Jobs report yesterday shows increase in job creation even following hurricanes in south. Not quite the 100,000 that are necessary to maintain unemployment reductions, but frankly unemployment went down anyway to 5%. Why did it go down? Are less people wanting to work? Is entrepreneurism creating opporunities in such abudnance that we don't need to create quite some many jobs?

So have you been watching the news coverage of Bush's trip to Latin Amercia? Looks like this Chavez wants to join Hussein on the list of "former" leaders spending time as jail house cook!
Read Newsday coverage.

Not surprisingly, many Americans find it difficult to fathom the "consequences" for them of the president's efforts to help create jobs and reduce poverty in poorer nations that share our hemisphere.
They are too concerned about gasoline that costs $2.50 a gallon and loss of jobs in their own country to fret over the economic woes of their Latin American neighbors.
And the American news media know it.
Therefore, rather than focus on the tedium of dull meetings that drone on about lifting trade barriers, reducing agricultural subsidies and reviving stalled trade talks, they have been aiming their cameras and microphones toward the protest demonstrations staged by groups seeking the spotlight.

Wouldn't it be sad if the French had to ask for our assistance in getting Islamic fundametalists to stop fomenting riots on the streets of Paris?

I'll agree with the anti-Iraq people that it's time to say when we want to leave Iraq. We should set a deadline for Iraq to have a 250,000 man army, another 250,000 police, and close the Syrian and the Jordanian borders with their own people. For democracy to work, they need some time to figure out what they are without our interference or fundametalists inteference. So, make a list of demands, put a timeline to it, and let's drop to "advisors" role in three years and "ally" role in five years. Read update on new offensive along Syrian border.

Looks like Judge Alito will be confirmed by not until 2006. The democrats have counted noses and know that Bush will get this one through. They used their influence to at least postpone the hearings until January. Now the question becomes will they fight Bush's Federal Reserve nomination? They are running out of things to complain about for the 2006 elections. Will they hang their entire election on Iraq? Read Indy Star update on Alito

Want to watch a fun political race this year? Senator from New Jersey John Corzine is running for governor. He had a pretty comfortable lead until his ex-wife came out publicly against him. Read article and pay particular attention to the comment "he let down his family and now he'll let down New Jersey"

Where will we go with federal reserve policy? Read article about future direction suggested by Greenspan comments and recent productivity increases that were higher than predicted. It is also reported that Greenspan called for spending cuts to match any long-term tax cuts. I would agree that the republican congress and Bush have allowed spending at the federal level to stay too high during a time of tax cutting. Let the people have their money, and don't try and stoke the economy by spending more government money which has a diminished return on investment. I'd say that a real person gets $1.00 of impact from expenditure, the government gets 50 cents impact on the same dollar spent.

So bloggers beware just like Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, if you say what the despotic authorities don't want to hear you may lose your nominal freedoms in the short term for the good of free speech which will pay off in the longrun. In Libya a guy talks on his blog against the government and now he's doing jail time under trumped up charges. Read the story and feel like doing something about it, then email the Libyan ambassador.

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