Matthew Yglesias does not want to pay more to eat and suggests that the recent tariffs imposed on imported Canadian wheat are cut from the same cloth as the the rest of the Bush wealth redistribution program. My non-scientific study of Canadian food prices during a recent weekend trip suggested that restaurant prices are comparable to or a bit less then US restaurant prices. But this is before the exchange rate kicks in.
Kevin at Truck and Barter reminds us that Putin used the I Can Fly trick in his 2000 election campaign. I wonder what else W has learned from the Russians. Oh yes, how to maintain gulags.
NB: Bloggered permalink alert. This reference is to Kevin’s May 2, 2003 post.
Charles Dodson was busy yesterday. He has commentary on Bush’s Lincoln speach, the 2002 stats on worldwide terrorist attacks (down 30%, maybe), and yet another Iraq conspiracy theory: just why did the Republican Guard disappear? These posts appear one after the other in sequence so you get just the top link.