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...does it matter if a worthy goal - weaning the U.S. from foreign-policy complications by meeting more of its energy needs at home - is just what the terrorists wanted? Is it OK to add a little more political correctness to U.S. treatment of the alleged terrorists at X-Ray, if only to keep them under control and the international community off the Pentagon's back while it ponders what to do with its captives? And could the war on terror - lately expanded with the departure of U.S. military trainers to Yemen - benefit from a little partisan nay-saying...
Douthat: OK. I’ll question it. I’ve listened to it and I think that as art, it’s embarrassingly bad, it’s another failure and if I made it, I’d be embarrassed. And I’m not trying to question the validity of spoken word or rap or any of those traditions. I just think that Cornel West has made a rather bad spoken word CD where he says a bunch of rather banal things that are not terribly interesting...
...blackout period - oh, that blackout period. It may be a pleasant thought that Ken Lay wouldn't have been able to pay back that billion-dollar loan with company stock during the lockdown. But if Bush really wanted to make things fair for workers and investors, "OK for the sailor" and "OK for the captain," as he put it Friday, he'd make a company halt all trading of its stock - Wall Street too - while a blackout period was on. Then we'd see how often those blackouts occurred - and what happened during them...
...OK, so older brother George W.'s job isn't easy either. But he does have one advantage Jeb would love: He doesn't have to budge on taxes. This month the President told Democrats they would freeze his tax cuts "not over my dead body," (we'll just ignore that creative syntax). But last month Jeb had to delay $128 million dollars in tax relief. Both Florida and the nation are facing tough economic times and shrinking tax revenues. But while state governments have to balance their books, the feds can get away with deficit spending, at least...
...Here's what Kenneth Lay appears to have gotten for his money (and friendship) with this White House. A seat at the table for Dick Cheney's energy-policy formulations - OK, six seats - and the grace of the Enron-friendly energy policy that resulted. Possibly veto power over the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - former chief Curtis Hebert Jr. says Bush replaced him not long after Hebert declined Lay's demand for a friendlier stance toward energy deregulation. And a very big black book...