Daily Archives: 25 July 2007

20070725 World Watch Iraq- Here’s Your Evidence

There are two regular litanies I hear from well intentioned Americans who yet still support retreat in the face of the enemy in Iraq. First, they say that there is no evidence that we are succeeding in Iraq, which is why we should pull out. Second, they say that, if there is such evidence, then why doesn’t the media report it. Continue reading

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20070725 Politics- What’s in a Name?

Within political thinking, labels and names are an important part of defining categories of people who tend to think, act, and vote in certain ways. People of all political stripes use these labels both as a title for their own ways of thinking and as an indictment against the thinking of those who disagree with them. Continue reading

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