Janet Reno Announces Her Candidacy for Governor of Florida. Link from The American Mind. W
According to a recent poll, most Americans trust President Bush to appoint Federal judges - 12% think his appointees will be too liberal, 30% think they will be too conservative, but 52% think they will be "just right."
You won’t find the above poll numbers, however, in the Washington Post or on ABC News. Ordinarily that would not be surprising. But in this case it ought to be. The numbers come from last week’s Washington Post/ABC News Poll.
Only about 15% of those polled were "bothered a lot" by the prospect of conservative judicial appointments. These results are just a little surprising but they mean that mainstream America does not share the Democrite view of what we should expect from our judiciary.
Question twenty of the Washington Post poll is also a real stunner:
Who do you think would do a better job regulating health plans: (the federal government) or (individual state governments)?
Federal gov't: 27
State gov't: 65
Neither: 4
No difference: 1
No opinion: 4
(6/3/01)
By more than 2-to-1, these folks have rejected Democrite calls for a greater Federal role in regulation of health care. But to listen to the Democrites, you'd think this was the voters' number-one priority. It just ain't so. (Don't miss question 19, either.) W
Clinton defender and former White House Counsel Lanny Davis apologized to Ken Starr on national TV last night, for what he called "going over the line" in "attacking his integrity or impugning his motives." NewsMax reprinted the exchange between Davis and Sean Hannity. Starr has apparently made no comment. W
Something cool is coming tomorrow. W
Jonah Goldberg stamps RETURN TO SENDER...
Now, France as we all know considers itself a rival of the United States in much the same way Ithaca College considers itself a rival of Cornell University. The rivalry expends a great amount of Ithaca's energy and is completely unknown to Cornell students. Likewise, if one in a thousand Americans even has a clue that the heroic valets to the German army are upset with us I'd be shocked.
...on the European establishment's centuries-old scorn for the United States. W
The headline says it all: The Press Gets It Wrong - Our report doesn't support the Kyoto treaty, written by Richard Lindzen, one of the authors of the National Academy of Sciences's recent report on global climate change, and a professor of meteorology at MIT.
[The report] represented a span of views... making clear that there is no consensus, unanimous or otherwise, about long-term climate trends and what causes them.
The press, says Lindzen, badly misrepresented the report. We may not be able to predict climate change, but one thing we can always rely the media to miss the story.
Within the confines of professional courtesy, the NAS panel essentially concluded that the IPCC's Summary for Policymakers does not provide suitable guidance for the U.S. government.
This is because that summary is prepared by government representatives rather than scientists. According to Lindzen, "The resulting document has a strong tendency to disguise uncertainty, and conjures up some scary scenarios for which there is no evidence." W
Rich Galen has an excellent piece from yesterday on President Bush's opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. As it turns out, the position embraced by our president - we will not participate ina treaty that exempts India and China, among others - is exactly the same position the United States Senate took in 1997. For those of you who don't remember, in a fit of extremist frenzy, the Senate voted 95 - 0 to condemn the Kyoto Protocol because it did not "binding commitments for developing countries on the same time scale as developed countries."
95 - 0. Not a single Senator voted in favor of the Kyoto Protocol. Of course, that doesn't stop the New York Times from blaming the President for long-standing U.S. opposition to the suicide pact. W
I am really starting to enjoy learning and using PHP for web programming.
Look for photo galleries - the ones I've been procrastinating for over a year - really soon. W
Incidentally, Lura has pictures of the infamous reunion, including one lovely shot of my sister with a death grip on her beer bottle. C'mon doc, put the bottle down for pictures! W
Let's set the record straight: In the "It's a small world" department, Mike's sister Katie went to high school with Lura. Katie ran into Lura and Michael at Katie and Lura's ten year high school reunion. They didn't know eachother well in high school, but they had a very pleasant conversation, and talked a little about the blogging (about which Katie is mostly clueless). Unless Katie misunderstood, MAS teased that he is nice enough to link to Mike, but Mike doesn't reciprocate. Hello! What is this? And this? W
If only Kottke would read here more often, he'd know about things like this days in advance. W
Some pictures by Jonathan of our gathering Friday night. Not too bad. W
John stumps a reader supporting Robert Redford's activism. W
Haiku is good model
Zeldman disciples like the
standardization
I hope to win second prize. W
The vermin has been exterminated. According to his attorney, McVeigh maintained "his sense of humor" until the end, and according to his biographer, died believing himself the victor, by a score of "168 to one."
You will not be missed. W