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...European, I couldn't agree more with columnist Klein's position: "There is something fundamentally un-American?and very European?about the Clintons and the Bushes trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of retainers, supporters and enemies." American democracy demands new faces. Klein also noted that if Hillary runs for President, it would be "a circus, a revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990s." I'm afraid that whoever the candidates will be, the campaign will be ugly. In American politics, the parties seem to think that no matter how preposterous...
...toward her White House staff will come back to hit her with the fury of a tsunami. It will be a massive political and media sideshow. John Simpson Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. As a European, I couldn't agree more with columnist Klein's position: "There is something fundamentally un-American - and very European - about the Clintons and the Bushes trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of retainers, supporters and enemies." American democracy demands new faces. Klein also noted that if Hillary runs for President, it would be "a circus, a revisitation of the carnival ugliness...
...pages are filled with jeremiads about believers--principally evangelical Christians and traditional Catholics--bent on turning the U.S. into a theocracy. Now I am not much of a believer, but there is something deeply wrong--indeed, deeply un-American--about fearing people simply because they believe. It seems perfectly O.K. for secularists to impose their secular views on America, such as, say, legalized abortion or gay marriage. But when someone takes the contrary view, all of a sudden he is trying to impose his view on you. And if that contrary view happens to be rooted in Scripture or some...
...year 1948 was likewise a turning-point in Nixon’s career. As a freshman congressman from California, he hauled a former State Department official named Alger Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee on charges that Hiss was a spy. The committee hearings, which were televised, made Nixon a star...
...un-American to deny the public a say in where its tax money goes. That’s called taxation without representation. Somerville residents fought a war over that in the past. Israeli investments divide the community. Let’s drop them...