a number of visits by Rumsfeld! The left specializes in [...]
Wictory Wednesday
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004There are only 18 weeks left to the presidential election. If you want to make a difference in the election results, you still can. Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, I ask my readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush 2004 campaign. If you’ve already donated and volunteered for the Bush campaign, then talk [...]
The Associated Press Slips Into Outright Lunacy
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004So, I’m reading, with glee, the web report of my beloved Yankees’ latest demolition of the hated Boston Red Sox. But then I stopped. Stopped dead … in … my … tracks. The Associated Press’ story on the game recounted the highlights and the lowlights. And it also made reference to the fact that Vice [...]
Carter Is Just Pathetic
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004If you didn’t see James Taranto’s Best of the Web yesterday, read it now. The bizarre behavior of Jimmy Carter strikes me as just plain pathetic. Someone needs to tell the man that bashing Bush might make him more popular among today’s “wild-eyed” Democrat crazies, but it will do nothing to revise what will have [...]
Dysfunctional Family
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004Claudia Rossett does a great job in the Wall Street Journal, comparing the nations of the world as organized under the UN to a family. Unfortunately,the family resembles the Sopranos. There’s no question that for Iraq there are rough times ahead, and much yet hangs in balance. Recovering from decades of hideous abuse takes time, [...]
“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004Okay, folks, who uttered the phrase quoted immediately above? Karl Marx? No. Vladimir Lenin?? Um, no. Josef Stalin??? Nope. Mao Zedong???? Uh, nyet. Pol Pot????? Not. Ho Chi Mihn?????? No. Well, who, then? It happened two days ago, Jack, and it was New York Senator Hillary . . . Rodham . . . Clinton. Note: [...]
Thinking Out Loud
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004Sometimes my stream of thoughts becomes so convoluted that I can’t remember how I ever got to the subject I am pondering. Today, however, I can trace the progression of thoughts, but it still seems a little surreal. I spent most of the day at my mom’s house where conversation turned to the helicopters continuously [...]
Even More Moore
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004Instapundit reports this new book about Michael Moore is #20 at Amazon.com. It will be interesting to see how many copies it sells without the benefit of all the publicity the Moore and Franken books get at Today, GMA, Larry King, etc. Can any of Polipundit’s readers tell me which places of purchase get counted [...]
The Supreme Court’s Judicial Tyranny
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004One reason to hate the end of June: I’ve come to loathe late June — a time which signals the end of the Supreme Court’s term — for it is at this time that we as a nation are forced to learn of the “growth” of certain members of the bench. There are many hypothesized [...]
The Media’s “Economic Angst” Index Continues to Rise
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004Mainstream Americans are so livid at George Bush over his domestic and especially his foreign policies, so nervous about “record high” gas prices, and so skittish about the “jobless recovery,” that . . . THAT . . . THAT!!!. . . that the Conference Board’s closely-watched Index of Consumer Confidence rose sharply in June, and [...]