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This thought is central to The End of Nature, and it represents a highly unusual effort to look at all the ramifications of the global warming problem. Although its flaws are obvious, The End of Nature is as fresh as the endless stream of "end" theories is stale...
Liberals smugly retort that it actually costs 12 cents. Then they are satisfied that there really isn't a problem of useless bureaucracy. But Joe and Wanda Voter know better...
...offered a blanket defense of a status quo that was clearly inadequate, simply because they thought Reagan's alternatives were worse. When liberals should have been honestly assessing the shortcomings of their programs and seeking to correct them, they were using Reagan's inarticulate criticisms as evidence that no problem existed...
...says FBI spokesman Milt Ahlerich, is the "identification of hostile intelligence activities." That includes the detection of approaches made to Soviet emigres by KGB agents. But couldn't the callers deliberately feed disinformation to the FBI? "That could happen," concedes Ahlerich. "We're prepared to address the problem." Despite the FBI's new glasnost, Ahlerich would not even hint at what respondents to the ad have been telling the bureau...
...Government isn't the solution; it's the problem." As a candidate and a President, Ronald Reagan loved that line. But Reagan seemed simply to be indulging in harmless hyperbole or offering his version of the time-honored aphorism that government is best when it governs least. Surely he did not seriously propose to dismantle an institution that had brought the U.S. through two world wars, restored stability during the Depression and played a major part in developing one of the highest standards of living on earth...