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July 4 Thoughts

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A quick primer for those of you who have never in your adult life been proud of your country.

On this July 4th, remember that for every political scandal, needless neocon war or story of how we’re hated the world over, you can reflect on these too:

Foreign Aid

Invading Burma redux

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I asked last Friday, theoretically more than practically, whether it was time to invade Burma, inviting readers to have their say on whether coercive relief operations could be realistically considered in the wake of the Burmese junta's refusal to allow foreign aid or relief workers into the country.

Time to invade Burma?

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The humanitarian crisis in Burma is worsening by the minute, so much that "crisis" must give way to "catastrophe." The UK's Sun paper (somewhat tabloidish, to be sure) reports that the death toll from the cyclone and its aftermath could

Ethanol backlash

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I guess we can file this under "unintended consequences of liberalism." Liberalism is sort of like Newton's Third Law. For every action of liberalism, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Such is the result of ethanol. I'm not blaming ethanol on liberalism. I'm blaming the forced use of ethanol in the name of global warming on liberals.

Yesterday's Lebanon Democrat column "Why is Obama ashamed of his middle name?"

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For the first time since I've been following presidential politics, we have a candidate whose name is off-limits. I'm writing, of course, about Barack Hussein Obama. Yes, that's his real name, presumably the one that appears on his birth certificate. It's not something we right-wingers made up.

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