Daily Archives: June 18, 2003

The Economy is Going Again!

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As reported* by Mr. Bush at last nights party the economy is better:

We got the economy going again because we worked with the US Congress to pass historic tax relief not once but twice

I’m sure that all those unemployed folks feel a lot better.

I wonder if as many people believe this already as believe that WMD’s have been found in Iraq?

A third of the American public believes U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. And 22 percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons.

Does he really believe his own words?

*In NPR News this morning. Audio is labeled Bush Launches Re-Election Fundraising Campaign

Eurostrictions

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Here is the new deal: Say something not nice about some public figure; maybe someone who, though without much substance, still likes to bark like Bill O’reilly.

Then, prepare to provide space on your blog for whiny O’reilly to use to respond.

This very scenario is being proposed by the Council of Europe, a quasi-governmental body oft used to test proposals for new EU laws. As you can imagine some folks are not happy with this idea. From Peeve Farm:

And now the EU wants to regulate blogs, guaranteeing any criticized party the right to rebut any such criticism prominently on any such blog or website that issues it.

And from Perry at Samizdata:

People in the US, who take notions of Freedom of Expression and Private Property for granted, will be astonished by the latest steaming pile of wisdom to emerge from the clenched cheeks of our European would-be masters.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to climb right up on the battlements with Perry. Can’t the folks that dream this stuff up just go find a real job?

Update: Perry has more and if you have lots of time den Beste covers this at length.