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New Republic Tosses a Few Bones<1>

2010-12-30 10:44

 

The New Republic yesterday posted yet another editorial on the Scott Thomas Beauchamp situation and on its attempts to "re-report" his

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be respected). p>According to the

editors, Beauchamp was discovered by "Elspeth Reeve, a TNR reporter-researcher, whom he later married." What he had to say was believable

because he was a soldier in Iraq and because "conservatives and liberals alike praised" his first Office 2007 Professional bring me so much convenience.

essay. Further: BR>

All of Beauchamp's essays were fact-checked before publication. We checked the plausibility of details with experts, contacted a

corroborating witness, and pressed the author for further details. But publishing a first-person essay from a war zone requires a measure of

faith in the writer. Given what we knew of Beauchamp, personally and professionally, we credited his report. After questions were raised

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BR>As to the "Shock Troops" incident? In a nutshell: the story about the disfigured woman was (reportedly) true, but the location was wrong;

rather than taking place at FOB Falcon in Baghdad, it now supposedly "occurred at Camp Office 2010 download is available now!

Buehring, in Kuwait, prior to the unit's arrival in

Iraq." But this error (if it is the only one) is okay, because "Beauchamp acknowledged his error" and "we (TNR) sincerely regret this

mistake." p>

TNR claims to have corroborated the other two incidents; however, if its editorial is to be taken at face value, then its again settled

lazily for something that cast the shadow of truth on Beauchamp's far more detailed narrative, rather than actually (a) investigating

further, or (b) owing up to having published a gross exaggeration. p>Take, for example, the child's skull incident. Said Beauchamp in his Many people use Microsoft Office 2007 to help their work and life.

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his hair had just been cut--since it would

make it easier to pick out the pieces of rotting flesh that were digging into his head. /BLOCKQUOTE> BR>And here's what TNR managed to find

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"laughed" at the supposed stunt: BR>

One [soldier] wrote in an e-mail: "I can wholeheartedly verify the finding of the bones; U.S. troops (in my unit) discovered human remains in

the manner described in 'Shock Troopers.' [sic] ... [We] did not report it; there was no need to. The bodies weren't freshly killed and thus visio 2010

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Liberalism on a Ledge<1>

2010-12-30 10:41

 

CHICAGO -- "What did your psychologist tell you?"

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Participants were only all too happy to count the ways: No immediate Iraq pullout, defections on the hate crimes bill, Congressional staffers

building walls between representatives and bloggers who grew accustomed to easy access during the campaign.

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presume) talk distraught progressives "off the roof," and thus the request that Hamsher share her professional pal's methods. A few minutes

later, an audience member asked how panel members propose holding representatives accountable "without looking like all we're doing is being

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President booth bounce off impervious passersby as if he were a freeway ghost. Hillary's stand was completely abandoned. The virtues of Ned

Lamont's campaign are still being extolled. Faded Dean for America T-shirts are outnumbered only by Impeach Bush Tees.

A popular panel, "Three People Who Helped Change Congress," featured S.R. Siddarth (the intern George Allen called macaca), Mike Stark (the Office 2007 can make life more better and easier.

man roughed up by Allen campaign staffers) and Lane Hudson (the leaker of Mark Foley's naughty emails). It was like the We Couldn't Even

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them. Only Media Matters' "Annoy Fox News" stickers feel more retro.

Is it possible for such a young, victorious movement to already be looking backwards?

NOT SO LONG AGO, progressive bloggers relished their outsider role as "citizen journalists" driven by passion not cash. Yesterday I attended

a workshop entitled, "A Union for Bloggers: It's Time to Organize!" during which a moderator posited, "I think all bloggers, in one way or project 2010

another, view themselves as professionals" and a woman bemoaned the travesty of her and husband's inability to quit their jobs and become

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The Decline of Laughter<2>

2010-12-30 10:37

 

Even more sinful than the ethnic joke in the eyes of our moral guardians is the old comedy of the sexes. Despite all the ingenious labor of

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great need to accommodate those differences

and to defuse the conflicts to which they might give rise. Humor has been the traditional recourse of humanity in this predicament, as men

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devoid of humor -- and advisedly so, for if it ever were to employ this resource it would die laughing at itself.

THERE ARE MANY JOKE-FREE ZONES in our religious literature. The Old Testament is full of them -- think of that appalling Book of Joshua --

and the Koran is as rigidly humorless as any document that has survived the efforts of humanity to laugh it off. But this points to another

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traditions are full of self-deprecating jokes, which underline the absurd position of God's chosen people, living on the margins of a world

that does not know that that is who they are. Jewish humor is one of the greatest survival mechanisms ever invented -- which has aided not

only its own survival but the survival of Jewish identity, through an unparalleled history of attempts to rub it out.

