Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Cat’s Out of the Bag Already

The Washington Times has an article up this morning, written by Bill Gertz, titled Iran close to nuclear suspension.  Fine.

It’s the very first paragraph, though, that made me laugh.

Iran is close to an agreement that would include a suspension of uranium enrichment but wants the deal to include a provision that the temporary halt be kept secret, according to Bush administration officials.

So much for the secret.

Posted by John Venlet on 09/26 at 07:16 AM
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Guns, Rhetoric, Pot Kettle Black

The New York Times has an editorial up, today, titled Where Congress Is Soft on Criminals, wherein the editorial writers decry a proposal upcoming before the House that, in the editorial writers’ eyes, will “hobble” the federal government’s power to control the sellers of firearms.  Specifically, the licensing of said firearms dealers.

The second paragraph of the linked editorial, referencing the House’s upcoming discussion on the subject, begins this way,

The rhetoric of the approaching debate…

and then slides, unabashedly, into the grandiloquent proclamations which the editorial writers wring their hands over will be occuring in the House.

...will undoubtedly invoke sportsmen’s rights, but the real issue is the rights of sociopaths and terrorists to make future purchases at their friendly local AK-47 dealer. The House proposal, in fact, would have stopped federal agents from ever revoking the license of Lou’s Loans, the Pennsylvania dealer that sold battlefield weapons to one of the co-conspirators in the 1993 assault on the World Trade Center.

I’m wondering if the NYT editorial writers are suffering from hysteria?  Which, just by coincedence, is also written about today in the NYT in an article titled Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images Say Yes

Posted by John Venlet on 09/26 at 06:48 AM
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