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I read this article, and could not believe my eyes. http://townhall.com/Columnists/FrankPastore/2008/10/07/sarah_palin,_matt_damon,_dinosaurs_and_%e2%80% ( Read more... )

A real and serious issue with exporting any European or Japanese model of universal health coverage to the USA is the size and diversity of the nation. The attempt to micro-manage the British Health Service - by now reduced, thanks to the growth of local parliaments, to England alone - from Westminster is notoriously one of the major problems with ( Read more... )

Governor Mike Huckabee is a Creationist - one of the old kind we thought defeated after the eighties. What is more, his answers reveal a depressing ignorance of the basics of science, a worrying failure in understanding the relationship between science and government, and, what is more surprising, a spectacularly poor grip of theology ( Read more... )

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One of my fellow LJers is a nice young person who finds herself as practically the only Republican Catholic in her college environment. As such, it is easy to understand that she should indulge in some modest and polite rejoicing at the discomfiture of a candidate and a party that opposed everything that was dearest to her. Less understandable, ( Read more... )