by Gil Friend | Dec 12, 2002 | Politics
Keeping an eye on you Lance has a diagram of Poindexter’s TIA (total information awareness) program up. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog] They’re going to know everything about you, so you might as well know a little about...
by Gil Friend | Dec 11, 2002 | Politics
Quote of the day… comes from KARL ROVE, Bush’s long-time political guru and White House advisor: “As people do better, they start voting like Republicans… unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too...
by Gil Friend | Dec 10, 2002 | Politics
Lance Knobel on US Treasury Secretary-designate John Snow: The Wall Street Journal reports that Treasury secretary-designate John Snow’s company, rail freight giant CSX, is no great shakes. “For all its progress, CSX still has the worst operating ratio, a...
by Gil Friend | Dec 10, 2002 | Politics
Let’s be careful out there II Photographer arrested for taking pictures of Vice President’s hotel: “An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in his home city of Denver – for simply taking pictures of buildings in an...
by Gil Friend | Dec 7, 2002 | Politics
A very skeptical view of the iraq inspection effort Debka: “Washington Gathers Own Evidence of Saddam’s WMD”: Saddam’s demonstration of openness is in fact another exercise in obfuscation…. Washington in any case had no expectation of...
by Gil Friend | Dec 7, 2002 | Politics
Quotes of the day: “High finance ain’t burglary, an’ it ain’t obtaining money under false pretenses, an’ it ain’t manslaughter. It’s what ye might call a judicious selection from th’ best feature of them arts.”...
