World O’Crap monitors the propaganda on WGOP AM.
I suspect if President Bush went out on Pennsylvania Avenue and shot a five-year-old in cold blood, we’d have plenty of talk radio apologists using 9/11 to justify the murder.

This came as a bit of a surprise to me:

A senior U.S. administration official said for the first time Tuesday legalizing prescription drug imports is inevitable and would save consumers money.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, whose agency has led the opposition to imported drugs, also said he would advise President George W. Bush not to stand in the way of legislation to make it legal for drugs to be imported from abroad.
“I think it’s coming,” Mr. Thompson said at a news conference devoted mainly to the new U.S. Medicare discount drug cards.
“I think Congress is going to pass it.”�

That last line is telling, as this “principled” administration has a history of reversing itself and trying to take credit for something once it becomes inevitable in Congress (see Department of Homeland Security, 9/11 Commission).
At any rate, importing prescription drugs from Canada is not the ultimate long-term solution for skyrocketing costs. But it is refreshing to see someone in the administration responding to the concerns of ordinary Americans over those of big business, even if his hand was forced into it.

Ambassador Joseph Wilson was on last night’s Lou Dobbs Tonight and made a notable prediction:

DOBBS: What would you have the United States do now in Iraq?
WILSON: Anything I say about that now is likely going to be overtaken by events within the next 48 hours. I believe, as a former Reagan official and good friend of mine said just the other night, we are on the eve of a strategic catastrophe.
Now, if we don’t have a plan already off the shelf which basically involves putting in massive amounts of military soldiers and material and heavy armor — one of the big problems in this is not the lack of body armor. It is the lack of Bradley fighting vehicles and M-1 tanks to protect our forces out there.
You contrast what we did in Baghdad with what we did in Bosnia, where we took no battlefield deaths during the eight years that we did that, to the 700 deaths we’re taking now.
But in order to recoup the situation, you’ve got to quell the insurgency. You’ve got to shock it, and at the same time you’ve got to demonstrate to the international community that you are serious. And the only way you can demonstrate that is through this massive new investment of military and material.

I don’t know what Wilson is hinting about “within the next 48 hours,” and in typical TV fashion Dobbs didn’t follow up on this intriguing statement.
We’ll soon see if anything happens.

I didn’t realize–really hadn’t even thought about it–that some state sex offender registries include juveniles guilty of consensual statutory rape. The Michigan State Senate is currently considering its list to remove the names of teenagers who had consensual sex with someone close in age.
One really has to question why the social stigma of a dangerous predator should be attached to teenagers who have consensual sex.

If I frequented these New York City locations, this kind of thing would make me nervous:

Five suspicious bags have been found unattended this year at Penn Station and other sensitive locations, prompting an investigation into whether they were left by terrorists attempting to gauge the city’s response.

Could just be some forgotten bags. Could be someone pulling a hoax. But it could also be someone probing security for a future event.