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...necessary for national security. Over time it seems more and more power is being amassed by the Administration at the expense of Congress and the courts. That is tinkering with the U.S. Constitution, and that concerns me just as much as any threat of terrorism. Marcia Morocco Thousand Oaks, California, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt said it well: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Time's reporting on the nsa seems aimed at making the American people paranoid. Let the civil libertarians be fearful and anxious. If monitoring our phones keeps just one American from being harmed...
...thousand and six may just turn out to be the year of reckoning for the carefree spending of the Bush administration, and federal education spending has assumed the part of the paschal lamb. As tax cuts, increased defense spending, and the enactment of Medicare prescription drug benefits legislation ballooned our national debt during President George W. Bush’s first term in office, it became increasingly clear that our spending habits were unsustainable. Four increases of the national debt ceiling could not stave off the reality that something had to be sacrificed. And with that in mind, the House...
...conventional wisdom,' as he derisively calls it-is hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics ... He has become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names ... The foundations for Galbraith's current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare-it established clear guideposts...
...celebrations, held on July 11 and 12, are being staged on a much grander scale in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Genghis Khan's Mongol empire. Though festivities are organized all over the country, the biggest take place in the capital, Ulan Bator. A thousand horsemen will put on a spectacular equestrian show there on the festival eve, July 10. The next morning, Naadam will begin with a recital by 800 morin huur players (the morin huur, a two-stringed fiddle, is Mongolia's national instrument) and a performance by 800 singers of "long songs...
...find a home on Daily Kos. A clearinghouse for liberal screeds and progressive perspective on the news, the site claims to get more than 500,000 unique visitors daily, and more than 10,000 members maintain their own sub-blogs (called "diaries") within its reaches. On Thursday, almost a thousand of these loyal readers and contributors - along with Wesley Clark, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and former Virginia governor and potential '08 contender Mark Warner - will gather in Las Vegas for a pep rally-cum-political conference, "Yearly...