The World Around You

I just realized that I have been listed on the blog list of Alabama’s news source, AL.com. Check out the page and the other weblogs listed.

Hit & Run has a great note on the NY Times coverage of Bob Hope’s death. The obit was written by a man who died three years ago!

As James posts, the futures market for terrorism is defintely the story of the year. What in the world is our government thinking? Sounds like a crackpot scheme right out of the head of Don Rumsfeld, where everyone around said, “Sure, Mr. Secretary. That’s a wonderful idea. We’ll get right on it.”

Here’s the site for this market, that Wolfowitz has said in front of the Senate this morning will be disbanded, Policy Analysis Market.

We’re starting to hear the rumblings about Dick Armey coming to Alabama. As I said way back when, I can’t wait. Bring him on. I’ll be happy to give him a piece of my mind. According to this morning’s Mobile Register,

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey will be arriving in Alabama in early September to campaign against Gov. Bob Riley’s $1.2 billion tax plan, according to a member of a national conservative lobbying group.

The state chapter of Citizens for a Sound Economy, which advocates lower taxes and less government, held a meeting Monday night at the Marriott Hotel on Airport Boulevard, near Colonial Mall Bel Air.

The director of campaign operations for the national organization, Stephen Flaherty, discussed plans for defeating the tax plan and organizing a Mobile chapter with about 14 people.

Armey, who served 18 years as a GOP Texas congressman, is co-chairman of the lobbying group. Flaherty said Armey will probably spend a day or two in the state the week of Sept. 1, but he wasn’t sure if the co-chairman would make it to Mobile.