Economy Solid, And Growing, Say Experts

Money lines in the (Reuters) story:

The U.S. jobs market is showing signs of improvement and inflation remains low in the economy outside the energy sector, government reports on Thursday said.

The number of Americans filing an initial claim for

Annie says, just today:

“There is a fundamental difference between taking any drug – legal, illegal, prescription, protected by the 21st Amendment or banned by Michael Bloomberg – for kicks and taking a painkiller for pain. There is a difference

There’s been much said, even in this space, as regards how the position of the left has shifted as regards our actions in Iraq. I’ve devoted megabytes to the topic here, in the weekly BITs and in Usenet. Sullivan provides

Kevin McCullough has isued a partial retraction on his comments on Ed Asner, posted in this spoace a couple days ago.

However, a lot of people are taking this with more weight than needs be, I think. There’s still the

…. before we see the Cubbies get this close.

Geeeeezzzz… there’s that word again… not heard since Ultra-Leftist Mario Cuomo found himself on the losing end of a govenor’s race up here in NY, and was forced to carry Bill Clinton’s fetid water for him….. “Gravitas”. It’s interesting that

Interesting bit by Jill Stewart today, as regards the actions and motivations, and frankly, the bias, in the recent elections in California.

Money lines:

“It was visceral, and he made it clear he wanted something bad on Schwarzenegger and he

Three more dead on the Gaza strip.
When does the west learn that there are some people you simply do not negotiate with?

Michelle Malkin has an interesting column in TownHall this morning. Hers usually are, of course, but this one extends a discussion I’d started about liberals and racism…. their own, that is.

“On Oct. 12, Times editorial writer Adam Cohen penned

Boortz points out this morning that for all the whining you’re hearing about the debt being because of the tax breaks last year…. the so-called “tax breaks for the rich’…. you remember those…. tax revenue is actually UP.

Says he,

According to reports I’m seeing, the UN Security Council on unanimously passed a resolution expanding the mandate of international peacekeepers in Afghanistan outside the capital Kabul, yesterday.

The measure, which passed 15-0 with no abstentions, clears the way for the

FOX News Sunday
October 12, 2003

Transcript: Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

TONY SNOW, FOX NEWS: One year after the Senate authorized the use of force against Iraq, some politicians are beginning to second-guess the war and criticize its aftermath.

Joining

Note the date, here:

Statement of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV
on the Senate Floor
On the Iraq Resolution

October 10, 2002

The global community — in the form of the United Nations — has declared repeatedly, through multiple resolutions,

Let’s see… the left is very upset at Pat Robertson talking euphemisticly about bombing the State Dept, (because it would be a terrorist act, the loss of life and so on)…..

….and yet but the left doesn’t seem to have

Valerie Plame, wife of Leakgate accuser Joseph Wilson, was outed as a CIA agent at least nine years before conservative columnist Robert Novak supposedly blew her cover three months ago in his column.

“The C.I.A. suspected that Aldrich Ames had