August 06, 2003
Some Quick Hits
The Likely Story has a couple of posts up about some uneasy signs on the economy. It looks like the rising interest rates could be saying that the US creditors are starting to decide they don't like the odds.
What is American Justice? A Voice Unheard asks whether Bush's frontier justice has replaced our constitutional rule of law when determining what is justice.
Have our politics gotten too extreme? It certainly seems that way when one sees the use of political instruments such as the Republican redistricting power play, the recall movement in California and the calculated use of the equivalent of the unmanned Predator to try to dislodge Colin Powell and his State Department.
[Aside - Re: the recent announcement that Powell was leaving the administration. I believe this the most recent round in the Gingrich war against the State Department. But I've not seen confirmation that others support this theory yet.]
Digby comes out for restoring traditional marriage including the grand old tradition of droigt de seigneur. I can see his logic.
Emma at Notes for the Atrocities provides a comparison of GWB's record with that of Roosevelt.
Does Ashcroft get your goat? Join some good company with Big Air Fred at Rantavation who fisks Ashcroft's recent defense of the Patriot Act.
Posted by Mary at August 6, 2003 03:57 AM | TrackBackGee ... can I put forward another suggestion? I don't know quite how this one will pan out, but it might prove an interesting source. It's a blog written by a San Francisco Chronicle reporter on assignment in Iraq.
Now there are admittedly getting to be a lot of bloggers from Iraq these days. But this reporter's assignment is a little different ...
"David Baker, a business reporter for The Chronicle, is on assignment in Iraq and Kuwait, covering the reconstruction efforts of Bechtel Corp. as well as humanitarian aid organizations in the region. He will also give us a taste of what it's like on the (searing hot) sands of Iraq in a semi-regular Internet notebook."
Like I said, this could be a puff job. But we'll see. If nothing else, scroll down to his very first entry where he describes surviving a violent corkscrew landing at Baghdad airport in a miltary transport. I almost ran for an air sickness bag ...
Posted by: Pat K., California on August 6, 2003 09:16 PM