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‘KNOCK IT OFF,’ RICE TELLS SYRIA ON MEDDLING:
“There is a context and an atmosphere of instability” in Lebanon, she told reporters on her plane as she wrapped up a four-day trip in the Middle East. “Syria’s activities are part of that context and a part of that atmosphere, and they need to knock it off.”
Condi for President! That’s the kind of straight talk that has served many Presidents well in their election campaigns.
DEMS NO LONGER THE PARTY OF THE MIDDLE CLASS:
A centrist group of Democrats called Third Way recently issued a report explaining the Democrats’ 2004 election debacle. It concluded that voters with incomes between $30,000 and $75,000 a year, or almost half the electorate, delivered “healthy victories” for President Bush and Republicans in Congress. The report concludes: “Rather than being the party of the middle class, Democrats face a huge crisis with middle-income voters.”
Why is that? One reason is that the party of FDR and JFK no longer seems to have a moderate wing; they have become doughnut Democrats with no middle. This point is best exemplified by the utter collapse of Democrats in the South.
The Big Picture is honored to have been added recently to the blogrolls of these weblogs:
Code Blue Blog
Cynicistan
Dakota Pundit
Idle Mendacity
PoliBlog
To the owners of these sites: thank you!
I got a phone call the other day trying to sell me something. I almost never buy anything pitched to me over the phone, but this time I did. It was one of my credit card companies, selling a new service, in which they keep an eye on my credit reports every day, and if something happens, like somebody buys a house, or opens a new bank account—or does any of the things that are usually done with stolen credit info by identity thieves—they will notify me immediately.
This sounds like a really good approach. This could keep damage from identity theft to a minimum, and in many cases might permit you to alert the people involved soon enough to prevent damage to your credit.
They also estimate the cost of being Batman.
THE NUMBER OF CONSUMERS DOWNLOADING MUSIC LEGALLY, IS ABOUT TO SURPASS THE NUMBER DOWNLOADING IT ILLEGALLY.
WHOA: COMMON VIRUS KILLS CANCER, STUDY FINDS.
BETA-TEST THE NEW FREE AOL PORTAL.
Deroy Murdock quotes many Dems demanding to pay higher taxes, and proposes an official means for them to do so: the Higher-Rate Optional Tax.
DONALD LUSKIN HAS A HILARIOUS FISKING OF A PAUL KRUGMAN OP-ED PIECE:
In his Friday column, Krugman attempts to spit out the salacious details of scandals involving Republican politicians in Ohio. But what Krugman doesn’t seem to know is that many of the politicians he’s talking about are Democrats! And because the Times does no fact-checking of its op-ed columns, his absurd blunders now live forever in the “newspaper of record.”
“Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line,” the Illinois Democrat said. “To them I extend my heartfelt apologies.”
He’s not saying he was wrong. He’s apologizing for having offended people by making a statement which he still represents as being the truth. And he doesn’t even apologize to everybody—only to those who were offended. That’s pathetic. Along the lines of what Hugh Hewitt said on the radio a few moments ago: if he’d apologized for giving those who are making war on America the recruiting tool they’ve been using, for the past week, to bring in people who want to kill Americans, that would begin to approach a real apology.
Until Durbin admits that what he said wasn’t true, every time he refers to it he all but reiterates the original statement.
Great posts from around the blogosphere.
On a lighter note:
Some states have non-profit organizations that do recycling of used computers. A list of them is at the Free Geek web site.
Portland, Oregon residents: Do 24 hours of work—get a free refurbished computer!
THANK GOD NASA IS PROTECTING US AGAINST ADS IN SPACE. Can you imagine looking up to see the night stars, and seeing some brand advertising floating around? Nasa is making sure it doesn’t happen. Oddly, the author of the linked Newsweek story, tries to sell people on the notion that ads in space would be a good thing. No doubt, if they were permitted, the same author would write a story slamming Nasa for letting it happen.
SECOND OPINION: TERRI WAS AWARE, SAYS BRAIN DOC.
