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...National Rifle Association and of President George W. Bush on tightening gun restrictions is inexcusable, but that is another subject. In the face of mandatory sentencing for this 15-year-old as an adult, I am more concerned with the deeper problem of who or what is at fault. A year and a half after Columbine, the lessons of intolerance have not been learned in America's suburban schools...
...Still, Kim's visit provided further evidence of the foreign policy fault lines within the new administration, with the hawks fighting back against what they perceive as a dovish streak in the secretary of state, while a novice President quickly learns that the plain-speakin' style of the campaign trail can be disastrous in international affairs...
...then something changed, and people began to realize, by the millions, that it wasn't really their fault that nothing worked. They came to see that Old Economy products like automobiles worked much better at their very worst than New Economy goods, such as handheld Internet devices, worked at their very best...
...question of fault remains, of course. Why does nothing work? Because what we've been buying all these years is the prospect of workability, which we valued more highly than workability itself. Which would you pay more for? A glass of immediately drinkable water 1.0 or a glass of water 2.0 that can't be drunk for six months but will by then, you've been promised, have turned to wine...
...fault? There's plenty of blame to go around. Start with Washington. Even though tens of thousands of working stiffs have seen their nest eggs decimated, no one is stepping up to fix the one-stock scourge. In the mid '90s, Senator Barbara Boxer of California championed a bill to limit employer stock to 10% of plan assets. But companies opposed it. Boxer won a watered-down version with no teeth. She has moved on to other issues, and no one else has taken up the cause...