Author: das monde

A cup of coffee in Baghdad

Last night the US Secretary Condoleezza Rice appeared on Foxnews’ O’Reilly Factor. The host was a bit tough, though he did not ask about “No one could have imagined them slamming a plane…”...

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Motley government reflexions

Newt Gingrich at O’Leilly’s Factor:GINGRICH: [Then] you go off on this – total giving up on government, which I think is just wrong. And I think frankly is un-American. We have a long history in America that...

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NRO defends high gas prices

The conservative National Review Online writes this: Gouge On A defense of gas profiteering. By Jerry Taylor[How] should we ration our limited pool of gasoline? In a free market, scarce goods are typically rationed by price....

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NRO roundup of today

Yesterday I commented at dKos the coverage of Katrina by the conservative NRO Corner blog. Their focus was not sensitive, to put it mildly. Today started similarly: SO MAYBE HE DIDN’T PLAY GOLF [Kathryn Jean Lopez] but...

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