These girls sound like they are trouble... some bad dudettes.

The cheerleaders had reportedly been a menace long before the condom-store episode, according to the report. When one teacher told a squad member to quit chatting on her cell phone in class, the girl replied, "Shut up, I'm talking to my Mom." On a separate occasion, she offered this response to the teacher's reprimand: "Pull your panties out of a wad." "Gang members were nothing compared to these girls," the teacher told Jones. "They believe they cannot be touched." The girls were apparently just as ornery in their cheerleading activities, leading five coaches to quit in the last three years. The principal's daughter flipped off one former coach. But instead of kicking the daughter off the squad, school administrators allowed her to quit so she could try out the following year. After the incident, the coach told Jones, Theret "tried to ruin my life over this. I was called a liar, crazy, on meds."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16441559/site/newsweek/

How do you know that? Because Bill O'Reilly told you so?

Really. You are so gullilble. I bet you don't know your left from your right. Here is a left leaning publication, OK?

http://www.themilitant.com/index.shtml

I wouldn't even call Amy Goodman at Democracy Now left leaning. I'd call it news without bias.

"But I stand by my statement that it is naive for anyone to think that anyone or any news source is unbiased."

... or too young to remember actual news during the era of the Fairness doctrine. And even that wasn't perfect, but compared to today? These kids wouldn't recognize it if it bit them on the ass.

...isn't too far to the left for the Carlyle Group. They like his money just fine.

Left-wing boogeyman, indeed. people who believe this tripe are rubes. Heh.

Only 3 letters published since 4/25 and two of them on this thread today. Very odd. He could just be one of the Kool-aid drinkers slowly trying to detox.

"According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period, and was the eighth most cited scholar in any time period."

He's ubiquitous in the media everywhere but here in the U.S. Why is that? That's a bit odd, too. We get Anna Nicole and Paris Hilton and idiot trolls like Shooter.

I think you should read little m's letter again. And again. In fact you should "endeavor to persevere to continue to read it" until it sinks in. Other than that, I will accept that you are probably young. If you are under 45, you are young. Also, Yellow Dog makes a good point about the distinction between bias and slant. And please tell me why you never see the eighth most cited scholar in the world, in any time period, on your TV screen. Ever.

The real danger posed by Pinochet is evidenced by your observations. They are reasonable and accurate. He was a "ready for prime time" right-wing dictator. Family style. I prefer they remain off the program all together. Don't you?

There is also the small matter of a CIA inspired and assisted coup d'état that deposed a democratically-elected President in another country.

Yeah, I was going to call that nonsense out, too. lazy trollnut's still trying to use the New York Times as their Booga Booga scare monster of the left. How face-in-the-mud stupid can it get than that after what all has come down?

Soros is probably politically to the right of Warren Buffet. He's a convenient boogeyman for any number of reasons unrelated to his actual politics.

Only a wingnut like Milton Friedman could call Richard Nixon the "most socialist of American presidents". And yet, he did. These people are sick. At some point you make so many right turns and you are going left, or around in circles. If they started talking about how far to the left Reagan was, I'd have worried. In fact, they have had to double back down the trail. I intend they should keep on going, past the "socialist" Nixon and back to Eisenhower. Truman, even. What the hell. Why not FDR?

President Bush’s name was invoked by Republican candidates only once during yesterday’s 90-minute debate, in response to a question about Scooter Libby’s pardon. By comparison, Ronald Reagan’s name was cited 19 times.

The breakdown:

Ronald Reagan mentions: 19 times

Giuliani: 5

Romney: 3

Brownback: 1

Hunter: 2

Huckabee: 1

Thompson: 3

McCain: 3

Gilmore: 1

George W. Bush mentions: 1 time

MATTHEWS: Let me go to, Senator — do you think Scooter Libby should be –

BROWNBACK: Let the legal process move forward, and I’d leave that up to President Bush. And I think he could go either way on that.

Both Jeb Bush and George Herbert Walker Bush were invoked by the candidates as often as George W. Bush.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/04/reagan-bush-debate/

I understand your point. I'm certainly not able to speak with authority on the matter, where you, as a Chilean, are. Here's the deal. You don't judge us by Bush, or because we allowed Bush to come to power here, in a coup of sorts, and we won't judge you by Pinochet, or because he did that, with our help, to you and your country. Deal? And you are correct. As dictators go, he was pretty mild. Hayek approved of him, no doubt.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

--Friedrich Hayek, 1981 interview in El Mercurio

Remember the fun you had as a teenager snapping rat tails (rolled up wet towels) at the smaller kids in the locker room after football or baseball practice? Tweety still enjoys that.

You should worry?

At least Pinochet didn't commit the greatest strategic blunder in Chilean military history. Not to mention losing an entire city while strumming a guitar. And at least he was a real General and Generalissimo.