The Death of the Exclamation Point. Friends, I’m sad to let you know that within a week I’ll have to stop putting out The Chapin Nation! (not the MND one) as we reached our memory limit 6 weeks ago. I emailed blogger and they told me that we had used up our alotted space....
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Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man. I was suprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It’s definitely a polemical work and not anywhere near dispassionate in tone. Some conservatives have looked down on it because of its stridency but I think they’re short-sighted to do so. I think an irreverant,...
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AUSTRALIA MATTERS An interesting email from one of my American readers: “Perusing your postings, it occurred to me that your readers might not realize just how important your forthcoming elections are. Not just for your country, but for the course of the entire free world. Mr. Howard has shown a sort of political courage...
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Thought for the Day… I find myself wondering whether the past 35 years or so of American history will go down as a parallel experience to the Soviet experience in Russia, the Nazi episode in Germany and the “Cultural Revolution” in China in the 60′s, situations in which the insane and abnormal become “normal”....
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AUSTRALIA MATTERS An interesting email from one of my American readers: “Perusing your postings, it occurred to me that your readers might not realize just how important your forthcoming elections are. Not just for your country, but for the course of the entire free world. Mr. Howard has shown a sort of political courage...
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Not according to this NYT piece. OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Where Did All the Jobs Go? NowhereBy DANIEL W. DREZNER Chicago  John Kerry is making the outsourcing of jobs by American companies a centerpiece of his campaign, telling audiences that “because of George Bush’s wrong choices, this country is continuing to ship good jobs overseas.”...
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Unfortunately, this does not surprise me at all. I really encourage people to try to understand where candidates stand on the issues, and that’s one of the reasons for a blog like this. A republic like the United States relies on informed voters, and I continue to urge our citizens to learn as much...
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Amnesty International and other trash… The Associated Press has just run a story which describes British hostage, Kenneth Bingley, begging Prime Minister Tony Blair to work to save his life. This is disgusting. I have heard alot of yammering about how peoples’ rights were violated at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib but I have not...
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From The Wall Street Journal: “WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew more rapidly this spring than an earlier report suggested, as businesses bulked up their stockpiles and the level of imports flowing into the country turned out to be lower than previously estimated. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that gross domestic product increased during...
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These people just don’t learn their lesson. Or, maybe they just want John Kerry to win so badly they they’re willing to look really bad to do it. Now they’re using bogus e-mails in their attempts to trick voters into thinking a military draft is coming. There’s more here.
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Look at this silliness. No, I think John Kerry should go after “unpersuadable voters”. As my eight year old daughter would say “Duh!”
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I consider this to be a serious blog, but I can’t help wondering what in the world happened to John Kerry’s skin in the past day or two. Not only are the Kerryites not capable of runnning an intellegent campaign, but they can’t even figure out a way to get their guy a normal...
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Here’s the latest from Pew Research. This is yet another poll showing a solid lead of about 8 points for President Bush. For all of the new attacks on Bush’s Iraqi policies, Kerry has not gained any ground . Why? Because even those people who aren’t happy with the way things are going do...
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