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...opinion piece in support of a monument for Americans who fought on the side of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (Opinion, “The Last Battle,” March 22). What the article failed to mention is that the electoral system in Spain was terribly corrupt when the Republicans came to power and that the assassination of a Republican leader is what caused the war to begin. Moreover, the article neglected to mention an important fact about the war, that the Republican government was brutally anti-clerical. Republican forces murdered more than 10,000 priests...
...John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) is on a crusade to rescue democracy in America. With his rakish grin and heroic silver mane, McCain promises to deliver us from the ills of a corrupt campaign finance regime. His ragtag band of rebels, including those muckraking scamps at The New York Times and the Washington Post, wages a guerrilla campaign against the Establishment. The amazing thing is that he hasn’t yet been offed by The Man, a fat fellow smoking Cohiba cigars in a cavernous K Street office who commands legions of anti-McCain lackeys—a deceptively...
...exactly is corrupt? When asked this question by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and others, McCain never names the culprits. We could chalk this up to civility, but McCain has never before revealed any qualms about engaging in that “straight talk” he loves so well. Is it because he himself was implicated in the Keating Five scandal of the ’80s? As the standard newspaper accounts go, his involvement in that scandal led him to his jihad against the special interests...
...what exactly is the reason? Well, McCain says that everyone in Washington is corrupted by the campaign finance system as it stands, and so it’s unfair to single anyone out. McCain, however, is obviously not corrupt—nor is Feingold. Their hunger for special interest dollars doesn’t prevent them from making the tough calls and the right decisions, so what could be stopping all the others? Could it be that no one in particular is “corrupt,” that the situation is much more complicated? Could it be that...
...While studying history at Oxford his summer job was sweeping floors and serving drinks in the family business. After graduation he sought adventure and profit in Russia, working with a friend to secure an international route for a Russian airline. Two years later, he concluded the country was too corrupt for normal business and came back to London...