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...think of it, why is there a draft?The answers to these questions I do not intend to address here—not only because I’m still pondering them, but because I’m pondering a wider arc.Using the playoff system, the sports seem to favor a quintessentially American approach to competing—a fierce one-off battle between two enemies, clearly defined, with a winner-takes-all scenario. Watching television coverage of these gargantuan clashes can also be an arduous process. Lobotomized by the tedium of repetitive advertisements almost every ten minutes, lectured with...
...This breed of hysteria is in turn reminiscent of the “Bush is Hitler” excesses of the antiwar left that the right so decried when President Bush was in power. It further marginalizes an out-of-favor but legitimate political paradigm whose contributions to the political debate are necessary for the health of our public discourse. By engaging in such puerile antics, the tea partiers only perpetuate the perception of their intellectual bankruptcy...
...banks. Our 55-year-old company, VALIC, was highly respected for its integrity and personal service. AIG is now selling our profitable company to the highest bidder to help pay back taxpayers. The good news is that we are reversing our ill-advised name change, dropping AIG Retirement in favor of our original name. But what am I supposed to do with all my AIG-embroidered hats, shirts and jackets? John Wilkins, APTOS, CALIF...
...Thailand has an increasingly vocal antialcohol movement. Last November Thai Beverage PLC, the country's largest producer of alcoholic drinks, indefinitely postponed its stock listing after Buddhist monks led a blockade of the Stock Exchange of Thailand building in Bangkok. Thais in favor of prohibition also cheered the passing of an alcohol-control act that took effect in February last year. It raised the legal drinking age from 18 to 20, banned alcohol-related advertising, and - at a time when Britain was liberalizing its licensing laws to allow for round-the-clock drinking - restricted the sale of alcohol to only...
...powerful gun lobby that often strangles gun-control laws. Americans in general have cooled significantly to the idea of restricting gun rights. A poll released last week by CNN showed that support for stricter gun laws was at an all-time low, with just 39% of respondents in favor. Eight years ago that number...