Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 5810 Editor's Choice: 5
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Here ya go, Mona...
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some people may die because they can't afford their medication, or go hungry because they can't afford to buy both food and meds. It's not the FDA, but your freedom loving, liberty lusting fellow travellers like kdwmson and Shooter. Nice people. At least "poor" people in America are "fat and have free schools". It's not government per se, Mona. It's the ass clowns that manage to "infiltrate it" and fuck it up on purpose. What kind of propagandist rag has direct links to The Heritage Institute and Club for Growth? Radical extremist ideologues.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705080110may08,1,5591207.story?track=rss
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday effectively killed a measure that would have let Americans buy prescription medicines from foreign suppliers, which sponsors said could have saved consumers billions of dollars.
By a 49-40 vote, senators approved a provision requiring the government to certify that imports are safe -- a step the Bush administration is unlikely to take. The amendment, offered by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), was seen as a major victory for the pharmaceutical industry.
Cochran's caveat "is clearly a poison pill," said Sen. Bernard Sanders, a Vermont Independent and a strong supporter of allowing imports.
The action came during consideration of a major overhaul of the government's troubled drug safety system.
The drug import measure, tacked onto the larger bill, was opposed by the pharmaceutical industry, which argues that pharmacies risk being flooded with counterfeit drugs. And the White House, which also opposes importation, had threatened a veto of the drug safety bill if it eased restrictions.
That put the Senate's Democratic majority in a bind: Many favor direct drug importation, but the amendment threatened to stymie a reform of the Food and Drug Administration that is considered must-pass legislation. So some Democrats straddled the issue by voting for the drug-import amendment but also for a proviso requiring the government to certify that imports are safe.
"Today is a day of lost opportunity," said Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), author of the import proposal.
If it became law, U.S. pharmacies would be allowed to import prescription drugs produced in FDA-licensed facilities in other developed countries.
Dorgan accused the pharmaceutical industry of wanting to dictate prices to U.S. consumers.
"Yes, we have price controls in America," he said. "Not government price controls, but price controls by the pharmaceutical industry."
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There are two kinds of poverty in America
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When we eliminate the first (kdwmson), we can attend to the second. I use the term "eliminate" in the strongest most robust sense in relation to the former case. Here are some "poor" Americans. You will notice they not fat. They are all white and I'd wager most of them vote Republican.
http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-039.html
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So true...
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Any neoconservative accused of wrongdoing is, by definition, innocent and wrongfully persecuted. The real criminals are always the prosecutors, the investigators, and the accusers."
and one tiny typo...
"And even when a noeconservative is demonstrated to be guilty"
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Tortoise...
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You may, in fact, be correct. But Abrams did not cut a deal because he was innocent and couldn't afford to go to trial. That kind of plea bargaining is for poor Americans.
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Nope...
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not correct, about conviction, but it wasn't a felony he copped to, although the charges were felonies.
Instead, Abrams entered into a plea agreement that ultimately led to a conviction without imprisonment on two misdemeanors of withholding information from Congress.
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Perhaps it's you who belongs on some kind of medication...
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you are obsessed with counting such things. It sounds like OCD to me. For clarity, and as a result of his legal training, Glenn's repeated use of the term "neoconservative" is appropriate and justified. We could call you something else. What would you prefer? Traitors? Criminals? UnAmericans. I prefer "scumbag" but Glenn doesn't write like I speak.
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delusions of grandeur
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephantman... So the left is finding out that some of these fights are being played out in a new paradigm. Wherein the NYT and the major networks and Europe will be challenged by the right and the new media world.
You definitely belong on medication. Risperidone for the psychosis and Depo-Provera so you don't breed.
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Elapantman's "New World Order"?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Wolfowitz's advisers are "jumping off the ship at this point," said Steven Schneck, head of the politics department at Catholic University in Washington. "When the inner circle is starting to quit, it is a sign they think it is starting to go down."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/050807dnintwolfie.26678ed.html
I don't know how long I'd give Wolfie, but he's history.
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What's particularly interesting
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]is the attempt to deny that these persons are even neocons, which is absolutely ludicrous in Conrad Black's case.It was only a few years ago that you would read articles claiming that "Neocon" was a perjorative term used by anti-semites ot that they didn't really exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative#Criticism_of_the_term_.22neoconservative.22
That's a victory of sorts. They are all denying the appellation these days. It's like members of the Nazi Party and S.S. all claiming that they were only loyal members of the Wehrmacht and actually hated Hitler and the Nazis.