Former Aide Challenges Dems

Former Aide Challenges Dems

Bill Frist's staffer who was forced to resign files a formal complaint against the Dems and their confirmation tactics.

Think this will make a difference? Don't hold your breath.

The Reps don't have the stones to follow through with this as they have proved over and over again.

Former Aide in Memo Leak Seeks Probe of Dems

Manuel Miranda , who worked for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, has filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee charging that hundreds of damning memos currently in the hands of investigators prove serious public corruption by Democratic senators and their aides.

"I have knowledge of other still unpublished documents that evidence a violation of the public trust in the judicial confirmation process on the part of Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee," Miranda wrote in a complaint to the ethics panel on Monday.

"This includes evidence of the direct influence of the Senate’s advice and consent role by the promise of campaign funding and election support in the last mid-term election."

BMI Is Too Strict?

BMI Is Too Strict?

Tom Cruise Is Fat?

What do baseball slugger Mark McGwire and actors Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise have in common?

They're all fat.

They may be hunky in the eyes of fans but according to the federal government's body mass index (BMI), that hunk is chunk. In other words, they have too much body fat for their height and weight. . . .

"I don't think it shows a really accurate picture of what's going on," she said. "There are other things to consider: Your lifestyle, how much you work out, how you eat, your cardiovascular health. So, simply comparing you to other people based on your height and weight is just not accurate."

Junk Science: Salt Scare

Junk Science: Salt Scare

Feds Press Salt Assault

The U.S. health establishment?s official position, as espoused for the last 30 years by the National Institutes of Health, is that everyone should restrict their salt intake. Regardless of the science, the NIH is not about to admit it?s been wrong ? even to the extent of refusing to make publicly available all the data on which the current dietary salt recommendation is based.

Fortunately for the NIH, the IOM panel was well stacked with sycophants that could be relied on not to bite the hand that feeds them. A majority of the IOM panel, including chairman Lawrence Appel, all receive research grants from the NIH.

In an effort to make the food industry rather than the NIH the problem, Dr. Appel told the Associated Press, ?There are commercial interests that don?t want this to happen.?

But why should the food industry be forced to sell less tasty food for no good reason?

More importantly, does it really make sense to experiment with the public health so that government bureaucrats don?t have to admit they?ve been wrong for the last 30 years?/blockquote>

The Fear Channel

The Fear Channel

Proposed Programing for "Fear Channel."

In an effort to cut costs in a sagging advertising market and best take advantage of the current social climate in time for the November sweeps ?rating? period, the major television networks have decided to combine their resources to create a new 24-hour cable news channel. ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and CNN have come together to construct the ?Fear Channel,? which promises to provide viewers with instant access to the latest news relating to the war on terrorism.

The following is a sample day of programming for the ?Fear Channel,? which, appropriately, plans to begin broadcasting just after Halloween.

5:00am-9:00am? ?You Might Die Today.? Wake up each morning with news that will make you wonder how you and your family ever made it through yesterday and will prepare you for all the many potential pitfalls of today. Learn about all the new dangers that experts are imagining before your neighbors do! You?ll never again drink that coffee or eat that pastry without wondering what peril lies inside them!

And it only gets better from there. Great satire!

Taxing the Internet

Taxing the Internet

"The pressure for doing something just keeps growing," said Bill Fox, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee and a tax policy expert. He said major retailers including Wal-Mart and trade groups support voluntary reporting, states are working together, and the courts await a challenge if Congress doesn't act.

He expects the days of the virtually tax-free Internet will end in a few years.

Indian Givers?

Indian Givers?

By providing techincal jobs at a lower price, India is actually helping propel our economy forward by forcing it to adapt and produce different jops. - Economist

Bush Adviser Draws Ire for Job Comments

Greenspan and Mankiw have also both advanced the argument that the jobs shipped overseas in manufacturing in recent years are not lost forever because a dynamic U.S. economy will produce new jobs in different fields.

Kerry = Clinton 2?

Kerry = Clinton 2?

CAMPAIGN DRAMA ROCKS DEMOCRATS: KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN

Peter Fitzgerald: Man of Conscience?

Peter Fitzgerald: Man of Conscience?

FoxNews: Retiring Senator Stood Up for Principles

I’m not a fan of everything Sen. Fitzgerald has done with his six years in Washington. He seems overly fond of arguably needless and wasteful environmental regulations, for example. But I do like that he thinks for himself, that he’s willing to put his neck on the line for honest, accountable government, and that he’s managed in just one term to agitate all the right people — the entrenched politicians, the powerful lobbyists, and the home-state interests hungry for pork.

So if no one else will say it, I will:

It’s too bad that Sen. Peter Fitzgerald is retiring. He deserves a promotion.

VoIP

VoIP

FoxNews: Telephony Should Be Nurtured, Not Smothered

. . . the FCC needs to keep VOIP as free as possible from arbitrary fees and regulations. The commission’s task won’t be easy.

Taranto Nails It

Taranto Nails It

James Taranto of OpinionJournal.com's Best of the Web absolutely NAILED it on Wednesday.

Liberals sometimes claim to believe in personal freedom, but their concept of liberty seems limited to matters related to sex. If a man wants to marry a man or a woman wants to have an abortion, they're fine with that. The Associated Press reports that "a 35-year-old Frenchwoman became both bride and widow when she married her dead boyfriend, in an exchange of vows that required authorization from the French president," and we expect liberals would regard any objection to such an arrangement as hopelessly benighted. Live and let live, even if you're dead.

Yet outside the sexual realm, liberals are downright illiberal. They want to control every aspect of our lives: what we eat, what we smoke, what we drive, how we defend our homes and families, how much of our own money we're allowed to keep.

Doubting Dubya's Duty

Doubting Dubya's Duty

National Review Online - Kerry More Commanding as Chief?

First, did Mr. Bush meet all of his obligations as a member of the Texas Air National Guard? . . .

Second, and more seriously, does President Bush's decision to join the Air National Guard mean that he is less qualified to lead the nation in war than John Kerry, who served bravely in combat during the Vietnam War?

Blix-y Baby Believed in Bombs

Blix-y Baby Believed in Bombs

Hans Blix said in a private memo in March of 2003 that he believed that Iraq may have been hiding as much as 10000 liters (2642 gallons) of anthrax. Seems maybe it wasn't just Bush who believed Iraq had WMD.

Exclusive: Blix Backed Bush on WMD

UNITED NATIONS - U.N. chief Iraq arms inspector Dr. Hans Blix believed that Baghdad may have been hiding as much as 10,000 liters of deadly anthrax before the U.S.- and British-led coalition invasion of Iraq in March 2003.