The Times Online has an editorial that challenges Britians next Prime Minister to change the nations approach to the Middle East and American foreign Policy. Podhertz's editorial The Case for Bombing Iran should concern all Americans.  The fact that Cheneny seems to have quite the warm spot for such a policy should scare the rest of the world as well.

Why we must break with the American crazies by Anatole Kaletsky

La Governor has hired James Lee Witt. The governor has just announced she has hired former FEMA director Witt to assist her.

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Our current space shuttle is an antique design now.  NASA estimates that there is a 1-in-100 chance of a catastrophic failure every time it flies. Each launch costs $500 million dollars.  

NASA has been struggling to develop a long over due replacement. After spending millions of dollars and several years of research following their traditional development model, they have little more than artist renderings and colorful chart presentations to show for it.

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The all Republican Alabama Supreme Court (the court that brought Judge Roy Moore national attention) will face a serious and worthy challenger. From the Columbus Ledger Enquirer , Russell County Circuit Court Judge Albert Johnson will be a Democratic candidate for the Alabama Supreme Court in 2006.

Johnson will run in a state dominated by the GOP with out fear because he will define what an Alabama Democrat is and not allow the opposing party to do that.

"I'm going to get a bumper sticker that says: 'I'm a Christian. I own a gun. I'm a Democrat.

I have no alternative but to run as a Democrat. I am a Democrat. I am unapologetically a Democrat. " Johnson said.

The Social Security "crisis" crew has often repeated the meme of a future shortfall as fewer workers support a retired population. This viral idea, the ratio of workers, is a fallacious argument that Bush and Co. state often. This meme came not out of sound economic theory, but rather from a PR firm. The fact is worker productivity gains make the "number of workers" rhetoric irrelevant. Worker productivity, GDP, Public Debt levels and tax base are far more relevant. This quote from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics explains the issue quite well:

While factors of production like land will always be scarce, the potential for increasing total factor productivity is limitless. At least half, if not more, of the growth in labor productivity in the post-World War II period has been due not to the use of added capital, but to making better use of these inputs. The United States produced 65 percent more in 1981 than in 1948 from the same quantity of labor and capital resources.