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Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor

Today they're talking about.... 

Questions on the economy?
Bush and Kerry discussed it some in the last debate, although probably not so much as it deserves. Some bloggers, like Kevin Drum, are pointing out Bush's claim that "Non-homeland, non-defense discretionary spending was raising at 15 percent a year when I got into office. And today it's less than 1 percent..."

Want the facts on the economy and the deficit? The Congressional Budget Office has lots and lots of charts showing where the economy is headed. Like this one, Titled 'Spending Growing out of Control'

"Nuisance"?
CNN reports that the Bush campaign will be focusing on a line in a NY Times Magazine story on John Kerry, in which he says he hopes one day terrorism will return to the 'nuisance' level it was before 9/11.
(In the article, Kerry discusses his immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks: "You know, my instinct was, Where's my gun?'' Kerry told me. ''How do you fight back? I wanted to do something.")


Human rights:
An award from Libya to....wait for it....Hugo Chavez! ...." for resisting "imperialism" and being a champion of the poor."
Always interesting to see how things are viewed in other parts of the world....


And:
The U.S. Civil Rights Commission has issued a report on The Bush administration's performance on Civil Rights. A 181-page PDF report, which says: Not good.

posted by liz at 10:12 AM