Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:
OCR on Cox: Cox says he's out of politics. No run on DiFi?
OCR, LAT: Boxer and Feinstein slime and whine on Bolton in Bush Plans to Bypass Senate, Appoint Bolton. Bush needs to make this recess appointment NOW and get beyond this nonsense and liberal Democratic obstructionism. Terrific piece on this from earlier by month by Victor Davis Hanson: Drowning in bitterness, Democrats need new strength to confront GOP tide.
LAT, OCR on Disney crash: 'You could hear it coming'.
OCR: Big bucks bypass Anaheim, Placentia. No MagLev either. Lead:
Anaheim officials requested $245 million for a transportation hub for trains, buses and taxis - and got nothing. Placentia did get $39 million to separate railroad tracks and roads...the city had asked for $225 million.
Ed Royce voted against this $286 billion transportation bill, saying his "concern is that California bears the brunt of traffic congestion due to increasing international trade through our ports, yet this was not the way dollars were handed out," but he failed to mention the huge impact illegal immigrants have on our roadway infrastructure.
And a completely different slant on the lead by the Left Angeles Times touting every treehugger's favorite vehicle: Solo in a Hybrid? Merge Left. Also, "California will receive roughly $23 billion for highway projects — a return of about 92 cents for every dollar in gas taxes the state sends to Washington." Hybrid nonsense also previously covered here at the Blog in Car Fooling and Social Mis-Engineering.
LAT, DP, OCR on sentencing delays: Report ordered in Haidl penalties. Other court action: Judge clears way for UCI suits & Judge allows Jaramillo lawsuit.
OCR on SCE: Supply: How to feed a hungry region. Strange lead by Galvin: "Are you ready for socialized power?" And the accompanying sister story: Demand: How to feed a hungry region.
HBI on new challenger to Dianne Harman, Silva for 67th AD: Marine challenges 2 to an Assembly race.
Business Wire press release on a small under-the-radar OCTA project: OCTA's Tuesday Launch of Extreme Traffic Makeover Will Improve Traffic in 90 Days. Hooray for the bees.
OC Weekly draws a dubious parallel: Maybe It’s Just Us.
LBPT on Rohrabacher's veto of the Patriot Act: Unpatriotic? Hardly.
Kudos to the OC Weekly for comparing the Shelton's strange cartoon to Der Sturmer. I, too, was taken aback by Shelton and, frankly, am surprised that no letters condemning Shelton appeared in the Register. Did no one write - hard to believe - or did the Register choose not to publish these letters?
Posted by: Hanna | July 31, 2005 at 08:32 PM