A Senate committee approved a plan Tuesday to increase fuel efficiency standards to an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020 in a move closely watched by automakers and environmental groups.
Senate panel votes to boost fuel economy levels. By Ken Thomas, Associated Press
You know what I thought when I first saw this headline?
It’s about time.
You know what I thought after I read the…
The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms.
NRA: Don’t ban gun sales to terror suspects – U.S. Security – MSNBC.com
This could be my favorite news story of the week. It makes me wonder why the NRA is still so influential. How can a group with this little…
In only the second veto of his presidency, Bush rejected legislation pushed by Democratic leaders that would require the first U.S. combat troops to be withdrawn by Oct. 1 with a goal of a complete pullout six months later. “This is a prescription for chaos and confusion and we must not impose it on our troops,” Bush said in a nationally broadcast statement from the White House.
Bush…
**Note: although money is discussed in this entry, it’s not primarily about money. There are few things in this world that I need which I don’t already have. By that measure I feel very fortunate.
Chances are you don’t know me, but because of today’s political climate I’ll bet I could tell you one thing about me and you’d instantly think you did.
I work for the…
U.S. aid official linked to call-girl ring resigns | Reuters
Everyone loves the story of a political hypocrite being outed. Randal Tobias worked for the Department of State under the Bush administration and was apparently an advocate for abstinence programs abroad. Now there’s news he has resigned, in light of his involvement with an infamous Washington escort service.
Ah… but maybe…
I don’t know why, but one of the more suprising conclusions drawn from the shootings in Virginia (to me) is that there aren’t enough guns. The thought is that if there were just a couple students packing heat in school, they could have fought back. This shouldn’t have been a suprise… it’s a natural extention from the NRA’s widely repeated assertion that if guns…
This week my stroll through the conservative blogosphere has brought me to several criticisms of Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader (and a Democrat from Nevada). If you’ve been paying attention, the big hub-bub this week has been Reid’s statement that the war in Iraq “is lost.”
David Broder has been held up as an unimpeachable voice of respect in Washington, and his…
Don’t judge me by my results, judge me by my rhetoric…
In an interview last night on PBS, President Bush complained that people who measure progress in Iraq by how many car bombs and suicide attacks occur are giving a “huge victory” to the enemy by making it more difficult for him to promote the war to the American public.
Think Progress » Bush: If You Judge My Iraq Strategy By…
As I’ve said before, I spent the formative years of my political leanings in a hot-bed of liberalism; a university campus. As a junior, I went to my first campaign rally – for Clinton/Gore in the fall of ’92. My first presidential election as an “adult” was that ’92 election. I watched the man I voted for become embroiled in a couple political scandals, most…