North Korea nuclear fears deepen. The posturing continues. As I pointed out the other day, China has explicitly stated they will not allow any sanctions on the Norks to pressure them to do anything. The DPRK has now showed their hand by threatening to make their arsenal even larger. Next up the US will make some sort of strong statement which will be villified by the press as "dangerous", "sabre-rattling", "rigid", "inflexible" and so on. Democrats and leftists (but I repeat myself) will be wailing, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments. After everyone sits down, the real negotiations will begin. Eventually, the US will get something, China will to and I think even the DPRK will get to stay around a while longer. IF they pull out of the talks this time, there will be trouble. Perhaps even a blockade.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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