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...spotlight, just as Iraqi and American military commanders announced limited progress made on another fiery front line. For the last month, the attention of the Iraqi and American militaries shifted in large part from Sunni insurgents to the Shi'ite Mahdi Army. With daily car bombings and IEDs still lower in Sunni areas of the capital than they were a year ago, officials are hesitant to declare a return of al-Qaeda just yet. But with all eyes focused on the Mahdi Army's stronghold of Sadr City, it appears that the insurgent group is beginning to take advantage...
...these foundations of the local economy.The residents of Cape Cod are largely misguided in terms of their ideas for restoring the environment and their attitudes toward a sustainable lifestyle. Throughout the discussions of this project, many politicians and public departments have advocated that Cape Cod citizens act individually to lower their own use of electricity and be more environmentally friendly while they wait for the project to come to fruition.These ideas, however, should not be specific to this location or this historical moment; environmental consciousness should be practiced regardless of financial or temporal details. The overall mindset of the American...
...instead there was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain walking through the still-moldering remains of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, taking a direct swipe at President Bush by declaring that "never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled." There he was in Kentucky coal country, visiting the weathered porch where Lyndon Johnson announced the "War on Poverty" in 1964. There he was in Alabama's Black Belt, where people live without sewer systems, dancing as elderly quilters serenaded him with spirituals. And before the broken windows...
...return could not come too soon for Mary Croom-Fontenot, an activist in New Orleans who works with local churches to help organize the post-Katrina rebuilding. "Twenty minutes out on this lawn in the heat does not suffice," she said, after McCain held a press availability in the Lower Ninth Ward on Thursday. Like some others, she said she thought McCain's visit to the neighborhood, which included two military trucks for carrying photographers to capture McCain as he walked through, was overly focused on the national media, not the actual community. "What we saw was a designated seating...
...stimulating the economy by continuing President Bush's tax cuts, slashing the corporate tax rate and reducing wasteful federal spending, which he said would be accomplished by banning congressional earmarks and reviewing efficiency of the cabinet-level agencies. He says he expects these policies, including a continuation of a lower capital gains tax rate, to help the economy grow, benefiting those at the bottom of the ladder as much as those higher...