Monthly Archives: September 2003

Relative Absolution

9/25/2003 – 12:20 am

Is everything relative or are there absolute truths? It’s a good
question for our presidential pre-season, when we measure how short
each candidate falls from our absolute ideal. Relativity kicks in
during next year’s primaries, when we begin deciding Candidate A is
relatively better than Candidate B.

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The Fourth Outcome

9/18/2003 – 12:14 pm

The scariest thing I heard last week was a radio interview with Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Mr. Krugman said the federal deficit is growing so large and so quickly that one of three potential outcomes is nearly inevitable.
Outcome one – higher taxes. It’s fairly certain George W. Bush [...]

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Two Years later

9/11/2003 – 12:12 pm

Today is the second anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center and many Americans will be visited again by the familiar but unwelcome tightness in the stomach, the perceptible acceleration of the pulse. The sound of an airplane passing overhead seems to jump at our ears. People are solemn [...]

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In For a Dime

9/4/2003 – 12:10 pm

Here’s more good news for the American taxpayer: Tuesday’s Washington Post reports that not only are foreign nations reluctant to send combat troops to Iraq, they’re now resisting the notion of sending money to help rebuild a nation that becomes more ravaged every day.
Since the bombing of its Baghdad headquarters two weeks ago, the UN [...]

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