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« Today's Reading List | Main | For Sale! » October 27, 2005Today's Reading ListThe War: Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters finds it curious, illogical and elitist that the New York Times favors keeping troops in Kosovo but wants them pulled from Iraq. He also has a good post looking at how Iraq's Sunnis are coming around. Politics: The Los Angeles Times looks at the debate over proposals to gut Colorado's highly successful Taxpayers Bill of Right, and why Colorado Gov. Bill Owens - who once was a big TABOR supporter - now has joined the Left to campaign against the measure, which restricts the growth of the state budget to a reasonable and measured pace. If Owens had national ambitions, he's destroyed them. For in-depth research on Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights and why Tennessee needs a similar provision, go here and here. ... Sen. Bill Frist is getting tough on illegal immigration. ... Nashville-area business people and academics like the President's nominee to replace Alan Greenspan. ... Bob Krumm looks at a political scandal and appearance of a cover-up. ... The Tennessean continues to dig into the legislative caucus that was serving as an unregulated and unaccountable conduit for PACs and lobbyists to funnel money to a small group of state legislators. ... Jeff Cornwall likes a new federal tax reform proposal - but says lobbyists and politicians are the big reasons why it has little chance of passing. ... More and more conservatives are coming out against the Miers nomination, Sports: The best team in the NHL's young season finally lost a game. ... Nashville is going to get a new ballpark for its Triple-A baseball team, an 11,000 seat Camden Yards knockoff that can't be expanded to accommodate a major league franchise, but will be financed over 30 years. Something to think about before you ratify this deal, Nashville politicians: Sometime in the next three decades, the Nashville area's population will top 2 million people - large enough to support an MLB franchise. The Media: A big announcement. Posted in Today's Reading List
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Here I go again. The Tennessean ran an AP story today by Thomas Wagner about the death toll reaching 2001. Gasp, he quoted only Sunni Arabs wishing the death toll would go higher. Not one Shia or Iraqi could be found in the whole country expressing sorrow for the American deaths. Yeah right. Surely the average American and Iraqi can see through this? Posted by: Kate Shanahan at October 27, 2005 9:11 AMFrist get tough on illegal immigration? I don't think so. On Hannity and Colmes Frist made it clear that border control would be tied to a guest worker program. That's 13-20 million at the stroke of a pen becoming legal. And it will be greater than that as indicated by the surge in illegal crossings last year when Bush uttered the words "guest worker". Read the comments to Frist's post. I don't think it's what he expected. And unfortunately those readers are going to be very disappointed by the final product. Frist is going to push the Bush agenda. That's why he needs 3 months to prepare his magic show. The headliner will be the illusion of border control while granting millions a spot at the American diner on our tab. Posted by: Rick Forman at October 27, 2005 9:39 AMPost a comment
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