Category: politics
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En españa—totally soaked, newly conscious
I’m completely wet. Tonight we’re going to see the new Pirates movie, Piratas del carribe 3: en el fin del mundo, as they call it here. So to accompany that, we’re going to watch the first movie on a projector here at the school. Well, we were supposed to meet at 4pm, so I headed…
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On the War
[Note: this article is a reposting of something I wrote for my family-only blog. It seems to be appropriate for general circulation, though, and I now present it with only the slightest editing.] I sort of think fighting over politics is like Bible bashing: totally unproductive. Why fight over the Good News? Why start a…
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Joe Lieberman: voice of reason?
Now, Mr. Lieberman is talking straight and making sense. He just got back from a visit to Iraq and made some positive comments on the progress being made there. The difficulties, he says, boil down to a simple idea: It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live…