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expression of hostility. Here too the censors are hard at work, depriving humanity of its natural way of defusing conflict, and forcing upon

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Fred and the First Amendment<1>

2010-12-30 10:34

 

When last we left off in the battle to pin the McCain-Feingold tail on the donkey (the elephant would be more politically accurate), Fred

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Fred and the First Amendment<2>

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approach, try to draw a distinction between groups his brief discussed (which ran ads closely coordinated with political parties) and groups

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precisely the reason they opposed it so strenuously. It remains an open question why Thompson now agrees with groups like the NRA and Right

to Life, whose concerns he dismissed four years ago, that the issue ad ban should go.microsoft project 2010

When Thompson stops testing and dives into the water he will need to have some ready answers, just as Mitt Romney had to explain his changes

of heart on key issues. When did Thompson realize that the "sham issue ad" ban dangerously chilled First Amendment Rights? Before he started project 2010

mulling a presidential run he did not, as far as we know, indicate any misgivings about the law he authored and its effect on dozens of visio 2010

conservative interest groups. An honest explanation of his reasoning and a clear statement as to whether he supports the rest of the bill

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Global Kellogging<2>

2010-12-30 10:32

 

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worked best with corn and the product was marketed as the corn flake. His brother, Will Keith Kellogg, broke away in 1906 and made a rival

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The Sanitarium, known affectionately as The San, was a mecca for the rich and idle, complaining of a host of hypochondriac ailments. (Perhaps

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The satirical novel, The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle, captures the madness cleverly. It was later brought to the screen by a cast

including Anthony Hopkins as Kellogg, Matthew Broderick and Bridget Fonda as patients, with Michael Lerner and John Cusack as hustlers trying

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sought after, in its own day. Abolitionist Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) went there near the end of her life in the hope of capturing some of

that rejuvenation everyone was talking about.

The truth is that present-day shysters often steal Kellogg's material to great effect. In my four-decade career as an avid radio listener, I

have heard at least three different revivals of the toxins-in-the-bowels gospel. There was one fellow hawking a book about ten years ago who

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Gore and Kennedy are drawing upon this treasure trove in the American historical memory. They are pressing the same buttons in our personas

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into the stratosphere. Apparently, they are full of, er... toxic waste. The solution is not the Sanitarium but the government. But the

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Do the Wrong Thing<2>

2010-12-21 15:02

 

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Do the Wrong Thing<1>

2010-12-21 14:59

 

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Punks of All Types<4>

2010-12-20 08:53

 

p>He is the perfect example of the "good guy" sports figure. br> -- David Smith br> Pearland, Texas

Re: Tom Bethell's Freedom of Immigration Acts : /p>

1. What is wrong with cheap labor? Teenagers used to get their introduction to the work world with after school and weekend jobs. The moral

training and introduction to the work ethic that goes along with those jobs has been lost because the jobs are being done by Mexicans.

2. The fact that workers are undocumented means that they work without protections (safety, abuse, civil rights, worker's comp, unemployment

insurance) which we, as a society, have declared that we should have in place. We have a two-tiered standard of law. Those who hire illegals

can break the other laws and those who don't hire illegals get busted when they violate the law. Meanwhile illegals die and are maimed in

unreported workplace accidents.

3. The conservative argument is: First enforce the border, then we can move on to the other issues. After we agree to another amnesty, we

will have no handle to convince big business liberals to enforce the law.

4. Criticizing a "welfare entitlement" attitude doesn't make it go away. It's still there and it still will cost money.

5. Kolbe's argument is that if we increase border security, we will cut the illegal immigration problem way down, probably to manageable

size. That is precisely the argument that Bethel attributes to conservatives, yet Kolbe is not a conservative.

6. The fact that France has a worse problem doesn't make our issues any better.

7. Mexico will probably move to a more capitalistic system. However they have had recent insurrections. They may have more. From our

perspective, things may get worse before they get better.

p>8. The two sides to this debate are really big business and non-big business. Bush, Pelosi, Kennedy, Cheney, and the other big money people

want cheap labor

Committing HarryCare<6>

2010-12-08 15:02

 

None of this is necessary to address our real health care problems. Only about 12 million Americans arguably can't afford health insurance.

We can just provide them with some government assistance to help them buy it, at little additional cost. We already spend around $400 billion

on Medicaid each year, with that slated to soar in future years. Give each state the authority to redesign its Medicaid program from the

ground up to provide a true safety net for the poor. Each state can include in that an uninsurable risk pool where those uninsured who become

too sick to get private insurance can get guaranteed coverage, paying what they can given their resources, with the government paying the

rest. Since few people actually become uninsurable, this would provide a complete safety net at little in added cost.

We can actually reduce costs by expanding rather than restricting Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), where consumers are covered by catastrophic

insurance with a high deductible, which costs far less than traditional low deductible coverage. The difference is saved in the HSA to pay

for expenses below the deductible, providing market incentives for patients to avoid overly expensive or unnecessary medical care, as they

can keep what they don't spend. With patients concerned about costs, doctors, hospitals and other health providers would have new incentives

to compete to reduce costs. Common sense solutions like allowing interstate sales of health insurance and tort reform would also reduce

health costs.

No rationing, no government takeover, no trillion dollar programs are necessary to address these problems. Quite the opposite. That reveals

that the health care debate is really about government and political power, not health care. Sucker.

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