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America needs to solve its problems by itself and for itself. Making Nigeria bear the cross for some of its inefficiencies is face-saving, but won't guarantee the safety of Americans at home or abroad. Zainab Sandah, ABUJA...
...wasn't always this way, he explains in his introduction. Traditionally, Thais were rural folk who ate at home. But in the 1960s, with the country rapidly industrializing, people migrated from the farms to the factories, and food stalls sprang up to feed them. Their customers were once pitied or scorned. Women who bought takeaway instead of cooking for their families were called "plastic-bag housewives." (See the 12 tastiest new foods...
...roads and particularly the interstate highways? One analysis by a researcher at the University of Vermont found that the state only gets 75 cents back for every dollar it hands over to the federal center. The secessionists say they'd prefer to save their money and keep it at home. "Not only would an independent Vermont survive," says Naylor, "It would thrive, because it would free up entrepreneurial forces heretofore held in abeyance. We're not preaching economic isolationism. We want to confront the empire, and that doesn't mean just owning a Prius and keeping a root garden...
Second Vermont Republic's gubernatorial candidate is Dennis Steele, 42, a hulking Carhartt-clad fifth generation Vermonter and entrepreneur. He owns Radio Free Vermont, an Internet radio station, and honchos an online venture called ChessManiac.com. Steele says that, if elected, his first act in office would be to bring home Vermont's National Guard from overseas deployments. "I see my kids going off to fight in wars for empire 10, 15, 20 years from now," said Steele, who served three years in the U.S. Army. "People in Vermont in general are very antiwar, and all their faith was in Obama...
...members ranged from 30-somethings to retirees. Steve Davio, 55, a scientist from the Rochester area, watches The O'Reilly Factor nearly every night. The current "progressive agenda, [with] each incremental step, takes us further and further from an America of self-reliance, land of the free and the home of the brave," he says. "It makes us the land of the weak and the home of the helpless...