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July 2007



BUSH VOWS TO SCUTTLE SCHIP

Tuesday, 31 July 2007 2:34 P GMT-07
Bush vows to veto expansion of the SCHIP program because he fears it might work so well as to lead people to see the advantages of government healthcare programs.

REVIEWING SOME REVIEWS (SiCKO)

Monday, 23 July 2007 12:49 P GMT-07
I finally got a chance to see SiCKO last Friday.  It 's probably the most important film I have ever seen.  If we Americans finally wake up, open our minds, get off our backsides and make sure that our elected representatives do what is

OUTLANDISH AND ALARMING

Friday, 20 July 2007 8:33 P GMT-07
Bush's new gimmick is to try and sell the U.S. intervention in Iraq as something modeled on Korea reather than Vietnam is both outlandish and alarming and would only feed the anti-American nationalist and religious frenzy in the Middle East.

WHAT A CHARADE

Tuesday, 17 July 2007 9:29 A GMT-07
Remember when the present Iraqi "government" was "elected?"  Remember the exuberant bragging of Bush administration spokespersons about how all the "purple fingers" of Iraqi voters conclusively demonstrated that the

SOMETHING BEYOND AMAZING

Saturday, 14 July 2007 1:56 P GMT-07
If the film SiCKO generates the same audience reaction ("something beyond amazing") that this viewer witnessed, then SiCKO may well be the CURE for what ails our healthcare system in the U.S.

ARMS CONTROL R.I.P.

Friday, 13 July 2007 4:05 P GMT-07
Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell To Arms ends on a sad and tragic note as hopes for a happy future die.  Scott Ritter writes a kind of farewell to arms control and envisions the end of hopes for a happy future world.&n

J'ACCUSE!

Saturday, 7 July 2007 5:51 P GMT-07
Two U.S. presidents have been impeached, but neither was convicted and removed from office. There is a precedent for a president to resign from office - a quicker, cleaner way to solve the basic problem.

THAT MOB IN WASHINGTON

Tuesday, 3 July 2007 5:26 P GMT-07
As the fictional soap opera The Sopranos ends, the real life soap opera of "that mob in Washington" goes on... and on... with ever lower ratings.