J. Paul Bremmer's Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that ruled Iraq early in the occupation tried mightily to convert Iraq to the kind of unregulated free market state that Republicans are so busy creating right here at home.
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Kurdistan capitalismQuote of the dayIf we can't make a difference, at least we can make some noise. Amy Williams of North Georgia Pediatric Therapies, speaking about changes to Medicaid in Georgia, including cuts or elimination of certain services for children, and a change in billing from direct reimbursement of providers by Medicaid, to a system in which Medicaid reimburses private health insurance companies who will take over billing, with providers required to then obtain reimbursement from the insurance companies. If "welfare reform" is a success....As you may have heard, welfare reform under Clinton had its 10th birthday this past Tuesday. And all "right-thinking" conservatives hailed and toasted and praised until their servants called them to dinner. The phony bias claim about Judge Taylor in the NSA caseThis burns my butt as bad as anything the propaganda mill has done in quite some time. So the pseudo-watchdog group "Judicial Watch" claims that Judge Taylor, who recently ruled that the NSA warrantless surveillance program was unconstitutional, is so biased that her failure to recuse herself calls for "investigation," and, by implication, no one should take her ruling in the case seriously. You don't need credit counselling, you need Christian credit counsellingThese days, businesses seem to see an immediate advantage to popping "Christian" in front of the description of services offered. So now we have "Christian credit counseling" and "Christian debt consolidation." As if being Christian changed the advice you're going to get. Nastier, Deeper RecessionUh-oh. Either it's time to circle the wagons or it's tin-foil-hat time... Hey, Ford? GM? You Might Want To Read This!Attention, executives of Ford and General Motors: Did you wonder why your sales are suffering? Please check this out.... Those conservative priorities and values: sex above allHere's a great headline for the times, don't you think? Conservatives Try to Curtail Hotel Porn Quote of the dayI'm disappointed in my party. It's the Republicans where we're running into the most roadblocks.
Paula Tuck, Utah mother who is trying to get the state legislature to mandate and fund a full-time nurse in every school statewide after her 10-year old daughter almost died from giving herself too much asthma medication. Draft? Hell no! Call back the guys who already served.What do you do when you have a shortage of marines to fight what you consider to be a crucial war in a far off place? You sure don't institute a draft to get the needed manpower, so you have to involuntarily recall Marines from the Ready Reserve. |
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