. . . over at Les Jones Blog.

Fox News talking head Bill O’Reilly claims that the San Francisco gay marriages are sparking anarchy and the city’s mayor should be arrested.
RTB correspondent Manish visits the scene of the crime and files a more tranquil report.

Boy, I wouldn’t fare very well at this school:

Under a new policy at the Lawrence Middle School, seventh- and eighth-graders are allowed to leave class for the bathroom a maximum of 15 times a month. As a result, some are afraid to use up their bathroom passes too quickly and end up with a full bladder and nowhere to go.
School officials defend the policy as a way to ensure safety, security and order. But some parents say the system goes too far. The right to go to the bathroom, they say, is a health and civil rights issue and as taxpayers, they think it is a freedom they pay for.
“When my son Matthew used all his passes, he was then told he couldn’t go to the bathroom,” parent Susan Gregory said in a published report. “We called the school and were told the bathroom is a privilege, not a right.
“This is utterly ridiculous. Now my son doesn’t want to go to the bathroom at school,” she said. “He says he won’t drink or he’ll hold it until he gets home. This can’t be healthy.”
Urologists say the practice can lead to infections and incontinence.
“Common sense tells you the policy doesn’t make any sense,” said Dr. Christopher S. Cooper, an associate professor of urology at the University of Iowa who specializes in pediatric urology. “When children need to go, they should be allowed to go. It isn’t good to hold it in or drink less fluids. It could have long-term effects on a child’s health.”

The school reportedly adopted this policy because of bomb threats and students cutting class. Bomb threats? I don’t quite follow the logic. I just hope the brains at the Department of Homeland Security don’t pick up on this as an effective way of combating terrorism. I don’t want to have to hold it every time we go to code orange.

Senator Kerry doesn’t want word of this to get out:

If North Carolina Senator John Edwards were the Democratic Party’s candidate and George W. Bush were the Republican Party’s candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?
Edwards 54%
Bush 44%

Kerry’s going to have a tougher time of things if he has to woo voters on issues and likability rather than being the sole beneficiary of the media-driven electability myth.

Division in the ranks:

Treasury Secretary John W. Snow distanced himself on Tuesday from the Bush administration’s official prediction that the nation would add 2.6 million jobs by the end of this year.
That prediction, which is far more optimistic than that of many private sector forecasters, was part of the annual economic report released last week by the White House Council of Economic Advisers and was immediately echoed by Mr. Bush himself.
But on a tour through Washington and Oregon to promote the president’s economic agenda, Mr. Snow and Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans both declined to endorse the White House prediction and cautioned that it was based on economic assumptions that have an inherent margin of error.
“I think we are going to create a lot of jobs; how many I don’t know,” Mr. Snow said, adding that “macroeconomic models are based on a lot of assumptions” and are “not without a range of error.”

I wonder if Mr. Snow realizes that this is the type of thing that could get him fired. Anyway, it’s doesn’t instill much confidence when your own cabinet doesn’t get on board with a forecast. Then again, when have any of the administration’s predictions actually been correct? On anything?
UPDATE: Bush himself didn’t want to touch the jobs forecast today. It’s the “number-crunchers'” fault!