Monthly Archives: June 2003

Buy American

6/26/2003 – 3:06 pm

Unemployment is now at six percent, a nine-year high. Times are hard, they may get harder. How will people make ends meet? What will they do to get by?
I spent a good part of the 1990s traveling around America, missing most of the tourist spots. My travels took me to the [...]

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Call Him Ismail

6/19/2003 – 3:04 pm

In 50 or 60 years, as historians write about this period, they will detail the formative experiences of a prominent anti-American leader. We know quite a bit about this man already, but one thing we don’t yet know is his name. For the sake of convenience, let’s call him Ismail.
Ismail, as his name [...]

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You Can Quote Me

6/12/2003 – 3:02 pm

On August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said, “Simply stated, there’s no doubt Iraq now has weapons of mass destruction.” There’s a reason Dick Cheney spends most of his time in hiding and it ain’t national security. What Mr. Cheney said was not qualified, it was not tentative, it was not equivocal, [...]

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Safety, Schmafety

6/5/2003 – 3:00 pm

Are we still on Orange Alert? I think so. Maybe newspapers, as a public service, should begin posting our Homeland Security status in the upper right corner of the front page, next to the weather brief. “Today – cloudy, showers, high 65 – alert status: Orange.” It might make us feel [...]

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