What Else Is New?

Jobless rate continues to grow, reaching a 14-year low. (See The New York Times story.) Back in 1994, the Gingrich free trade revolution was sweeping into Washington, D.C., and we were about to discover the technology bubble. Windows 95 and the World Wide Web were a number of months in the offing. The economy was on the upswing. By January of 2001, the new Bush administration, after orchestrating a theft of the White House by way of Florida and the Supreme Court, would inherit a flourishing economy and a balanced budget. George W. Bush swore he had no interest in "nation building," and history would prove this correct. The mission of the free trade advocates has never been "nation building," their interests are in nation destruction. (In the tenth consecutive month of job losses, another 240,000 have disappeared.)

This Day in History:

Forty-eight years ago today, John F. Kennedy was pronounced the winner of the 1960 presidential election, which was likely stolen from Richard Nixon by the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, the same mayor who would eight years later unleash a police riot against demonstrators during the Democratic National Convention.