Archive for May, 2007
Neapolitans are knee-deep in refuse this week./AP photo
Naples is buried in garbage. Never mind that this ancient city has survived war, conquest, disease and natural disasters for millenium. Nowadays, Italy’s most populous city is overcome by an increasingly familiar phenomena: political indecision. Today, a New York Times article describes the situation:
As trash dumps [...]
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For the love of country
The author’s son and friends share a laugh during basic training.
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Okay, maybe “utter success” is a (big) stretch. But a funny thing happens when members of Congress actually craft a solution to the seemingly impossible: they earn the confidence of thier countrymen and women. (Nancy Pelosi are you listening?) A New York Times/CNN poll today found broad public support for Senate’s immigration bill, [...]
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Satirist Mark Januzelli’s rendition of economic policy solving.
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…so observes New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks, when cross-referencing the Founding Father’s reverence for virtue and civic duty with the bill’s portal to good citizenship. He writes:
Aspiring immigrants would learn, from an early age, what sort of person the U.S. is looking for. In a break from the current system, this bill awards [...]
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From the Deseret Morning News, a mainstream paper with consistently conservative and well-reasoned opinion pieces:
Harry Truman coined the phrase “Do nothing Congress.” But if the wobbly coalition holds between liberal and conservative lawmakers and keeps the new immigration reform bill on track, this could be the “Git ‘er done Congress.”
Few social issues bedevil American politicians, [...]
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John McCain didn’t earn the nickname “Maverick” for playing nice at patty cake. Instead, he earned his firebrad reputation by taking on the status-quo (aka: political safety zone) to do what’s right for America. This time, McCain is facing down the contentious issue of immigration reform. He’s moving forward now, despite the risks [...]
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As part of an interview for US News and World Report, Thomas J. O’Halloran photographed Lt. Comdr. John S. McCain on April 24, 1973. The photo was taken one month after McCain’s release from a five-year stay at the “Hanoi Hilton.” Note how little his intensity has changed in the thirtysome years since.
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Austin Powers be advised: in a review of Tuesday’s debate, Time Magazine puts a dynamic John McCain on top of the presidential heap.
Sold bipartisanship, hard choices, fiscal discipline, anti-torture, and experience — all his aces.
My thoughts exactly…On a related note: the John McCain Express is steadily steaming into the hearts and minds [...]
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McCain stands above the fray
John McCain alone took the high ground during tonight’s debate.
Not because he’s nearly cracked-the-nut of immigration reform by working with the otherwise rancorous Democrats.
Not because he views fiscal responsibility as equal parts a tax and spending issue.
And, not because he’d rather lose this election than give in to national white-knuckledness and surrender in Iraq.
No. [...]
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