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   Dan Savage, the brilliant and foul-mouthed sex columnist, has become one of the most important ethicists in America. Are we screwed?
 The federal government is supposed to issue new rules about debt levels for students in for-profit colleges. In the meantime, the states are working on their own regulations.
 Washingtons budget hawks want to decimate the federal workforce to shrink the deficit. It will have the opposite effect.
 There arent nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of Americas police. So we got these guys instead.
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There's a great scene in the TV movie about Albrecht Speer (starring Rutger Hauer) from back in the day. It's 1940, and the Germans have been bombing the hell out of the UK, so the British launched a bomber raid on Berlin. It was a weak raid, that only did cosmetic damage, at best. Probably a waste a resources. (Much like the American raid on Tokyo in early '42.) Speer (Hauer) is going to work in the Chancellery and runs into his secretary. As they step over debris from bomb damage, his secretary plaintively asks, 'Why are they doing this?' And Speer says, 'Because they're trying to win.' From my point of view, the situation could have been reversed, and the point would still apply. Since the R's have no better capabilities to do anything about a bill they don't like than this, this is what they're going to do. I'm not in favor of the R's doing this, but I do think it's a shame the D's couldn't muster the same will to fight, back when Bush was behaving in unconstitutional and illegal ways. Of course, back then, I was informed that that would be mean and the D's shouldn't do that. max Post a comment
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