Left-wacko Molly Ivins grudgingly approves of the way Bush moderated the Texas courts. The Texas trial lawyers' association similarly approved.
It's hard to change the courts by changing the judges; it would be easier to change the court by modifying its jurisdiction, as congress has the power to do.
Now suddenly everybody from Casablanca, Cairo, Damascus, Riyadh, Tehran, Islamabad, Pyongyang and Jakarta have skin in the game. The last thing they want would be a WMD attack on the U.S.
OTOH, given that policy, it might be the first thing China wants.
Why Thompson would way something so stupid is beyond my reckoning. It might have been stupid to say it, but it happens to be true. It would be very easy to sabotage food imports. On the bright side, his statments provide more excuses for increased government power.
04/12/2004 2:27:08 PM PDT
· 8 of 8 Tauzero
to shrinkermd
"I feel a certain responsibility for again banging my spoon against this hedge fund highchair because I wrote the 1971 Nixon speech suspending the convertibility of the dollar into gold."
02/23/2004 7:06:35 PM PST
· 6 of 16 Tauzero
to Orangedog
Hmm. I dunno. Central banks do not, in fact, have "the power to print an endless amount of money either through the financial system or by dropping it from helicopters."