Much is being made over the decision of President Bush to testify in front of the 9/11 commission today along side VP Cheney. If the goal of the commission were to get a full and accurate accounting of the events leading up to 9/11, testimony by the President and VP together would certainly offer the commission a more complete picture, since each could prompt the other
GDP growth for the first quarter of 2004 was 4.2 percent. This is the first time since 1994 that the economy has grown by 4 percent or more for three consecutive quarters.
GDP growth over the last three quarters was 5.5 percent, the best in any nine-month period since 1984. GDP growth over the last four quarters was 4.9 percent, the best in any one-year period since 1984.
WELCOME TO BOOMTOWN USA, LAND OF THE MIGHTY TAX CUT!
— PoliPundit
. . . wait until you see the job creation numbers over the next couple of months.
Lost amid today’s media gyrations over the President’s 9/11 testimony and the stellar, but inflationary, macroeconomic growth rate, was the news that initial claims for jobless benefits are falling like a stone.
So, layoffs are going down. And hiring is going up.
Hmm. Even I can figure out where that math is heading.
There are three more job creation release dates between now and the Democratic Convention: the first Friday in May (which covers April’s job numbers); the first Friday in June (for May’s job market); and the first Friday in July. That sound you hear . . . why, it’s the Democratic Party: tearing itself apart at the seams.
P.S. - I suspect the partisan-liberal media will now start thrashing around regarding the re-emergence of inflation in our economy. Don’t believe the hype. About a year ago, we were heading for deflation. And that, believe you me, would have been much, much worse. The fact that we have some inflation brewing means that the Administration and the Federal Reserve have done their jobs. They saved our economy (along with you: our workers, investors, and business owners). And the future looks bright. Long live capitalism!
— Jayson
I really wish I had written this. The writer of this editorial gives excellent, detailed examples of just how much opinion is passed off as news today.
The stories we tell define the nation. Stories poorly told can destroy it…Here
When I was a kid, I read a lot of Communist propaganda. No, not because I loved commies, like liberals do. I read commie propaganda because it’s usually so zealous that it seems like highly entertaining satire.
With the Soviet Union gone, good commie propaganda is much harder to come by. But North Korea’s KCNA news agency has an English-language web site that’s always good for a laugh. Take, for instance, this story:
Korean people’s spirit of guarding the leader with their very lives was fully displayed when there was an unexpected explosion at Ryongchon Railway Station in Ryongchon County, North Phyongan Province, on April 22. Upon hearing the sound of the heavy explosion on their way home for lunch, Choe Yong Il and Jon Tong Sik, workers of the County Procurement Shop, ran back to the shop. They were buried under the collapsing building to die a heroic death when they were trying to come out with portraits of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.When the building of Ryongchon Primary School was destroyed by the violent storm and the classroom on the third floor caught fire, teacher Han Un Suk, 32, also died after bringing portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to a place of safety from the classroom and saving seven pupils.
Teacher Han Jong Suk, 56, also breathed her last with portraits in her bosom.
Principal of the school Choe Pyong Ryop and his son rushed to the accident scene and evacuated materials concerning the revolutionary ideas and immortal exploits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il from the school, wrapped in fire.
Such noble deed was also done by Head of the County Nursery Pak Sun Mi and seven nurses including Jang Yon Hui, Ri Pong Suk and Principal of Ryongchon Middle School Kang Yong Su.
Many people of the county evacuated portraits before searching after their family members or saving their household goods.
– PoliPundit
If it were determined that shortly prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, chemical WMD was transported from Iraq to Syria and later ended up in the hands of al Qaeda, who then attempted to bring it into Jordan for a 9/11 scale terrorist attack, most thinking people would determine that Saddam Hussein had, in fact, posed a threat to the rest of the world. They might even consider it was an imminent threat. Those dots have not yet been connected, but there is a lot of evidence that points to just such a possible scenario.
Today, a Wall Street Journal editorial asks why a story that I provided links to (here and here) in a post last week, has yet to be seriously investigated or even prominently reported by most major news outlets.
