Month: October 2007

Costa Rica, CAFTA, and the Lobbyists

Well, the Costa Ricans passed CAFTA, and that’s a shame. It may well mean the end of universal health coverage for Costa Ricans like the family I stayed with last summer. That family makes about $160 a month, plus a couple...

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Katie Couric and the Banality of Evil

I have never seen Katie Couric do the news and I never saw her do the Today show. I know what she looks like and I know a lot of people don’t care for her and don’t think she is a serious journalist. I don’t...

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The Terrorists Have Won

    Since 9/11, America has lost not only the war on terror, but America itself. Before a shot was fired in Afghanistan or Iraq, the terrorists had won. The terrorists won when we allowed this administration and...

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iraqi rivals make peace

two of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite leaders agreed on Saturday to end a bitter rivalry in a bid to end months of armed clashes and assassinations in the oil-rich south that have threatened to spread into a wider conflict....

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Open Thread

I actually paid for Times Select and still didn’t bother to read Dowd, Friedman, Krugman, Herbert, or any of the other columnists at the New York Times. But now that the content is free again I went over and took a look....

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