Monthly Archives: May 2005 - Page 2

Taking Another Look at Dead Prisoners

Posted by Astro on 5/27/2005 2 comments

From Strategy Page: Not all prisoner deaths are the same, but you’d never know this from what you read in the news. Recent reports on deaths of prisoners in U.S. custody will give people the wrong impression about the number …

Stopping Terrorism Using Afghan Rules

Posted by Astro on 5/27/2005 3 comments

From Strategy Page: In Afghanistan, when you fight terrorists, you often do it by local rules. Case in point is how you get local villagers to identify who has been firing rockets at Bagram air base. This huge base is …

4th Down For Sports Welfare

Posted by Astro on 5/27/2005 Comments Off

From Reason: When Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones asked Arlington, Texas, voters to pay for a fancy new stadium last November, he did not call the classic plays from the sports welfare handbook. He could not say that America’s Team …

Hillary Continues to Build Supprt for 2008

Posted by Astro on 5/27/2005 13 comments

From USA Today: For the first time, a majority of Americans say they are likely to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president in 2008, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday. The survey …

Filibuster Rules: Then & Now

Posted by Pam on 5/27/2005 2 comments

by Sean Rushton Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D., Conn.) on Wednesday held a press conference to criticize Republican efforts to restore Senate tradition to the judicial confirmation process. But another proposal regarding Senate rules somehow escaped his ire, and has received …

Are You Diverse Enough for a raise?

Posted by Pam on 5/27/2005 Comments Off

PORTLAND, Ore. ” A push for more diversity is causing a stir at the University of Oregon. Department heads across campus have castigated an early draft of a five-year plan, which would tie raises and promotions to “cultural competency” ” …

WTO Clears Iran to Start Membership Talks

Posted by Pam on 5/26/2005 3 comments

WTO Clears Iran for Talks

Utah Stands Up for Education

Posted by Astro on 5/26/2005 36 comments

From Reason: On Monday, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. fired the first shot in what may become a national rebellion against the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Resisting intense veto pressure from President Bush and federal regulators, Huntsman signed …

State Greed at an All Time High

Posted by Astro on 5/26/2005 3 comments

From USA Today: State government revenues are soaring again, ending a period of budget shortfalls and prompting proposals for tax cuts and new spending initiatives for the first time since 2000. Tax collections rose to a record $600 billion in …

President Pledges Palestinian Payoff

Posted by Astro on 5/26/2005 7 comments

From USA Today:
Opening the White House to a Palestinian leader for the first time since 2001, President Bush offered words of support and pledges of aid as he met Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

In his first meeting here since he was elected in January to succeed Yasser Arafat, Abbas sought assurances from Bush that Israel’s withdrawal this summer from Gaza and parts of the West Bank will lead directly to resumption of the internationally endorsed “road map” peace plan and not mark the end of the road for an independent Palestine.

Bush said the White House would move to provide $50 million directly to the Palestinian Authority for housing and infrastructure in Gaza. That move is likely to be controversial because of past concerns of corruption in the authority’s governing structure. Congress has modified previous aid packages to prevent direct aid to the authority…

CBS Poll

Posted by Reilly on 5/25/2005 21 comments

CBS Poll: Bush Out Of Touch Four months into his second term, President Bush is increasingly viewed as being out of touch with the American people, according to a CBS News poll. Six in ten Americans say the president does …

‘For Love & Country’

Posted by Reilly on 5/25/2005 Comments Off

War Is No Skinned Knee Two months ago, my husband read our children a bedtime story until the tears in his eyes blurred the page. My daughter took the book from him. “Daddy, I’ll finish it for you,” 7-year-old Sophie …

Senate Confirms Owen

Posted by Pam on 5/25/2005 13 comments

WASHINGTON ” The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Priscilla Owen (search) as a federal judge, ending a four-year effort by Democrats to derail one of President Bush’s prime judicial nominees. The vote was 56-43 in favor of sending Owen to the …

Senate appears poised to back Bolton nomination

Posted by Pam on 5/25/2005 4 comments

debate gets under way on the Senate floor over John Bolton’s nomination, it looks increasingly like Republicans will have enough votes to confirm him as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, according to numerous Republican and Democratic staffers …

FBI records: Detainees allege Quran abuse

Posted by Pam on 5/25/2005 171 comments

ACLU releases hundreds of documents obtained in lawsuit

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