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Published Letters: 1652
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Jebbie
[Read the article: Chris Matthews is right ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"build it and they will come."
A professor of economics wasn't altogether pleased when I offered that as the definition of Say's Law. ;-)
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somewhat off topic
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Although given the media is at the center of this column and the previous one... perhaps, no too far off topic.
Noted at TPM; The Politico has offered a fairly serious, We blew it in a piece they've put online.
Why reporters get it wrong
By: John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei
Jan 9, 2008 08:13 PM EST
New Hampshire sealed it. The winner was Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the loser — not just of Tuesday's primary but of the 2008 campaign cycle so far — was us.
"Us" is the community of reporters, pundits and prognosticators who so confidently — and so rashly — stake our reputations on the illusion that we understand politics and have special insight that allows us to predict the behavior of voters. continued
It's worth reading. It doesn't look to me like they spared themselves very much, if at all.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7822.html Or, at sig.
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Jkalos
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hell: let's reorganize our whole society's infrastructure on an emergency crash basis before I have to die just so the status quo can continue.
God! No kidding!
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The Fly-Man
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for that link. It does "link" well.
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Buck Fush
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What recount?
Dennis Kucinich is asking for a recount of the New Hampshire primary vote, citing online reports "alleging disparities around the state between hand-counted ballots, which tended to favor Barack Obama, and machine-counted ones that tended to favor Hillary
Clinton," reports the AP. Kucinich also noted the disparity between pre-primary polls and the vote totals Tuesday night. New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan said a recount would have to be paid for by Kucinich under state law.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/01/11/politics/horserace/entry3699170.shtml
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Stupid Republicans
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Juan Cole has a new post up regarding the American ships-Iranian speedboats interchange. We look increasingly more foolish as time goes on. It's worth a look (at sig) if only for how the story is airing on Iran TV.
The problem with crying Woolf! too many times is it leads to thoughts like those expressed in this anonymous comment:
Great big ship cruising round left hand side of Atlantic Ocean sees light blinking ahead.
"We are the US Navy vessel USNS Hamburger. Who are you? Identify yourself."
No reply.
"We are the US Navy vessel USNS Hamburger, with 1500 Marines, umpteen F17s, 18s, 19s and a few Tomahawks aboard. Identify yourself!!"
No reply - the challenge is repeated, several times, until a sleepy voice answers:
'This is a goddam lighthouse in Newfoundland, and we can't move it right now."
As much as I laughed, I can't help but shake the feeling that it's risky to do so. I cannot wait until GWB retires to clear brush in Crawford, Texas (as if I think that's where he'll go to retire).
The more sinister undertone is this observation made by Juan Cole:
The Iranian press is suspicious about the timing of the Pentagon videotape, noting that it was released just as Bush was heading to the Middle East to try to convince the Arab allies of the US to make common cause with Israel against Iran. The Gulf monarchies in particular are very afraid of the Iranian navy, and the Bush administration video would have been useful for pushing the Kuwaitis, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia into agreeing with the Bush grand strategy of surrounding Iran and then cutting it off.
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prunes
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's as though they confuse self-image with logical argumentation.
Exactly, which is why the piece from Scott Horton was worth reading.