Let me start off by saying that Reagan is the President of my youth, the President that as a child I trusted to keep the missiles from falling, who grieved the astronauts, and who – at the time, I thought – single-handedly defeated communism. You can solidly put me down in the “not a fan” column. Yet I still think he deserves a place on our currency.
I’ll make this brief.We are not the first nation to tackle Afghanistan, and we will likely not be the last.
As a nation, America is accustomed to fighting wars with other nations.
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One of the more irritating of our media’s obsessions is the visit to the local diner to ascertain what ‘regular’ Americans are thinking about the issues of the day. Don’t let the fact that the average cranky, homogeneous, low-information diner visitor scarcely resembles the entirety of America stop you.
The reason I mention this is an observation I’ve made with few data points and no research.
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Daily Links for January 15th through February 3rd
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