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3.3.2001 2:29 PM Mike and the D.C. area are going to get dumped.
"Nor'easter threatens Eastern Seaboard" Sean Hackbarth | 2:06 PM President Bush is taking full advantage of the office's bully pulpit. Personal events, television speeches, radio addresses, one-on-one conversations, all are used by Bush to build support for his tax cut plan. Some may compare this campaign atmosphere to Bill Clinton's perpetual campaign he ran while in office for eight years. But the decided difference is the focus. Bill was always focused on the one person he always cared about--Bill. Focus groups and opinion polls were constantly employed to see how Bill could always remain in the public's good graces and how to massage public sentiment. Bush, on the other hand, is advocating a set of ideas. Sure, it's in Bush's long term political interests to win the budget/tax battle, but it's really refreshing to see the emphasis on ideas rather than personality. "Bush Takes to Radio Waves to Push Tax Cut" Sean Hackbarth | 3.2.2001 8:05 PM Kausfiles has slapped an Amazon.com cash box and a mini-portal to the bottom of the site. Sean Hackbarth | 7:57 PM Afghanistan, the most backward nation on earth, is destroying its cultural past. "Afghanistan's Antiquities Under Assault" Sean Hackbarth | 7:26 PM A great ship named after a great President, the USS Ronald Reagan wil be christened Sunday. "Navy, Shipbuilders Prepare Reagan Carrier for Christening" Sean Hackbarth | 3.1.2001 2:19 AM Zannah has a first-hand account of living through the Seattle earthquake. Sean Hackbarth | 1:58 AM Professor Bart Beaty says the difficulty of securing copyright permission is "absolutely the most serious problem facing comic-book scholarship." There's actually comic book scholarship?!? The possible homoeroticism in Batman comics doesn't surprise me as much as the small industry of comic book scholarship. There's an International Journal of Comic Art and an International Encyclopedia of Comics soon to be published. Ah, the power of tenure. "Pow! Wham! Permission Denied!" Sean Hackbarth | 1:32 AM Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial page editor Paul Greenberg went from being a commentator blocked from a local public radio station because of his conservative views to a commentator defended by his liberal counterpart who will share air time with him. BEFORE "My Brief Radio Career: Shut Up, They Explained" AFTER "Back on the Air, or Radio Free Arkansas" Kudos go out to Kevin for the tip. Sean Hackbarth | 1:17 AM The New York Observer wants Hillary Clinton booted out of her Senate seat:
"Clinton Corruption Plays Us for Fools—We Won’t Forget" Sean Hackbarth | 2.28.2001 1:51 PM As if you didn't know, President Bush addressed Congress last night. I worked late and so I didn't catch it live or hear any of the post-speech spin. So this little piece of analysis is purely derived from the inner workings of my brain. Bush stuck to his campaign mantra of education, defense, tax cuts, and reforming medicare and social security. Instead of just mentioning his priorities if elected President, he put flesh on those policy bones. He proposed lots of money for a federal reading program; student testing to see if they're learning and to hold schools accountable; and parental options to save children from failing public schools. Bush wants a pay increase for soldiers and a complete review of our armed forces to see how they can best defend the U.S. in a post-Cold War world. Creation of savings accounts for younger workers (i.e. me) within social security was also mentioned. As a political economist, I was most interested in Bush's tax cut plan. He stood firm in it's size ($1.6 trillion) and reiterated his point that "Everyone who pays income taxes will get relief." That's his method of attack against the class warfare, soak-the-rich pablum thrown out by the Democrats. Bush even raised up the ghost of a tax-cutting Democratic President, John F. Kennedy and tossed him into the same sentence with a tax-cutting Republican President, Ronald Reagan. Then there were points I had to politely disagree. Giving oodles of cash to the Department of Education may be politically popular, but it isn't constitutional. I'm also worried that Bush's insistence on testing students will open up local schools to heavier regulation from Washington. This may not happen during Bush's term in office, but future Presidents could claim this power. Let me conclude by saying that Bush didn't offer any surprises. He's been consistently on message since last year's campaign. He's a disciplined politician who is getting comfortable with the grandure of the Presidency. Assuming he can get much of his proposals through Congress he could have one hell of a first term. Address of the