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Many’s the time I’ve been mistaken And many times confused Yes, and I’ve often felt forsaken And certainly misused Oh, but I’m all right, I’m all right I’m just weary to my bones Still,
Read More »Har!
Also: If I ever meet Jon Stewart in person, I will fall on the ground and kiss his feet. And this transcript from his appearance on today’s Crossfire is just a small part of
Read More »Kerry, Part Five: National Service
America is built on simple principles: Everyone should have the same opportunity to get ahead, and everyone has a responsibility to give something back… So begins the paper outlining John Kerry’s plan for a
Read More »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 »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
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