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ited former basket ball player & bad-boy, Dennis Rodman to Pyongyang. As I use to say in the 196os if we had dropped televisions instead of bombs in Vietnam, the war would have been over years earlier. And in this case, if we send JayZ and Beyonce to visit him and then invite him to Disney World and Asp
e, and Florida participated in the suit asking the Supreme Court to declare the whole plan unconstitutional. Nonetheless, Mr. Scott recently shocked Tea Party activists by announcing his support for the Medicaid expansion. But his support came with a condition: he was willing to cover more of the uninsure
ce and Canada national debt's are between 81.5% to 86.3% of their GDPs. Whilem Zimbabwe national debt is 70.3%, Mexico 43.8%, Venezuela is 45.5% and Vietnam is 38%. Obviously the US economy is in better shape than Zimbabwe, Vietnam and Mexico. And Singapore's economy which has a national debt ratio 100.
en staunchly conservative ones, who even emitted a whiff of being somewhat reasonable. Conservative standard-bearer Orrin Hatch narrowly survived a Tea Party challenge last year. Hatch wasn't as fortunate as his fellow conservative from Utah, Bob Bennett, who lost to his primary challenger in 2010, just
ations and terror networks mainly of a radical Islamist bent. It saw the revival of counterinsurgency doctrine, buried in the aftermath of defeat in Vietnam, and a reinterpretation of that disaster as well. Over the years, its chief characteristic became ever clearer: a EFTA00857249 "Groundhog Day" ki
to bust unions, further deregulate energy industries, and avoid the imposition of regulation in commodities trading. AFP spends generously to elect Tea Party candidates, and has been a primary funder of controversial Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's election and bid to avoid a recall after his crusade to
n now than even during Joe McCarthy's anti- communist witch hunts of the 195os, the tempestuous struggle for civil rights in the 1960s, the divisive Vietnam war, or the Watergate scandal? As Reich points out that if anything, you'd think this would be an era of relative calm. First of all, the Soviet Un
like Paul Ryan and EFTA00678668 Rand Paul still don't think this is enough and some of my conservative friends are still sending me cartoons and Tea Party articles that suggest that President Obama's economic policies are a disaster. For them I asked one thing, is the country better off now than it was
ce. No President since Dwight D. Eisenhower had served two full terms. John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Lyndon Johnson, overwhelmed by the war in Vietnam, had declined to run for reelection in 1968. Richard Nixon resigned less than seventeen months into his second term. Gerald Ford (who was never el
ot as monolithically opposed to a deal as one might think. Last year's talks taught the White House that there are divisions between the hard-right Tea Party faction that is unilaterally opposed to any tax hikes and more traditional Republicans who are so concerned about the long-term deficit that under
n," Caro recalled. L.B.J. was, after all, also the President who made the catastrophic decision to deepen America's involvement in the quagmire of Vietnam. "Obama seems interested in winding down our foreign wars," Caro said approvingly. When Obama does ask Republicans to a social occasion, he is some
-PRESIDENTIAL M&M'S The next morning, a Monday, I woke early and turned on CNN. Senator Lindsey Graham, who is facing a primary challenge from four Tea Party candidates in South Carolina, was saying with utter confidence that Iran had hoodwinked the Administration in Geneva. Next came a poll showing tha
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