Far be it from me to question the motives or veracity of the 12 honorable Republicans on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, but isn't it just a little too coincidental that, for the first time since GW Bush ascended to the throne, they're asking for a bigger VA budget than the Dems on the committee are requesting?

A White House official who serves as President Bush's liaison to the religious community has been caught plagiarizing a column that he writes for an Indiana newspaper. Tim Goeglein, deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, admitted that portions of a column he wrote today for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel were copied from an article written several years ago by Jeffrey Hart in the Dartmouth Review.

Matt Drudge reported yesterday that Prince Harry was fighting in Afghanistan, news that was being kept secret by the British media to prevent him from being targeted by the Taliban.

Back to Monday's "trifecta of the absurd" editorial page, and Bill Kristol's shameless attempt to spin some fairly simple and harmless statements by both Barack and Michelle Obama into a tapestry of wrongness and culthood (frankly, I don't care if its a word; it fits).

The good old NY Times editorial page on Monday was as grim a spectacle as you could ask for. Spin pieces by Geraldine Ferraro and Bill Kristol, and a H U G E ad by the Washington Legal Foundation. Let's talk about the WLF first (but I hope to get around to Ms Ferraro and Mr. Kristol).

This topic's always guaranteed to get some folk's dander up, yeahbaby. Blogger Sara Robinson reminds us that if certain things don't get fixed and soon, we could, according to some cute math....well, let's just say...the name Robespierre come to mind?

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In the spirit of GM's decision to try to rid itself of all its domestic workers, lets revisit the American employment issue in all its diminishing glory. Take the effect of globalization on America's cherished self image as a place where economic mobility is woven into the national fabric.

Even though it's a product of the conservative National Review, I read The Corner because it's a great format for political blogging -- a bunch of writers of similar politics sharing links and exchanging ideas with each other. But sometimes, all that like-mindedness draws out ugly sentiments a political partisan wouldn't normally express in mixed company. For example, Lisa Schiffren thinks that Republicans should dig into Barack Obama's mixed-race parentage, because interracial babies born in the late '50s and early '60s were the product of a Communist conspiracy.

Mike Huckabee seems to think so. Or at least that's my reading of the Huckabee campaign's press release which referenced his recent endorsement by James Dobson and Paul Weyrich, followed in short order by his claim that he represents the "heart and soul" of the party.

Have any idea what it costs to maintain a web site? Not much. And if the content of the web site is already being compiled and disseminated in other forms, the total cost of maintaining a site is real small. But not small enough for the Department of Commerce to maintain it's economicindicators.gov web site which presents economic data from both the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

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