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Stephen Moore at Cato with a Governors’ Fiscal Policy Report Card.
Our lovely guv, who blew an alleged $2bn surplus in just about two years (in all actuality I doubt the surplus was really ever there), gets a score of 52 and a C ranking. I don’t think I’d grade him that high. Maybe if he sells his, oh, sorry, the state’s, jet airplane.

I’d be more sympathetic to this article if it didn’t come out of a Florida paper, but there’s no question that Kleagle Byrd is and remains the king of pork.
Since I’ve come to believe that NASA is not the way to get us to Mars, I’m less than sympathetic to local (ie self-interested) newspapers bemoaning that a few million got whacked from the billions being poured into the “Space Coast”. Good God, folks, doesn’t Disney make you enough money as it is?
(We who frequent the Gulf Coast rather than the Space Coast just ignore this sort of thing. That money doesn’t tend to percolate over our way.)

From Fox:

WASHINGTON — Critics say President Bush’s seeking the blessing of the United Nations — a “paper tiger” of legendary lethargy and inaction — before moving on Iraq is a waste of time.

It’s rope-a-dope, folks. Bush will end up paying nothing but lip service to the UN. Believe it. This guy does:

Ted Galen Carpenter, a foreign policy analyst with the Cato Institute, points out that while Bush went out of his way to prove his case against Saddam in his September speech at the U.N., he expects that the administration will carry out plans to invade Iraq no matter what the international body, Saddam or Congress has to say about it.
“My guess is the U.N. Security Council will go along with what Bush has proposed,” he said. “But, I think what Bush was saying in his speech was ‘You are either with our policy and can look relevant or you can obstruct our policy and we’ll bypass you and you will look irrelevant.'”

WTF? “Endangered foods“?????
Come on. Come on. Pull the other one. Next you’ll have me believing in global warming or ozone holes or Saddam not having WMD or something equally stupid. Does someone actually make money working for this group? And if so, why?

The embarassment that is Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN) may be on the way out. According to yesterday’s Indianapolis Star, her race with Republican Brose McVey is too close to call (statistical dead heat). Latest poll had Carson 42% to McVey 38%, inside the poll’s 5% margin of error.
The Libertarian candidate polled only 5%, but Libertarians in this state are pretty much an error all to themselves. Some guy named “Undecided” got 14% and another guy named “Other” got 1%. (I’m guessing Mickey Mouse doesn’t poll well here, although by all rights he probably should, as many Hoosiers as hop the ATA 757 bus to Orlando. Have you ever flown on one of these things? Less elbow room than a 737, I swear…but I digress.)
The upsetting part is that Carson usually manages to pull her nuts (well, I speak metaphorically) out of the fire just in time to squeak by. But anyone who advocates daylight savings time ought to be drawn and quartered, not just diselected. (Actually I think McVey advocates it too, but he’s the Republican, so I’ll excuse him until after the election.)

Fred Barnes writes in the Weekly Standard (echoed on Fox in their Views section):

[] Democrats, who angrily insisted that a court should not have decided the 2000 presidential election, are going to court, seeking to have Torricelli’s name erased from the ballot and another name substituted. In its own way, this is as sleazy as the conduct that got Torricelli in trouble in the first place.

I keep hearing muted shouts of “Florida! Florida!”. Kind of like the Union Army shouted “Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!” when they repulsed Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg…

Or rather, the hole in it…is smaller and has split in two.
I’ve been convinced for years that there’s no story here. Nature does things naturally that we puny humans can’t even begin to have any control over. Like Mount Pinatubo and Mount St. Helens between them putting more ozone-destroying pollutants into the air than mankind has managed to do in all of industrial history.

…George Will, that is.

McDermott and Bonior are two specimens of what Lenin, referring to Westerners who denied the existence of Lenin’s police-state terror, called “useful idiots.”

Hee.

At least according to this American Prowler excerpt:

Former President Bill Clinton is at it again with his Hollywood types, but in this latest round there is reason for some Republican concern. Before heading off to Africa with movie stars Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, Clinton stopped in on the set of Terminator 3 to spend some time with future California Republican star Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We were joking that he probably showed up thinking he’d see the naked female Terminator that’s in this movie,” says a cameraman on the film.

I’m afraid that about all I can say about this is to echo J.P. Morgan, who, when informed that Teddy Roosevelt had gone to Africa on safari, famously exclaimed: “I hope the first lion he meets does his duty.”

I always knew liberals were behind the 8 ball, but this site proves it.
Link via a friend of mine who doesn’t blog (and who doesn’t know about my blog, come to think of it).