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Entries for September, 2005

Bill Bennett: “[Y]ou could abort every black ba … [Media Matters]

Wow, this is one heck of a misunderstanding of a study. Especially coming from the former Secretary of Education. Freakonomics clearly explains that abortion can be correlated with future crime rates based on the fact that most women who choose to have an abortion do so because they’ve decided they’re not emotionally or financially capable [...]

Not about oil?

It’s hard to follow the logic of the letter to the editor posted below. The reason gasoline isn’t cheaper is because: 1. We’re too incompetent to get Iraq’s oil production up to a normal capacity. 2. Bush has put no pressure on his friends in Saudi Arabia to increase production. In fact, he waived sactions [...]

Bashing Clinton’s response to flood victims?

Most people realize there is a certain amount of photo-opping involved in being president. That should go without saying. What really matters is the action rather than the words or photos, right? That being the case, I could care less if Clinton played Hearts while flying over a tornado-ravaged area of Florida. I could also [...]

John Hinderaker lies about Presidential courtesies. Try Google, John.

John Hinderaker on Powerline appears outraged by recent statements former President Clinton made about the current administration on last Sunday’s morning talk shows. For some odd reason, hearing some critical analysis of the current administration out of the mouth of the president who oversaw an amazing eight years of piece and prosperity is almost too [...]

Causes of the Great Depression: For Bob Davis

AM1500′s Bob Davis claimed there were only two prevailizng theories on the cause of the Great Depression on his radio show this morning. However, as Wikipedia’s page on this topic shows, that’s not really the case. An more importantly, the theory help by FDR that was the basis for his recovery plan (which worked) is [...]

His client’s lawyer

Bret Thiele nails it in his take on Roberts’ work for President Reagan: His client’s lawyer Neither the Senate nor the American public should let the Bush administration and Supreme Court chief justice nominee John Roberts get away with their oft-repeated talking point that Roberts did not profess far-right views during his tenure in the [...]

  
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