Monthly Archives: February 2008

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

A Window on Terrorism

Last spring a small group from Macon (and a few other southern cities) went to Israel and we went to a school in Dimona, site of the recent bombing. Shlomo Ben Asher was our guide. Sue Halpern, one of our

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Surge Results and Demon Bush

Al Qaeda is almost finished in Iraq. In an article in the Washington Post by Amit Paley we note in 2007 the U.S. military has killed 2,400 suspected members and captured 8,800. They have been totally driven out of Baghdad

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Reducing the Deficit with Tax Cuts

from Gary Meyers www.TMGwealthmanagement.com In my opinion, dealing with our debt crises should be of paramount importance. It is irrefutable that tax increases cause a subdued economy and greater deficits. This has happened 100% of the time. It is also

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The Difference Between People and Statistics

as noted in the OpinionJournal.com – From an Feb. 4 interview with Thomas Sowell in FrontPageMagazine.com on his new book, “Economic Facts and Fallacies”: Q: What’s an example of a fallacy from your book?A: One is the income gap between

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Democracy at Its Best

This campaign has been interesting. Many pundits from both ends of the spectrum have predicted this campaign wrong. A few months ago even my most conservative friends had predicted a Hillary landslide. Now it appears that even her party’s nomination

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Why Obama and McCain?

From Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe article today: The mystery in the voting booth “there is no correlation in the exit polls so far between the issues people think are important and the candidates they vote for.” Among Republicans

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Banning Flatulence

A Camden school has had a severe problem with 7th and 8th grade boys farting intentionally. Perhaps instead of suspension,they could make it a competitive sport. I am not sure what the trophy would look like.

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McCain

The right wing bloggers maintain an animosity for McCain because he has compromised on key legislative issues like immigration and political speech. Yet it appears that he has compromised on these issues nearly as much as George Bush. It was

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Clarifying Fascism

Jonah Goldberg’s book, Liberal Fascism, does a great job untangling the false intermingling of fascism and Nazism, and the false distance between fascism and communism. Italian fascism was quite popular in the US. Before the Nazi’s wreaked their havoc fascism

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The Myth of the Perfect Conservative

Jeff Jacoby understands that the perfect is the enemy of the good in his most recent column in the Boston Globe. A telling excerpt: Conservatives bristle at the thought of a Republican president who might raise income and payroll taxes.

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