Other folks active on this site were also active during the Vietnam War era, and can correct me if they feel that I am unfairly characterizing what I’m trying apply from that experience to today’s situation. Anyway, I’m writing because I feel that the content of the debate with respect to our involvement in Iraq reflects many people trying to make distinctions that seem inappropriate to me. In the earlier period we could be grateful that there were so...
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Registering Workers!
My idea of the right way of practicing bipartisan politics is for the left to come up with proposals that the right hates, but will hate voting against more than they hate the bill that they’re forced to support. Here is a proposal that seems to me to have some merit on several levels, and that the left will love, while we enjoy watching the right forced to go along. Businesses don’t like being under threat of invasion by...
Who wants this kind of health care?
There is a “universal health care” proposal being looked at in the Senate right now that is being sponsored by a bi-partisan coalition that includes Bennett (UT), Wyden (OR), Trent Lott and Lamar Alexander from Rep. leadership, Grassley (IA), Gregg (NH), Stabenow (MI), and Crapo (ID). What I know about it is contained in a column I found by Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post. While it’s similar to all such creations being looked at this election year, it...
Globalization
I’m an unabashed fan of globalization, at least in concept. At the same time I try to keep an open mind regarding how well it’s being executed. The point being, of course, that in striving for a more intelligent mode of managing Planet Earth, nothing will really be possible if both peace and prosperity cannot be promoted. Sphere: Related Content
Firearms Rights and a Constitutional Convention
Smart money says that the current SCOTUS will uphold the D.C. Circuit at least to the extent of holding that the Second Amendment creates an individual right. I’m thinking another 5 to 4, with Kennedy doing the writing and maybe trying to “legislate” some sort of a balancing process. They’re too conservative not to strike the D.C. law, but probably will end up too afraid to actually send us as far down the road as the Circuit Court got...
The Rest of the Story
Isn’t it odd how the bigger story sometimes just sits inside a small story? One reason why I’ve maintained my subscription to Business Week Magazine for so many years is because just that seems to happen so regularly over there. Sphere: Related Content
John Edwards’ Approach to Economic Issues
It took a small item in my January 28, 2008 issue of Business Week magazine to do it but I finally really get where John Edwards was coming from in his approach to economic issues affecting the middle class. There is nothing automatically shocking, I suppose, about the British being more affluent now than we are, but the fact that it has never happened in my life time still makes it a little hard for me to get my...
Electability: Vote Tallies for Shits and Giggles
Just for fun, another meaningless exercise on another routine Saturday morning. CNN runs a web site which holds itself out as a place where 2008 Presidential Primary results can be found in a variety of formats. I’m sure that inquiring minds want to know, so I simply applied my calculator to what I found there (candidates still in the race): CANDIDATE VOTES* CAUCUS** SEN. CLINTON 1,438,738 6,092 SEN. OBAMA 968,904 5,713 SEN. MCCAIN 1,186,778 21,210 MR. ROMNEY 1,078,510 52,598...
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