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George W. Bush may have met his Waterloo with conservatives over the Katrina relief proposal. It's not just the proposal itself, but coupled with an unwillingness to reign in any government spending (such as on the highway bill), Bush is...

Daschle's old college publicity chairman Dave Kranz is writing about Daschle's possible run for President today:Daschle for president? Speaking at Iowa dinner DAVID KRANZFormer Sen. Tom Daschle set off speculation Tuesday that he might be interested in running for president...

Like I said in the post immediately before this one, Thursday nights are my time to relax. So I'm relaxing. And with this post, I'm relaxing a bit on the tight grip I've been trying to keep on the profanity...

Next high court pick anyone's guess

The next appointment for the Supremes is going to be where the rubber meets the road. Bush will either waffle to try to ger along with the Donks, or he can apoint a red meat conservative and jab a finger in the Donkaey's eye.

Hopefully it will be the latter, and one also hopes that the Senate GOP will have big enough cojones to make the appointment stick, whether or not it takes the "COnstitutional option" to shut down a filibuster, or whatever...

Time will tell, and this is one the Chief will be watching closely, along with many others from all sides of the political spectrum. On with the show!

The U.N.'s terrorism gap

The feckless usefulness of the UN once again is apparent as it failed agin to come to any agreement on condemning terrorism. The opposition came primarily from the 56 OIC (Organization of Isalmic Countries)members...surprise, surprise, surprise! Who woulda ever thunk it!

A proposed U.N. convention against terrorism has been stalled since 1997. The holdup? How to define terrorism. But this is nothing more than a semantic trick. The Islamic states insist that terrorism must be defined not by the nature of the act but by its purpose. Putting a bomb in a market or train or bus is not an act of terrorism, they say, if it is done for a righteous purpose; namely national liberation or resistance to occupation. To say there is a problem of definition is to focus on a word. The real question is whether it is ever legitimate to target women, children and other noncombatants. For the Islamic states, the answer is yes.(Emphasis added)

Not only did the OIC oppose any meaningful definition of terrorism, it proposed changing the resolution to approve attacks, but it sought a refaffirmation of language in a 1970 resolution: "reaffirm[ing] ? the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise their right to self-determination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal."

The final phrase is euphemistic language included to implicitly approve terrorism. In the current action, the US claimed a partial victory by stopping such a reaffirmation.

If this is the best that can be hoped for from the UN, then we would be well served to bail out, and then to send them all packing off to Geneva or somewhere, anywhere away from the U.S.

Power Line: Uncharted Territory, Once Again Drudge: Clinton Turns on Bush...

Within hours of my last post the Washington Post has adopted my position: that a Supreme Court nominee who is well qualified and not a radical should be confirmed by the Senate, regardless of whether that nominee leans to the...

From today's Hotline:President Bush has produced a nominee that probably qualifies, and I would support him. -- Tom Daschle on Roberts, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 9/22...

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