Asbestos Bid From Specter Draws Concern, Discussion

WASHINGTONReuters– Republicans on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee plan to meet privately on Thursday to gauge support for their chairman’s embattled proposal to create a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund, a key lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Chairman Arlen

So says Chris Field at Human Events.

Linkletter recently appeared on Cavuto’s show on Fox, where he made the comments. (transcript)
Linkletter is right, of course. But what’s amazing is that he’s willing to go toe to toe with these

I don’t make a habit of linking the NYT for several reasons… Among them, their editorial policy, the biased crap that laughingly passes for news, and the abysmal site registration system.

But today they toss up a free link on

Scott Fybush, over at NorthEast Radio Watch notes:

WQHT (97.1) is bringing back its “Miss Jones” morning show on Wednesday, minus producer Rick Del Gado and cast member Todd Lynn, as it attempts to address the controversy over the “We

Man Without Qualities hasn’t posted since 12/12/04. I must admit being a little bummed about that. I’ve rather enjoyed his blog.

Anyone got any info?

If you caught my mumbling the other day about the pic of the supposed captured soldier in Iraq, The SITE Institute website has something you want to see.

The Trunk from Powerline was on O’Rieley last night.Johnny Dollar has the transcript if you missed it.  The Money clip:

JOHNSON: This is unbelievable. He cited an online publication that he as President of a foundation supports, called Grist.

John at Dummocrats notes the increasing amount of traffic, and speculation of Justice Rehnquist as ‘Deep Throat” and says:

“It’s a little disturbing, especially coming from a media that’s studiously ignoring a big, fat, juicy Eason Jordan story.”

Well, of

Gallup passes a long a report that the usual suspects won’t be able to explain away. It’ll be fun watching them go into denial, though.

Wright This Way has apparently way too much money and time on his hands. He gets 4 Ipods and arranges them into a RAID array.

Sheesh.

And while we’re on the subject of MP3’s why has nobody come up with

Billy Beck, last October described the scene….

…during the recent island excursion, I happened to spend a few minutes in the atrium of Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport. (Oh wait… it’s now “Hartsfield-Race-Grifter-Maynard-Jackson International Airport”. I almost forgot.) Sitting there,

Slashdot notes

“Basically, if you use Firefox today, you’re not susceptible to any spyware, other than what you download when you’re on Kazaa…The spyware writers target mostly Explorer users because that’s the most fertile feeding ground for piranha-like (spyware) attacks.

Glenn links to a bit in the Rocky Mountain News by University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos who says in part:

To the extent that Churchill was hired because he claimed to be a Native American, he would seem

McPhillips and Beck are commenting about Imus on his new set.

I’ll add my two cents, which includes the reference to 15 years of radio work… 10 of it in morning drive.

Their comments are valid; Imus is out of

I’ve just started playing with Bloglines as a way to keep up with a large number of feeds at once. Napsterization now reports that Bloglines has been snapped up by Jeeves.  This marks THE entry into blogdom for Jeeves.

Interesting.