Month: February 2006

Pro Choice and the Base

A victory for Chuck Pennacchio, a pro choice Democrat, would give us two pro choice senators representing a predominantly pro choice state. Now before everyone assails me by saying that Sen. Specter isn’t really pro choice...

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Confessions of a Big Sister

There are a lot of serious diaries on B.T. this past few weeks. This may or may not be one of them! This coming week is my little sister’s birthday. She’ll be 49 – about 14 months younger than me.  AND...

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Bushco Sacrificing the National Parks?

Proposed revisions to the National Park Service management plan may allow commercial activity and increased recreational useage.  The many revisions remove some of the language arising from the original 1916...

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More on the Politics of Ports

I started looking into this DP World takeover of Britain’s Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). It appears that DP World’s only real competitor was a company from Singapore named Temasek...

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The Port Boondoggle

In Booman’s post The Politics of Ports, there are not a few comments regarding the relative importance of this story, and others trying to figure out why BushCo has gone to the veto wall to protect the deal. Right out...

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