(via Jim Miller Link ) From the article in the Helena Independent Record "In a ruling released Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Lovell wrote that Jo Alice Mospan, former district director of the Helena SBA office, ruined the career of Mary Conway-Jepsen, and continued to retaliate after Conway-Jepsen resigned in 1997. The harassment, according to Conway-Jepsen and others, was because she objected to Mospan's discrimination against male employees in the Helena SBA offices." ...

My DW is on the mailing list for the People for the American Way (for humor value - she's thinks that they are off their meds; what I think of them would require me to flag this post adult). She recently received an e-mail complaining about President GW Bush's recess apointment of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Pryor had been nominated for this post some time ago, and his nomination has been stalled in the Senate; not allowed to come up for...

I suggest deleting secular marriages - replace with secular civil unions open to consenting adults, with the same extremely-hard-to-break-by-nonparticipant legal advantages as current marriages, and move as many of the financial benefits as prudent to the civil unions that are raising children. Certain financial benefits would still accrue to childless unions (inheritance, mainly), but I'm OK with that - death taxes strike me as bizarre; the government had their shot at the money while the per...

Gun-abolitionists have been trying for a number of years to destroy the firearms industry in this country by suing them into bankruptcy. Several states and the House of Representatives have passed legistation to limit this tactic. Now the Senate is considering a bill on the subject. Write your Senators and tell them to vote for S.1805.Thank you.

I just read the first comment to my post below, started to reply to it, and decided to make a blog entry instead. At this point, calling your senator doesn't matter - opponents of the bill attached a "poison-pill" amendment (extension of the Assault Weapons Ban), and the entire bill was killed to prevent the AWB from being extended. As for the rest of csuperman7's screed, does the manufacturer of any weapon (down to kitchen knives) bear responsibility when their product is being used ...

I'm going to list some of the reasons I am not only going to vote against Kerry (despite my numerous problems with President Bush's policies), but encourage as many people as possible to vote against him. I'm relying on the words of those who are much better writers that I. "That isn't enough. Based on everything I know about him now, I cannot in good conscience consider voting for him. I would rather vote for a candidate with known policies with which I disagree than for a candidate wh...

It sounds out there - the Saudis are raising oil prices and pulling out of the US currency markets to torpedo President Bush's re-election chances. But this is the kind of "conspiracy" theory that works. It isn't complex, it doesn't have a single point of failure, and doesn't require people to act out of character. I've been wondering why gasoline prices have been slowly drifting up over the past year, even though the Iraqi oil production has been rising. As far as I know, Venezuela (the ...

I have a lapel button that someone bought me as a gift a while back that says, "If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?" Apparently, in Australia, that option too is being shut down. I can hear people say "Oh, but it's a sword, what purpose does it have for someone to own?" Well, my wife owns one sword right now, and wants to get a second, and the reason she wants them is as works of art. I own a couple myself, for the same reason. But banning legal ownership swords because a few people hav...

What I want to know, is why this administration DID NOTHING when I lost my job ... in 1999!

I'm on a linking frenzy today. I have an uncontrollable urge to say "heh". Seriously folks - I'm beginning to think that we are seeing the opening of the Bush Rope Store - 6 foot lengths, easy financing, oak tree thrown in free. And the Dem's are queuing up.

I don't have much to add to this.

As should be obvious by perusing my archives, I would rather have President Bush win in November than Senator Kerry (or Nader, for that matter). So I am immensly cheered whenever Senator Kerry makes a verbal misstep or otherwise stumbles in public (witness his recent dissembling about the ownership of the family SUV in Montana, the kerfuffle surrounding his Vietnam service etc). However, on the other hand, President Bush doesn't seem to be doing all that well himself. Admittedly, I'm spend...

Seymour Hersh is the man who brough the prisoner abuse scandal to the front pages of most major newspapers, and the TVs of America. He is the prime mover for the scandal. But who is he? Check the linked post for more info. (I hope my readers have figured out some of my views by now...)

I'm not happy about President Bush, but unless something changes with the Kerry campaign, I'll be voting for him this Fall. Glenn Reynolds managed to touch some of the reason why. He's the Anti-Bush. But that's not a policy statement. He can't do everything that Bush didn't do, and the policies that I know he wants to undo, I don't want undone. (Tax cuts, and "internationalization" of the Iraq effort. The UN is being proven again and again as a corrupt, inept, club for dictators; an...

Who is taking sides?Well, other than me