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...learned a lot about America's pretense. "Oh the troops, the troops, the brave troops, the precious troops, the courageous troops!" We deify these troops. And then when they come home, the VA doesn't call them back. That's just one of the great pretenses. Another is, "Democracy, democracy, you have to have democracy!" Hell, less than half of us vote. Until last week, that...
...Liberal" is the kiss of death. In the land of the free, we have silenced half the political voice of this country. They've got us afraid to even use the world liberal. We call ourselves "progressive" now. We've allowed them to take our name away...
...plethora of admission-advice guides. “Joyce knows about the subtle differences that tip the scales,” he said. “To have an insider’s perspective from someone who has been on the other side would be helpful for close-call cases.” But Curll said that the book was written with the knowledge and support of the Law School admissions office, Law School spokesman Robert L. J. London ’79 wrote in an e-mail yesterday that Curll’s book “doesn?...
...Their first visit after the election was not promising: Roosevelt came for what he thought was a personal call at the White House on Nov. 22, 1932 - only to find Hoover's Treasury Secretary on hand to help the outgoing President deliver a lecture on the importance of the gold standard, the stability of the banking system and the problem of Europe's war debt. When it was over, Hoover judged Roosevelt to be "amiable, pleasant ... very badly informed and of comparably little vision." (See pictures of election drama...
...Former Presidents tend to rise to the occasion when the call comes from the Oval Office, even if the caller is a former adversary. It is an act of patriotism and perhaps pity from men who, knowing what the job entails, are uniquely positioned to help. Barack Obama has an interesting array of predecessors to choose from: Jimmy Carter, the acclaimed humanitarian who has seemed at times to delight in tormenting his successors; Bill Clinton, whose own chapter in history has some extra footnotes now with Obama's win; and two Presidents named Bush, one with a more recent feel...