Current national and global events.
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, July 21, 2005. When we say the president names a nominee who then gets the appointment following the advice and consent of the Senate, we mean everyone from the Cabinet and a few top Executive Branch positions to all the federal judges. So far as those who work in […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, July 18, 2005. Some Rogers officials are getting nervous about the growth of apartments in their fair city. They are candid enough to worry aloud about any resulting increase in crime, not to mention increase in poorer people and lower surrounding property values. If I were just to discuss […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, July 7, 2005: No need to add excessive verbiage about the London mass-transit attacks. Suffice it to say that America shouldn’t forget the Madrid attacks, which have been scarcely mentioned in the news media today. This sort of terrorism has an evening effect. Whether it is thousands killed in […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, July 1, 2005: In this morning’s papers, we read again of local officials asking people to informally not waste water, before conservation steps are ordered. Again, they say there is no shortage, just that it’s summer and yada, yada, yada. In previous summers, though, there have been no mummers […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, May 22, 2005. So … if the International Red Cross says some Americans in some way desecrated the Koran in front of Iraqis, Afghans or other Muslims (with comparable incidents already reported months ago as part of the Abu Ghraib initial and follow-up reports — and now somehow forgotten) […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, May 12, 2005: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the whole body should confirm the nomination of cranky John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Comedians and humorists need easy material. Not to mention cartoonists. -30-