IRS
In today's USA Today, there is a news item about a church being investigated by the IRS. Apparently, a guest preacher gave an anti-war sermon in the church. Hmmmm. Should we have the IRS investigate World Harvest Church and Rod Parsley'spolitical speeches in support of Bush and against Democrats? Isn't that misuse of its tax-exempt status?
A New Poll
President Bush is not very popular in Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch has a new poll out that provides the dismal numbers. Here are some highlights of the poll:
In 2004, Bush’s approval was 49 percent in the Dispatch Poll immediately before the election; he won just under 51 percent of Ohio’s votes.
Now the approval rate is down to 37 percent...
and...
Other trends seem worrisome for Bush as well, such as Ohioans’ response to an oft-used measuring stick of the public’s mood: whether the country is on the right track or wrong track.
Seventy percent chose "wrong track," up from 56 percent a year ago....
and...
Currently, 66 percent disapprove of Bush’s Iraq performance, including 46 percent who do so "strongly" — almost four times the portion who support it "strongly."
Not a single demographic group — broken down by sex, age, race, education, income, geography, religion or union membership — supports Bush’s handling of the war. The closest he comes is among those with annual incomes between $80,000 and $90,000; they grant 49 percent approval. In contrast, only 9 percent of black respondents give a thumbs up to his war management.
THIS AND THAT
From the NY Times: At an intelligence conference in San Antonio last week, Mary Margaret Graham, a 27-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency and now the deputy director of national intelligence for collection, said the annual intelligence budget was $44 billion.
Fox News is in big trouble.
Shame on Wal-Mart for using illegal workers. I read somewhere yesterday that Wal-Mart worries about negative publicity when people GOOGLE Wal-Mart. Check here for what turns up. If Wal-Mart treated their employees and suppliers fairly, and followed labor laws, they would not need to worry.
On a more personal note-----Someone took my bumpersticker (THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH REPUBLICANS). Don't worry because I plan to order 2 new ones!!!!
