ITEM: See the guy weeping above? This is the ACORN community organizer (the paper’s phrase, not mine) in San Diego who offered to help smuggle underage girl into the United States for prostitution. Turns out that ACORN actually fired him.
NATIONAL CITY – Local ACORN officials reversed an earlier decision Thursday afternoon and fired a community [...]
9/12 UPDATE: Sandra and I are now here in DC, staying right downtown. We’re attending a meeting this morning over at the DC Armory and then will hit the National Gallery of Art. (It is sad how few times when went there during the nearly 8 years total that we lived in DC and the [...]
MID-MORNING LINKS [updated as I run across them]
ITEM: It turns out there’s at least one thing that the Communist Chinese government and I agree upon:
China alarmed by US money printing
The US Federal Reserve’s policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to [...]
OVERNIGHT LINK (note the singular)
ITEM: The Onion has become so much better than Saturday Night Live at video humor:
Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’
Well, that’s probably it for the day. I have work to do. ..bruce w..
MORNING LINKS — again, blogging will be light this week, due both to work and to hardware problems
ITEM: If there’s any question whether the departure of Sen. Arlen Specter (ID-Ego) from the Republican Party is a good thing, he settled it this weekend:
Mr. Specter continued: “If [the Republicans] had pursued what President Nixon declared in [...]
ADMIN: Yeah, I know today’s post title doesn’t rhyme with the others — but here’s a quick test of your own nit-pickiness: did the difference between Monday’s title and the rest of the week bother you?
MORNING LINKS (and these are likely the only link you’ll get today).
LINK: Speaking of workers, I’m going to be tied [...]
OVERNIGHT LINKS — well, just one, really.
I’m heading out to the Left Coast for some time to come, so blogging will be a bit more sporadic and light. For today . . .
ITEM: Debra Saunders takes a look at Pelosi’s Tortured Explanation:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a “truth commission” to investigate the [...]