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By Will Offensicht  |  Jan 16, 2008  |   
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                    Why can't we Americans buy cheap cars?  The cheapest car in the US costs about $20,000, about 8 times the cost of Tata's offering.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Jan 11, 2008  |   
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                    Some idealists suggest that election campaigns be paid for by the Treasury -- taxpayers would pay for campaigns intended to elect people we don't like.  In fact, we DO have public campaign funding but nobody wants to admit it.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Jan 10, 2008  |   
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                    A president is supposed to be emotionally stable, not a weeping willow.
                 
            
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By Hobbes  |  Jan 1, 2008  |   
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                    Here, we propose some resolutions for the major candidates to consider.
                 
            
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By Demosthenes  |  Dec 31, 2007  |   
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                    The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Dec 21, 2007  |   
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                    With fifty states in the union, we have fifty different laboratories in which to test different approaches to a problem.
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Dec 19, 2007  |   
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                    Once again, lawbreakers get a nice fat Christmas present, while the longsuffering voters get "nothing but hooks and some wire."
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Dec 18, 2007  |   
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                    Don't regulate campaign finance; just require disclosure.
                 
            
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By Hobbes  |  Dec 17, 2007  |   
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                    Reuters reports trouble at the North Pole.
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Dec 14, 2007  |   
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                    Can we have a little dignity please?