Congress Divided Over Bush War Plan

By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's decision to deploy more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq drew fierce opposition Thursday from congressional Democrats, but the Senate's top Republican threatened a filibuster to block any legislation expressing disapproval of the ( Read more... )

"Think health care is expensive now? Wait 'till it's free." --P.J. O'Rourke

Everyone needs to take half an hour and watch Dead Meat a film about Canada's free health system so often heralded as the pinnacle of western civilization and sensitivity. It isn't very long, take the time and think about the implication of those cheerful socialist ( Read more... )

US Congress first
THE first Muslim elected to Congress was yesterday sworn in as the Democrats took control.

Keith Ellison a Democrat from Minnesota, took his oath holding his left hand on an English translation of the Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson.

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I noticed an interesting little article in the back of the UT this morning.

Britain pays off last of its WWII debt to U.S.
Britain will transfer $84 million to the U.S. Treasury today, the final payment on a debt used to finance the defeat of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in World War II ( Read more... )

Austria's tax dollars...err Euros?... at work

San Diego to Ban Wal-Mart Supercenters

This sort of thing has been tried at least twice before, once in Chicago, which apparently didn't make it, and again in Turlock, this is mentioned in the article above but I can't find any unblogish reference to it.... Wal Mart has a case to overturn the decision in the courts, I doubt they'll actually make ( Read more... )

...but " I told you so".

WASHINGTON - Consumer confidence climbed to a two-month high as a good jobs climate, lower fuel bills and the outcome of the midterm elections brightened peoples’ feelings about the economy and their own financial fortunes.
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It has been a full ten days... and the Democrats are already God's gift to man kind ( Read more... )

I knew I liked Orson Scott Card...

The Only Issue This Election Day

There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that's the War on Terror.

And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.

If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw- ( Read more... )

I am:
94%
Republican."You're the perfect sycophant of the Republican elite. Tom DeLay and Karl Rove would be utterly proud of you."

Are You A Republican?

( in the interest of equal time )

Man... this guy can't win even when he's not talking... I almost wish he had screwed up this bad two years ago so that we had a land slide...

Yesterday, the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts said that he had "botched" a joke... but apparently he's been looking for an opportunity to botch that same joke since 1972

"[H]e opposed the draft ( Read more... )