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...speech that had worked brilliantly in previous campaigns but has come to seem stale and off-key. "The Democrats believe they can spend your money better than you can. We don't," he said yet again. That has been one of Bush's most cherished bits of antitax demagoguery, except now it's clear that his Republicans have been anything but prudent about spending "your" money. Worse, there is the stench of anti-Washington, know-nothingism to it-as if "your" money weren't being spent on necessities like national defense, environmental protection or health care...
...think we were right about everything except the drugs. We were right about civil rights; we were right about human rights; we were right about peace being better than war. Most of the causes we espoused then were correct. But I think we didn't know our butt from a hole in the ground about drugs, and that bit us pretty hard...
...banks will cease handling transactions from North Korea. It also says it had increased inspections of goods passing from China to North Korea by land, although there will be no inspections of seaborne cargo. Chinese newspapers reported last week that authorities had closed all border crossings with North Korea except for the most heavily trafficked one, at Dandong...
Wishful thinking has blamed current ills on pork, former Rep. Mark Foley, the immigration and Social Security impasses, lobbyists, and the like—effectively everything except for the party’s ill-advised and disastrous foreign policy, the true cause of Republican misfortunes. Unless the Republican Party acknowledges the problems with its post-9/11 foreign policy and returns to its rational, restrained roots, either it will die out, as Americans refuse to trust it any longer at the helm of our country, or it will overextend our military so much that our efforts to preserve peace...
...then asked to wear a tan wireless viewing device that changes the view to what one of the three other participants is looking at, making the perception of the exhibition gallery into a shared reality. Moving along, the gallery walls are painted a dull shade of white, bare except for the numbers one-to-13 differentiating the panels. This is the world of Norweigan artist Sissel Tolaas, recently profiled in The New York Times. Tolaas experiments with a sense that is often forgotten in the art world—that of smell. To produce “The FEAR...