President to the Joint Session of Congress Sean Hackbarth | 1:22 PM Angus is as excited as I am about a new Battlestar Galatica series. I've been catching up on the episodes as they appear on the Sci-Fi Channel via Tivo. The story lines aren't as cheesy as you'd think, Athena's hot, and I can swear like Star Buck. (FRACK!) I need more! Sean Hackbarth | 12:44 PM Bill Clinton says, "I want to get out of the news," but don't believe him. This man craves attention. He feeds off the attention (both good and bad) of people around him. Clinton went on to say, "I am trying to go home and have a life." But his life for over 20 years has been in the public limelight. He's gotten used to the celebrity drug. Believe me, I want him to disappear. I want the media focused on President Bush's budget and his tax cut. "Clinton Wants to Shun Headlines, 'Have a Life'" Sean Hackbarth | 2.27.2001 2:39 AM I've been meaning to post this for a few days, but I got distracted with putting the finishing touches on the new site. Kevin Whited's weblog has seemingly come out of no where to being a great source for high quality, though-provoking links. He's also RIGHT politically. I've added it to the TAM weblog family. If I ever get off my lazy duff and fire up my text editor, maybe I'll add it to the new portal I must work on. Reductio Ad Absurdum Sean Hackbarth | 2:32 AM Robert Bartley's a fan of Calvin Coolidge:
Bartley isn't a fan of JFK:
"Viewing Reflected Images" Sean Hackbarth | 2:15 AM Jennifer Braceras followed the work of the United States Commission on Civil Rights as it investigated charges of minority voter disenfranchisement in Florida. They didn't find anything of any substance, but that didn't stop Chairman Mary Frances Berry from saying, "Most of what happened to people was not even being able to get to the polls or being able to vote." This only fuels the conspiracy mongers in the Democratic Party and liberal minority political groups who continue to think Al Gore won the election when we know he didn't. "Uncivil Commission" Sean Hackbarth | 12:29 AM The women on Rep. Tom DeLay's congressional staff have been dubbed by the Washington Post as the "Whip Chicks." I'd love to read the letters to the editor from the male-hating NOW gang over the catchy name. ""Business Groups Eager to Ornament Tax Cut" Sean Hackbarth | 2.26.2001 11:11 PM What do sci-fi geeks do when they're not at their day jobs? They dig up tiny nuggets of movie news and complain that Spider-Man won't have mechanical web shooters. Why James Cameron thinks spider webs shooting out of Peter Parker's wrists are so important in the up coming movie, I don't know. Although it is interesting how the Internet allows die-hard fans to voice their opinions and actually have them acted on. "Web Shooting may be partly mechanical after all for Spider-Man." Sean Hackbarth | 3:37 AM Welcome to the new digs! After over a year of serious blogging, I decided that I needed some breathing room (thanks Dreamhost). A big long address on Angelfire wasn't as geeky as having my very own domain name (thanks Dotster) and I wanted to find out what all the fun was about with Blogger. After observing the soap opera at Pyra, I'm wondering what I got myself into. Let me know what you think of the new design. Mucho thanks go to Mike for his comments, tips, suggestions, and for finding the proud eagle adorning the top of the page. My portal is lousy, but it's my next project. A new feature you might like is the guestbook (thanks Dreambook). It needs someone to christen it. Just because it's a new look at a new domain powered by some spiffy software, TAM will still provide links and commentary I hope will provoke thought, entertain, and enlighten. If none of that happens when you come here, then just look at that really handsome eagle. If you really miss the old site, it's still at Angelfire. Sean Hackbarth | 2:17 AM Scientists have pretty much ignored metals as useful superconductors. They usually require really, really cold temperatures. Instead, they've been playing around with oxygen-based compounds. Now, scientists have discovered that a metal reaches superconductivity at a higher tempature. "Superconductivity Finding Could Aid in Building High-speed Computers" Sean Hackbarth | 1:56 AM No more claims that President Bush is illegitimate. Based on a ballot review of votes in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Volusia Counties, Al Gore would have only gained 49 votes. And this review used very liberal standards like "counting every dimple, pinprick and hanging chad identified in the section for presidential votes on the ballots." It's over! Al Gore lost, and George W. Bush is President. Live with it! "Paper: Gore Gained Only 49 Votes" Sean Hackbarth | |
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