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Not Learning Their Lines and Bumping Into the Furniture

Democrats have never had much trouble from Republicans. Their Achilles heel has always been other Democrats.

A Hundred Thousand Dead Because of Carelessness

These hundred thousand Americans that friends and family bury every year were not killed in auto accidents. A home fire, tornado or other unexpected disaster didn’t do them in. For one reason or another, some as simple as a minor checkup and others as complicated as surgery, they came home from the hospital in a coffin.

The Terrorist State We Dare Not Name

The nation we dare not name is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. Bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south, with the Persian Gulf to its northeast and the Red Sea to its west. One could hardly find a more pivotal entity.

A Market Free of Regulation

The Portal Market--the dawn of a new investment vehicle for billionaires. And not a moment too soon.

What a great idea! Now the big-hitters can sell junk investments to each other and leave you and me alone. Or is it the other way? They’ll keep all the smooth sailing to themselves and turn you and me loose to navigate the stormy seas of regulated commerce.

The Ignorance and Stupidity of a Manhattan Mom

Here we go again, folks. The hate mongers are out there front and center, making sure no American child learns anything about the rest of the world. Moms are rallying to the barricades in this earnest stand against kids educations (even if it's not their kids).

British Petroleum (BP) Shames Itself With Green Ads and Disastrous Policy

I’ve written before about oil companies, chemical firms and pharmaceutical giants who grease the double-page spreads of magazines with ‘green-speak’ while they poison and flim-flam the public in the day-to-day reality of their business practices. It's a favorite subject of mine.

Lurita Doan, Buying for the Government at Highest Possible Prices

There’s an outfit called the General Services Administration (GSA) that’s been around since Harry Truman signed the legislation in 1949. It was organized to buy pencils and desks and ‘general services’ for the federal bureaucracy at the best possible price. Someone in the Congress thought that because the fed was a big buyer, it ought to get a good price.

Guilty or Innocent, Who the Hell Cares?

Am I Too Late for the Gonzales Death Penalty Fight?

I certainly hope not, but it's been four or five days and news gets old pretty quick. Alberto Gonzales, who never met a death-row inmate he wouldn’t put away in a heartbeat, has now given himself the ability to ‘fast-track’ executions through the Justice Department.

A Late Choice, Made Under Considerable Pressure, But Made Correctly

One of the inherent difficulties of a political system that appoints its own in every election is that it loses the talents of some very good people. Occasionally an FBI director is held over. Once in a while a CIA chief keeps his job, but it’s unusual.

George Bush Doesn’t Trust Americans

The Headline is Domestic Use of Spy Satellites To Widen and you’ll notice that no discussion of whether or not this is good or appropriate policy, is asked for. The President of the United States doesn’t trust his own citizens to judge his domestic spy program.