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By Petrarch | Feb 7, 2008 |
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Yesterday would have been Reagan's 97th birthday; and so we ask, does anyone wear Reagan's mantle today?
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By Petrarch | Feb 5, 2008 |
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Americans complain about the lack of true leaders and of today's poll-driven politicians. But if American is a democracy, isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work?
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By Hobbes | Feb 1, 2008 |
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The only thing that gets a Congresscritter's attention is losing an election.
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By Hobbes | Jan 31, 2008 |
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When Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the west, he took American and British missionaries along. In addition to translating, they also helped with education.
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By Hobbes | Jan 30, 2008 |
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This video just gave us the best news we've heard out of the Middle East in a long, long time -- Iraqis are beginning to laugh at their leaders.
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By Petrarch | Jan 24, 2008 |
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George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.
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By Petrarch | Jan 18, 2008 |
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The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.
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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.