Bizzy’s AM Coffee Biz-Econ-Life Links (041206)
Free Links:
- It appears that the bill that would ban all online gambling introduced by Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte is a bigtime overreaction to a not very big problem. Y’think the fact that Virginia’s 6th District, which Goodblatte represents, includes Lynchburg, home of Jerry Falwell, might have something to do with this grandstanding piece of legislation that would appear to have no chance of passage?
- So Now They Want to Take Away Bob Taft’s Law License after his ethics convictions last year. With all due respect, what took the state Supreme Court’s disciplinary counsel almost eight months, and why should I not question the timing three weeks before the primary?
- Lincoln Logs is right (no, not about the US Senate GOP Primary :–>) — The Alan Mollohan story should be big. Very big.
- Flipping Off the Hamburger-Flipper Argument — “Newest job numbers show that businesses are expanding opportunities in high-wage fields.” Imagine that.
- S.O.B. Alliance member Large Bill linked to my Pierce endorsement (thanks!), and, at the end of his roundup post, shockingly reveals that he wishes to be a hyphenated American — Legal-American. That’s a good one.
Lunchtime Read:
One of the OpinionJournal Federation’s first offerings yesterday was a very good one from the American Spectator. Robert T. McLean’s “Bullish on Baghdad — The Iraqi economy shows signs of strength” broke through the near-total blackout on economic news from that country with this second-paragraph overview:
As the Iraq campaign continues to be labeled a disaster by political opponents of the Bush administration at home, by those suspicious of the United States abroad, and increasingly by conservatives who call themselves realists yet have no realistic plan for Iraq, positive indicators about the Iraqi economy are not too hard to find. Though the economy expanded by an unimpressive 2.6% in real terms in 2005, that figure is scheduled to reach over 10% this year, as reported by the International Monetary Fund. Dawn Liberi, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Iraq, noted in February that per capita income has increased from $500 at the time of the invasion in 2003 to $1,500 today.
Read the whole thing if you didn’t catch it yesterday.
