Any time a presidential candidate follows the phrase "loving your country" with the word "must," a shiver runs through me, and not in the Chris Matthews way. Here’s Barack Obama yesterday, as part of his week-long patriogasm in the run-up to Independence Day:loving your country shouldn’t just mean watching fireworks on the Fourth of July. Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it.First of all, as reason columnist Greg Beato has amply documented, it’s getting harder and harder for happiness-pursuing Americans to watch their own damned fireworks, thanks to politicians of the nanny-boo Chicago school. Second of all, who died and made this guy the arbiter of what "loving your country must mean"? He’s been musting all week, too:[P]atriotism must, if it is to mean anything, involve the willingness to sacrifice - to give up something we value on behalf of a larger cause. [...]For the rest of u...
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Bush Heralds US Bail-Out PackageSource:
http://www.actualteam.com/?p=4501Post Date: 2008-10-05 03:10:40
12:10pm UK, Saturday October 04, 2008
America’s £397bn financial rescue package is the “beginning, not the end” of its long road back to economic security, the country’s political leaders have said.
President Bush signs the much-opposed bail-out package
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Majority of public has unfavorable view of health insurers.Source:
http://www.electionbid2008.com/?p=88191Post Date: 2008-03-04 15:20:35
Both President Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) advocate giving private insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations more power over Americans’ health care. But a new poll by USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation finds that the American public highly distrusts these groups, ranking them just above oil industry:
Ezra Klein responds, “Americans are pretty clear on their desire [...]...
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