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The Times has a great article about tailgating at Ole Miss. As usual, there’s a little bit of that “look at how cute the Southerners are” tone that the Grey Lady so often imports when writing about anything not northern. But, it’s also got a money line:
“We may not win every game,” she said. “But we’ve never lost a party.”
I love the internet.
“We cannot ignore the uncomfortable fact that economic and social circumstances may better prepare some countries for democracy than others. Oddly, we seem to have forgotten what Vietnam should have taught us about the limitations of the military as an instrument of ‘nation-building.’ Promoting democracy requires attention to specific circumstances and to the limitations of leverage. Both because of what the United States is and because of what is possible, we cannot engage either in promoting democracy or in nation-building as an exercise of will. We must proceed by interaction and indirection, not imposition. In this respect, post-World War II experiences with Germany and Japan offer misleading guides to what is possible now, even in a period of American primacy.”
where are the masses to call for the congressional investigation of the bush administration’s conspiracy of the $0.60 per gallon gas price change in the last 6 weeks? it is, as we all know, a covin to get the GOP to maintain control of the houses, of course.
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