Category Archives: San Francisco Chronicle

Another New Deal is a Bad Deal

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Despite a projected $1 trillion deficit next year, President-elect Barack Obama has requested that Congress send him a $1 trillion stimulus bill by Jan. 20, so that he can immediately launch the New Deal II, putting people to work building infrastructure, roads, bridges, schools, transportation systems, green technologies, etc. In this, he seems to betray a belief in a pernicious myth, which holds that President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal ended the Great Depression. It … More >

With No Apologies, Let’s Move Out

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Indeed, where’s the outrage? With David Kay’s resignation, press interviews and Senate testimony, and the report issued earlier this month from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, disapproving of the decision to invade Iraq, we ve seen a renewed Democrat outrage and a seeming injection of credibility into their candidates issue-starved campaigns. (By the way what does Dean’s constant rant, “Take back the flag,” mean?) But the anti-war/anti-Bush coalition (for brevity, the AWAB’s) attacks on … More >

Straight Answers on War: Resolving to Use Force

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Ms. Ryan – In response to your distinctly disingenuous plea (editorial page, Sept. 29th) for straight answers to the questions posed by President Bush’s embrace of preemption, unilateralism, and reckless militarism (for brevity –PURM), let me try to oblige by asking you to consider the following scenario. Imagine the Bush White House takes your counsel and rejects PURM as too cowboy-like. But then, for example, suppose in the not so distant future, we learn through … More >