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Aug 28 2009
What Ted Kennedy Never Learned
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By Sheldon Richman   

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is gone. No one in the last 40 years stood as a larger symbol of “liberalism,” the view that government is the answer for everything. A great deal has been said in recent days about his compassion and generosity. But bear in mind that in public life, his compassion consisted in spending other people’s money and authorizing government bureaucracies to interfere with the social cooperation that takes place whenever life, liberty, and property are respected.

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Prosecuting Bush And Cheney Could Prevent Future Crimes
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By Sherwood Ross   

Allowing today’s leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same.

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Would Eric Holder Have Prosecuted the Nazis?
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By MWC News   

Let’s assume that a U.S. president authorizes the CIA to rape the family members of suspected terrorists as a way to get them to talk. He also authorizes his subordinates to place the suspected terrorists on a rack that stretches them apart until they confess and disclose all details of their suspected terrorism.

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On 'Death Panels,' 'Socialized Medicine' and Other Red Herrings
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By Don Williams   

Ain't it a shame our so-called liberal media is obsessed with "death panels" of fevered imaginations rather than death panels that exist in the real world, notably in our present health-care system?

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Hope Is No Substitute for Theory
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By Sheldon Richman   

Should libertarians hope that Barack Obama succeeds or fails in his presidency? The question comes to mind because conservatives got embroiled in the issue when their leading radio star, Rush Limbaugh, said he hoped Obama would fail. Some commentators thought that was a horrible thing to say. Radio stars need regular public controversy to keep their listeners tuned in, so there’s no point in analyzing what the Republican partisan Limbaugh might have meant. But the question may lead us to other insights.

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Warfare State Winners
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By Sherwood Ross   
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE AMERICAN WARFARE STATE

“On my last day in Iraq,” veteran McClatchy News correspondent Leila Fadel wrote August 9th, “as on my first day in Iraq, I couldn’t see what the United States and its allies had accomplished. …I couldn’t understand what thousands of American soldiers had died for and why hundreds of thousands of Iraqis had been killed.”

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Tags:  Sherwood Ross State Winners Michael Cherkasky Kroll Inc. Joseph Stiglitz Linda Bilmes
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When Will the Heath-Care Debate Start?
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By Sheldon Richman   

I’m waiting for the health-care debate to start. The preliminaries have been spirited and loud, but how about a debate?
 
You may think there’s been a debate, but if you’d been listening carefully, you’d realize it’s a fake, like professional wrestling.


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President Obama: It’s harder to lose face when you have two of them
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By Bob Boldt   

After a meeting of the Three Amigos (President Obama, President Calderon of Mexico and Prime Minister Harper of Canada) in Guadalajara, Mexico on Monday, August 10th, President Obama hit back at critics who say the U.S. not doing enough for Honduras. 

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