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October 31
Jan Vermeer van Delft
1632 – 1675
John Keats
1795 – 1821
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posted October 30, 2005.
Posted October 30, 2005.
The American death toll in Iraq has passed 2,000. Does anyone believe that if John Kerry had been elected last year it would not have? [Ronn Neff]
Another question. What's the American death toll in Afghanistan? Why isn't that number as well known? [RN]
Posted October 30, 2005.
Scowcroft represents what I think of as the Dark Suit wing of American imperialism. Goldberg describes him as "a leading proponent of the 'realist' school of foreign-policy thinking" as distinguished from the neocon "transformationalists" surrounding the current Bush.
In "The Republican Rift," the New Yorker's Amy Davidson interviews Jeffrey Goldberg about his interview with Brent Scowcroft, the first President Bush's national-security advisor. The latter interview has yet to be posted on line and for the moment appears only in the magazine's print edition for October 31. I'll link to the Scowcroft interview itself when it becomes accessible.
Especially in light of its shrill, shrieking anti-capitalist enemies, many friends of freedom tend to look warmly on Wal-Mart and celebrate the entrepreneurial triumph of its founder. But now the company's CEO is calling for an increase in the minimum wage. What's going on? At the Mises Site, Lew Rockwell offers some informed speculation, reminding us what state regulation of business has always really been about in this country: "Wal-Mart Warms to the State." [NS]
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