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Sad. Tubbs Jones, 58, died at 6:12 p.m. after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function, spokeswoman Eileen Sheil said "Throughout the course of the day and into this evening, Congresswoman Tubbs Jones' medical condition declined," Sheil said in a statement from the clinic and Tubbs Jones' family. The liberal Democrat, first elected in 1998, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car in Cleveland Heights Tuesday night, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital in East Cleveland. Tags: stephanie tubbs jones (all tags)
feedburner.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

Obama Launches Character Attack Against McCain...Finally

The Obama campaign today held a conference call going after McCain for being "reckless." Greg Sargent has it over at TPM: In an apparent effort to regain the offensive, the Obama campaign launched a broad attack on McCain today, portraying him as reckless on foreign policy, a hot-head who's too willing to use force and not willing enough to apprise himself of facts on the ground before urging military action. On a conference call with reporters just now, senior Obama foreign policy adviser Susan Rice argued that there is "a pattern here of recklessness" when it comes to McCain's approach to various national security issues. She pointed out that McCain reacted too quickly with "aggressive and bellicose" rhetoric on the Russia-Georgia crisis, and contrasted that with Obama's measured response to the dust-up. "There's something to be said for letting facts drive judgment," Rice said, also referring to McCain's desire to target Iraq right after 9/11. Also on the call, Richard Clarke a
feedburner.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

McCain Agrees That We Will Not Capture Bin Laden Without a Draft

Leaving aside the idea that illegal immigrants are enjoying the best medical care that this country can offer, this is a shocking admission from John McCain...from a town hall meeting earlier today: AUDIENCE MEMBER: Senator McCain I truly hope you get the opportunity to chase Bin Laden right to the gates of hell and push him in as you stated on your forum. I do have a question though. Disabled veterans, especially in this state, have horrible conditions [...] My son is an officer in the Air Force, and I am a vet and I was raised in a military family. I think it is a sad state of affairs when we have illegal aliens having a Medicaid card that can access specialist top physicians, the best of medical and our vets can't even get to a doctor. These are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the back. If we don't reenact the draft I don't think we will have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell. JOHN MCCAIN: Ma'am let me say that I don't disagree wit
dailykos.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

Senator Obama's Family Values or Charity Begins At Home

"...[a] beautiful boy with a rounded head". First Brothers. Gotta love 'em. My gosh, who can forget Billy Carter, amateur brewmeister and registered agent of Muammar Khaddafi. Or the exploits of the uber-talented Roger Clinton. And the Rodham brothers. You'd have to look far and wide to find a more egregious pair of asshats (though heaven forbid one of them may be flirting with a McCain endorsement.) In the past, though, the presence of non-traditional family members has brought trouble on presidents and presidential candidates through their actions. Now we have an instance of the mere presence of a sibling causing problems. His name is George Hussein Onyango Obama. He was discovered, so to speak, by the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for
feedburner.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

Blackwater: The Wal-Mart of the Military Industrial Complex?

David Isenberg, UPI [h/t MF] Say whatever you want about Blackwater Worldwide — and hardly a day goes by when something isn’t being said about it — it does not put all its eggs in one basket. Long before the company’s recent announcement that it would seek [...]
feedburner.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Glenn and Helen Show: Carla Howell on Abolishing Massachusetts' Income Tax

Like many states, Massachusetts has an income tax. But in Massachusetts, people are trying to do something about it. Libertarian activist Carla Howell organized an initiative in 2002 that would have abolished the state income tax. It got over 45%...
feedburner.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Reeducation-through-Labor of Grandmothers

There are a lot of people - of many nationalities - who would like us to forget the essential nature of China's one-party dictatorship. We owe something to the Associated Press, for a report that works against forgetting: BEIJING (AP) - Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration. The women were still at home three days after being officially notified they would have to serve a yearlong term of reeducation through labor, but were under surveillance by a government-backed neighborhood group, said Li Xuehui, the son of one of the women. Li said no cause was given for the order to imprison his 79-year-old mother, Wu Dianyuan, and her neighbor Wang Xiuying, 77. "Wang Xiuying is almost blind and disabled. What sort of reeducation through labor can she serve?" For the rest of the report, go here. It gets no better. Happy Olympi
nationalreview.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Three Registers

I think I mentioned that I did a public interview with Matthew Polenzani, the American tenor. He told me a joke once - and I asked him to repeat it before our audience. It tells us something about the economics of opera. (Did you ever ponder the subject?) Q.: What are the three registers of the male voice? A.: The bass register, the baritone register, and the cash register.
nationalreview.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

McCain's Homes

If owning so many houses (or being married to an heiress) is a problem, I do hope someone asks Barack why he was so enthusiastic about John Kerry in 2004.
nationalreview.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

A Conductor's Heroic Words

In an interview with the Corriere della Sera, Lorin Maazel blasted contemporary opera productions -- particularly those at the Salzburg Festival. He said, among other things, "I've had enough -- enough with weirdly provocative stagings by arrogant directors who think that innovation means boring the audience using public funds. . . . Often these directors are simply uneducated." My hero. On this general subject, if you'd like to see my review of Salzburg's Don Giovanni, go here. For a review of a much better production (Otello) -- go here. These reviews were published in the New York Sun. More good news, besides the Otello? For a review of the young Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz -- a phenom -- go here. And some mixed news? For reviews of the Vienna Philharmonic -- in a Bartók evening and a Brahms performance -- go here. I suppose the worst thing I ever saw in Salzburg (which is saying something) was a production of Der Freischütz (Weber's opera) -- perverse, anti-American, and
nationalreview.com Thursday, August 21, 2008

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