Not so Strange Bedfellows Separate
Go over to Skippy’s to read about the divorce of O’reilly and the Orange County Register. This is one of the last papers that would come to mind as editorially opposing the war. But apparently they do.
Yearly Archives: 2003
What are we Fighting For Redux?
When I last visited this subject it was Justice Scalia talking about scaling back individual rights.
Now South Knox Bubba is disturbed by new activity related to the Total Information Act. I think we might want to move a step or two beyond disturbed. Maybe to scared into action while we still have a chance.
Term Limits
Hesiod at Counterspin Central asks why a democratic congressman would introduce a resolution to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Lyrics and more Lyrics
Mike over at Red Letter Day shares the Lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Neighborhood Bully.” This is an excellent song. Mike might also want to check out some other Bob Dylan Material, for instance, from the 1963 Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, “Masters of War” seems particularly relevant to to current times. It begins:
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Go here for the rest.
W: The Friend of Capitalism
Leonard at Unruled quotes a report from Donald Luskin on an meeting Luskin had with W. Luskin tells us that W is ‘…the best friend…’ capitalism ‘… is likely to get nowadays.’
Leonard finds this sad and so do I. Now I don’t know what definition of capitalism these folks are using but I’m pretty sure W does not use the same one I do and I’m a little surprised that Donald Luskin is taken in by this. W ‘built’ most of his wealth on the backs of the local taxpayers who will be paying for the Texas Ranger’s stadium for many years to come. And there is nothing about this that is anywhere close to the free market capitalism I think Luskin would espouse.
If the elimination of the double taxation of dividends (see the Luskin quote above) were part of a cohesive, well documented, long term plan to move us toward a truly capitalist society I might accept his argument. But this is not the case and there is little else, if anything, that W has initiated that suggests tht this is his goal. Nope, I don’t think W is anywhere close to being a friend of capitalism.