Always RightDiscussing political, legal, and social issues"Phil: The Monster Who Sometimes Likes to Eat a Cookie"- April 24, 2005 Jonah Goldberg notes that the Children's Television Workshop and PBS have announced that the Cookie Monster's "not a Cookie Monster at all. In the interests of teaching kids not to be gluttons, CTW has transformed Cookie Monster into just another...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/phil_the_monste.html WOW!!- April 22, 2005 The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved $81 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in a spending bill that would push the total cost of combat and reconstruction past $300 billion. I guess all I can say is WOW -...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/wow.html "Whatever our fate tomorrow, will be your fate the day after tomorrow"- April 21, 2005 What a load of crap!(sub. req'd) This week's issue of TIME features an article by Madeleine Nash describing the "incontrovertible evidence that temperatures are rising" and what is in store for us all. Ms. Nash is a hack. Who does...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/whatever_our_fa.html Those crazy Scandinavians...- April 18, 2005 Today's NYT included an article in the Week in Review section noting the prevailing Scandinavian wisdom that they are "incomparably affluent, with all their needs met by an efficient welfare state." The lands of Volvos, IKEA, and rampant socialism are...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/those_crazy_sca.html An interesting OpEd- April 13, 2005 David Ignatius has written a very intriguing oped in today's WaPo noting the similarities between Democratic overreaching in years past and today's Republican lapses in judgment (See, e.g., FristDeLay & company in the Schiavo saga; DeLay and his ethics problems,...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/an_interesting_.html Does it ever end- April 12, 2005 Cherokee County, Georgia has taken $15 million from "special purpose local option sales taxes that had been earmarked for other projects, such as a new county administration building and parking deck and a proposed conference center" and diverted it to...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/does_it_ever_en.html What a crybaby...- April 12, 2005 Hey, John "F." Kerry - stop whining. You lost fair and square. Here is a sample: "Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated. Leaflets are handed out saying...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/what_a_crybaby.html "New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds"- April 12, 2005 I thought this was an interesting article in today's NYT. The Library is set to sell 19 works of art expected to garner anywhere between $50 and $75 million. Importantly, the Library says that "all of the money will go...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/new_york_public.html Birmingham Museum of Art- April 11, 2005 I stopped by the Birmingham Museum of Art yesterday before heading up to the library to study - and enjoyed myself immensely. I must admit (shamefully) that I had not visited the BMA in at least a year. So my...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/birmingham_muse.html CBS News makeover- April 11, 2005 Don Hewitt said in an interview with the NYT that a revamped CBS Nightly News might be successful if it were to employ Jon Stewart on Monday night and Christopher Buckley on Tuesday night, followed by other anchors on subsequent...http://alwaysright.blogs.com/always_right/2005/04/cbs_news_makeov.html |