Crib Notes

*The Beebs is looking to start an Arabic competitor to al Jazeera. Well, at least they don’t have to worry about slanting their stories to interest the new audience.
*It sounds like Algore may have given another one of his fuhrer speeches. Do we need to worry about Al starting a beer gut putsch?
*Is it possible that Bill Clinton has an informal arrangement with the Bushes to defeat John Kerry? They’ve been awfully chummy of late, and in a recent interview, Clinton gave Kerry a real robust endorsement by saying that Kerry had fifty percent chance of winning.
*In re Jack Ryan: You were married to Jeri Ryan, and you managed to screw it up in such a monumentally dumb way, you fool. You’d have been perfect for Congress.
*Democrats and liberals have very little sense how bad Hitler and the Third Reich really were, or they are whores for power and campaign donations.
*Michael Moore is doing great harm to the categories documentary and non-fiction.
*Truth seems to be an inconvenience for the left this year, so their strategy would appear to be to obfuscate it.
*Republicans have been saying the McCain-Feingold act is a violation of the First Amendment because it is government restriction of the people’s right to free political speech. Now a conservative group, Citizens United, has asked the FEC to investigate whether ads for Fahrenheit 9/11 violates federal campaign finance law, and if they do, to ban the ads after July 31. Moore’s response? “…a blatant attempt on the part of a right-wing, Republican sponsored group to stop people from seeing my movie,” and “It’s a violation of my first Amendment rights that I cannot advertise my movie.” Sounds like they’re trying to violate your right to free speech, Michael. Legally. Thank your Democrat buddies for that one.
*Berkley is discussing legalizing prostitution in what is essentially a non-binding initiative on the ballot this fall. First, this does not surprise me. Second, as I’ve always said, legalized prostitution will drive down prices for most prostitutes, and it will make the unlicensed ones even more vulnerable than now (there will always be illegal prostitution unless you put no restrictions on it at all).