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Kerry, Part Four: The International AIDS Crisis
Today we look at Kerry’s AIDS position paper, and as usual, our candidate talks a great game. In a sense, one could almost argue that these guys shouldn’t even have a position on AIDS—as
Read More »Kerry, Part Three: On Farmers and Rural Communities
I’ve been trying to get these out once a week, but this one took awhile, because Kerry’s “Helping Farmers and Rural Communities” position paper name-drops a lot of bills, and I had to check
Read More »Kerry, part two: mad cow
I ended my last look at Kerry’s position papers by saying next time we’d examine his five-point plan for mad cow disease. I bet you thought I was kidding. But no. In politics, truth
Read More »Clusterfuck
We had no support, no training whatsoever, and I kept asking my chain of command for certain things, rules and regulations, and it just wasn’t happening. — Staff Sgt. Chip Frederick So says one
Read More »Kerry on Education
“This is groundbreaking legislation that enhances the federal government’s commitment to our nation’s public education system, dramatically reconfigures the federal role in public education, and embraces many of the principles and programs that I
Read More »Meantime
I’ve been trying to collect all of Kerry’s position papers (he doesn’t make it easy–check out his stupid site)–and go over them with a fine-toothed highlighter. I think I’m most of the way through.
Read More »Manifest Density
So, as I may have mentioned before, I picked up a copy of Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies a couple of weeks ago. I did this out of annoyance, mainly–it seemed like the book
Read More »Why I hate Wal-Mart
To paraphrase Yogi Berra, if Sam Walton were alive today, he’d be spinning in his grave. He tried to instill a small-town retailing ethic in his company. Snake eyes on that roll, Sam. It
Read More »The FCC won’t let me be…
“I have some reservations with the FCC going after performers.” These are the words of—holy fuck!—FCC overlord, nepotism beneficiary, and Spongebob Squarepants fanboy Michael Powell, in reference to legislation currently being pushed through Washington’s
Read More »Hail to the pompous ass
BUSH: Let me ask you a couple of questions. Who is the AP person? A: I am. BUSH: You are? A: Sir, in regard to — BUSH: Who are you talking to? A: Mr.
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