Meanwhile, over at Al-Qaeda headquarters:




posted by Quiddity at 12/24/2005 03:48:00 PM

Feds slug state's poor

That was the surprising, large-type headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Daily News this morning. And it goes on to report:

Budget cut aimed at poor, young, old, sick

California's needy families will lose more than $550 million a year under a deficit-reduction bill approved Wednesday by the U.S. Senate, marking the first cuts to welfare, Medicare and other entitlement programs in nearly a decade.

The Daily News is more conservative than the Los Angeles Times and for the most part serves a suburban readership (San Fernando Valley) which in earlier days could be considered "moderate Republican" - a now meaningless term or extinct constituency. That's why the headline was a surprise.

Could it be that the Republicans in Congress will suffer politically for their cuts to programs that serve the "poor, young, old, and sick"? That's not something we expect, but it just might happen.


posted by Quiddity at 12/22/2005 08:18:00 AM

Bill O'Reilly, here's another outfit you might want to tangle with:

Screenshot (partial) showing the Screen Tip.




posted by Quiddity at 12/21/2005 07:50:00 AM

Not a strict constructionist or textualist any more?

Does this mean we really do have a "living constitution" after all?



[First quote in black is genuine.]

Thanks to the folks at Busy,Busy,Busy for the inspiration.


posted by Quiddity at 12/19/2005 07:37:00 PM

Both interpretations are correct:




posted by Quiddity at 12/19/2005 02:11:00 PM

It's not the MSM anymore:

It's the LJM (Liberal Jew Media)

At least it is over at Townhall.com - "When it comes to pushing the ... anti-Christian agenda, you find ... Jewish journalists"     (via Seeing the Forest's blogpost)


posted by Quiddity at 12/19/2005 11:05:00 AM

Why not ask your Saudi friends?

In Bush's press conference today, he made the following remark in support of renewing the Patriot Act:

I mentioned in my radio address -- my live TV radio address -- that there was two killers in San Diego making phone calls prior to the September the 11th attacks. Had this program been in place then, it is more likely we would have been able to catch them. But they're making phone calls from the United States, overseas, talking about -- who knows what they're talking about, but they ended up killing -- being a part of the team that killed 3,000 Americans.

Back in November of 2002 we looked into stories about these guys and diagrammed the connections that allowed them to operate. Turns out that they were funded (by proxy) by the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the US.



Who knows what they're talking about? Ask your friends on Embassy Row.


posted by Quiddity at 12/19/2005 09:55:00 AM

Juan Cole summarizes our view:

[Al-Qaeda's] monstrous "theatrical" terrorism on a large scale has paralyzed the US political and judicial elite in the face of Cheney's and Bush's New American Empire, an Empire in which the US Constitution has been turned into a dead letter.

posted by Quiddity at 12/19/2005 09:30:00 AM

Post Bush Sunday speech headlines:

• USA Today: Don't Give Up
• Daily News (Los Angeles): Don't Give In
• Los Angeles Times: Bush Urges Patience for Iraq Mission
• New York Times(NY & Nat'l editions): Asking Patience, Bush Cites Progress in Iraq

Hardly an enthusiastic response.


posted by Quiddity at 12/19/2005 08:39:00 AM