10-02-08

Victor Davis Hanson joins the chorus of conservative critics of the ‘Cuda?

Marc Sheppard: Call it what you will, but the $700,000,000,000 credit rescue Bill that passed the Senate last night is one strange piece of lawmaking. Take one part Monday’s failed H.R. 3997 and soften it to liberal pleasure. Now add it to a mental health parity measure that’s languished on Capitol Hill so long it’s got Paul Wellstone’s name in its main title. Add a one-year patch to the alternative minimum tax, a dash of disaster relief for Hurricane Ike victims, a green energy Bill that might well have otherwise been adorned with veto ink, and plenty of porcine fat  - now stir well, and Voilà!

Bill Dyer: If you only know three things that Sarah Palin has accomplished as Governor of Alaska, it should be these three

Joel J. Sprayregen, a Chicago lawyer, spent last week in Georgia observing damage from war and meeting government officials: Georgian Deputy Defense Minister Batu Kutelia told me that 1700 Russian soldiers were killed, as compared with 167 Georgians, and that 17 Russian combat aircraft were shot down, including a TU-22 strategic bomber.

Ed Morrissey: This puts a dent in the government-conspiracy theory that claimed AIDS came from a biological weapons program of the 1970s.

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