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George Will:
How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? No one knows, it’s never been tried.
That’s one of our great Conservative thinkers, ladies and gentlemen, proving yet again that reality need never get in the way either good propaganda or a good punch line.
Molly Ivins offers some perspective, but I’m sure it’ll be dismissed as “just another [...]
I am doing NaNoWriMo, so you’re not going to see a lot of original content from me for awhile.
But while cleaning out my harddrive (dodging the novel), I found this journal entry dated January 4, 2001 — just prior to Bush’s swearing in as the president of the United States, and over a year before I started [...]
Molly Ivans and others have long commented on President Bush’s hatred of lawyers and civil lawsuits. As governor of Texas he did everything he could to make it more difficult for people to sue. But suing It is about the only way American Citizens have of ensuring the government abides by any of the thousands [...]
Andersen, Enron, Worldcom, and now possibly AOL. All that corporate fraud, all that corporate crime. We’re going to stiffen penalties, yes? But Molly Ivans points out that at the same time we’re going to make it more difficult for them to get caught. She mentions two bills, one in the House and one in the Senate.
The [...]
I don’t think Molly Ivans is too hopeful that the Bush Administration will be able to come up with real reforms or real penalties for greedy CEOs:
Perhaps I am too cynical, but I believe there is a separate class of people in this country called Too Rich to Go to Prison. With the peerless John Ashcroft [...]