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Imagine that a United States government program, Medicaid for example, had lost more than 20 billion dollars to blatant graft and corruption. Imagine that the executive director of that program had himself benefited personally to the tune of millions of dollars. Imagine that the President’s son was under serious suspicion of being involved in the scandal. Imagine that the “independent” government investigation was being paid for with funds from the program itself. Imagine that some of the money skimmed off was used to fund a terrorist insurgency. Finally, imagine that the scandal...
Part of what I find overwhelming at the mall is how utterly blatant American consumerism is. The mall doesn’t even pretend it is about necessity items. And maybe we should be grateful for that: Your local mall (that is probably now owned and renamed by a giant corporation) is very upfront about its mission. It exists to glorify consumerism—and to include you in that project. So while I wove in and out of oncoming foot traffic making mental lists of what I “refuse...
...State of Mind offers no unexpected insights about what North Koreans think of themselves and the world, but it does provide some tantalizing clues. One of the gymnasts tells her mother "bye-bye" as she leaves for school?a blatant misuse of the language of their imperialist enemy. And her friend's grandfather, a construction worker, mentions that he is building a large market ("We people are all curious about such a market," he says), suggesting that economic reforms are filtering through to everyday life. These snippets shed little light, but A State of Mind is illuminating in one very...
...campaign for generations. However, the main reasons that Democrats did not win the White House in 2000 or 2004 (and probably will not win until John McCain finishes his term in 2016) are that the Democrats running for national office, and the machinery that supports them, rely more on blatant focus group pandering than a coherent, marketable ideology and, even more lamentably, they do not take care of their base...
...town hall-style debate last Friday, Kerry was clearly intent on courtship. He used the word respect each time he answered a woman's question about values, and he presented himself as a drug-reimporting, budget-balancing, stem-cell-researching champion of middle-class families. Sometimes even blatant pandering works if it shows that you're listening...