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...answers to these questions lie in the story we're being told about America. It's a "can't do" story--as in "We can't save Social Security" or "We can't cure our oil addiction." It embodies a belief in unlimited individual possibilities but severely limited collective possibilities. It is a story of fear, lack of compassion and America-only policies abroad. And it is fundamentally an untrue story about who we are as a people, but it has been repeated so often on TV and in the press that many in the U.S. have come to accept...
Once we face the truth, the good news is that there are answers to all our current problems. An Administration bold enough to tell the truth will find an audience ready for bold solutions. The answers to the problems of our democracy lie in more democracy, not less. If we had public financing of federal political campaigns and if congressional district lines were drawn by citizens' commissions instead of partisan state legislatures, we would have less polarized politics. And if we moved Election Day from Tuesday (I'll bet you can't tell me why it's on Tuesday...
...More plausible is that Goodling suspects committee members of planning a "perjury trap," trying to catch her in a lie. And even if she does tell the truth, the committee could still get her if her testimony contradicts what others have told the committee, creating inconsistencies that might "leave her liable for at least being indicted for perjury," explains Professor Randolph Jonakait of New York Law School. Goodling's lawyer implies that this is a possibility when he mentions in the letter "a senior Department of Justice official" - widely believed to be Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty - who has admitted...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I play varsity hockey...
...should admit that the problem does not lie wholly with our TFs so much as with the sheer stupidity that students think they can get away with. I wish I had a dime for every time I saw a TF’s flaccid, feigned smile of approbation, that muttering of “good” or “interesting” every time another student weighs in with a complete non-sequitur...