Jordanian authorities say that the death toll from a bomb and poison-gas attack they foiled this month could have reached 80,000. We guess the fact that most major media are barely covering this story means WMD isn’t news anymore until there’s a body count.This post provides links to another story about Iraq WMD you won’t see getting widespread media attention this week.Abu Musab al-Zarqawi–the man cited by the Bush Administration as its strongest evidence of prewar links between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, and the current ringleader of anti-coalition terrorism in Iraq–may be behind the plot, which would be al Qaeda’s first ever attempt to use chemical weapons. The targets included the U.S. Embassy in Amman. Yet as of yesterday, most news organizations hadn’t probed the story, if at all, beyond the initial wire-service copy.
Perhaps the problem here is that covering this story might mean acknowledging that Tony Blair and George W. Bush have been exactly right to warn of the confluence of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction…
The provenance of the operation is also of note. The bomb trucks and funds are said to have entered Jordan via Syria. Last fall General James R. Clapper Jr., director of satellite intelligence for the Pentagon, said there had been an unusual amount of traffic–including possibly WMDs–between Iraq and Syria in the lead-up to war.
Do these stories not deserve at least as much attention as the final episode of Friends?
– Lorie Byrd
Doug Bandow, a former Reagan administration official, on the consequences of American foreign policy: Terrorism cannot be treated in isolation from American foreign policy. It’s not that Americans deserved to die, that the blame falls on U.S. policymakers instead of the killers who hijacked and crashed four planes. Rather, terrorism must be understood as an inevitable consequence of global intervention.
Doug Bandow’s position is that other nations ought to set American foreign policy. He describes terrorism as a tool of weak nations, and believes that the US is provoking attacks against itself by taking positions that are contrary to the interests of terror-sponsoring countries. The problem with this approach is that it is an invitation for our enemies to attack us by sponsoring terror groups in order to separate us from our allies.
Doug Bandow’s approach is pretty radical - the American way has always been to respect those who respect us and punish those who attack us. He is proposing that the US abandon its allies to appease its enemies. It is the Cato Institute’s (Bandow’s think tank) penny-wise, pound-foolish approach that has led to China’s ever-expanding push into the South China Sea (through the American abandonment of the Filipino bases in the early 1990’s) and the extinction of the only Christian government in the Arab world in Lebanon. The Cato Institute is misnamed - it wants to bury its head in the sand about the danger from abroad, whereas Cato the Elder pushed for the destruction of Rome’s enemies, the most famous example of which was the leveling of Carthage.
It is time that the US made clear to foreign countries that either directly or indirectly kill Americans that there is a price to be paid for their hostile foreign policy vis-a-vis the US and its allies. This is the point we have attempted to drive home to our enemies via the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is time for them to appease us, and not the other way around.
– Zhang Fei
Much is being made over the decision of President Bush to testify in front ofthe 9/11 commission today along side VP Cheney. If the goal of the commission were to get a full and accurate accounting of the events leading up to 9/11, testimony by the President and VP together would certainly offer the commission a more complete picture, since each could prompt the other
GDP growth for the first quarter of 2004 was 4.2 percent. This is the first time since 1994 that the economy has grown by 4 percent or more for three consecutive quarters.
GDP growth over the last three quarters was 5.5 percent,the best in any nine-month period since 1984. GDP growth over the last four quarters was 4.9 percent, the best in any one-year period since 1984.
WELCOME TO BOOMTOWN USA, LAND OF THE MIGHTY TAX CUT!
— PoliPundit
. . . wait until you see the job creation numbers over the next couple of months.
Lost amid today’s media gyrations over the President’s 9/11 testimony and the stellar, but inflationary, macroeconomic growth rate, was the news that initial claims for jobless benefits are falling like a stone.
So, layoffs are going down. And hiring is going up.
Hmm. Even I can figure out where that math is heading.
There are three more job creation release dates between now and the Democratic Convention: the first Friday in May (which covers April’s job numbers); the first Friday in June (for May’s job market); and the first Friday in July. That sound you hear . . . why, it’s the Democratic Party: tearing itself apart at the seams.
P.S. - I suspect the partisan-liberal media will now start thrashing around regarding the re-emergence of inflation in our economy. Don’t believe the hype. About a year ago, we were heading for deflation. And that, believe you me, would have been much, much worse. The fact that we have some inflation brewing means that the Administration and the Federal Reserve have done their jobs. They saved our economy (along with you: our workers, investors, and business owners). And the future looks bright. Long live capitalism!
— Jayson