08-27-08

Cliff Note: My friend Mark Minor, whose writings inspired Letters From Baghdad, just defeated incumbent St John’s County Commissioner Ben Rich in the Republican primary!

Newsbusters Noel Sheppard: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd even went so far as to quote someone in her most recent article who depicted the “weird and jittery” vibe inside the Pepsi Center as “Submerged hate.”

Economy-The Pie Got Bigger: Average U.S. income fell when George Bush took office in 2001. Naturally, Democrats and the media unfairly blamed him for it. But now Americans are better off than when Bill Clinton was president.

There’s more good news: Despite an economy starting to wobble, incomes were up and more people had health insurance last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Income inequality even shrank a bit.

Ed Morrissey: … combined with the so-called “sign of progress”, Barack Obama may be better suited to run for the presidency of the United Federation of Planets than the USA. Allahpundit reported last night on the plans for Obama to deliver his acceptance speech in front of a fake Greek temple, and John McCormack has the picture.

“A Caring Floridian” writes: Dear Gentleman, I found the following email link to contact Mayor Ray Nagin. I thought it would be a good idea for as many people as possible to contact Mr. Nagin and advise him to be prepared because Hurricane Gustav could be headed in his direction. We could actually help New Orleans not to suffer as tragically as they did in 2005 in the aftermath of Katrina. We could effectively warn them that the storm is coming. It is a possibility however, that they may be aware of the impending storm because some of the residents acquired new flat screen televisions. But we do not know if they also acquired cable or satellite service as well. We should all do our part before the storm. We could lend a hand, and help the poor and indigent citizens of New Orleans, by getting the word out now while there is time to board up the rental centers and Wal-Marts, load the busses and prepare the levies.

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