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...nearly triple the average tenure of a White House chief of staff. He is spoken of worshipfully by his underlings, and is one of the few White House officials that other aides will tell you they love. But in the lobbyist/strategist/pollster coterie, he was getting the bulk of the blame for the White House?s recent self-inflicted wounds...
...their book, A Life That Matters, Terri's parents and siblings disagree. The Schindlers blame Michael for her death and slam U.S. courts for allowing the removal of her feeding tube, equating that with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany. "Terri was killed for no reason," says her sister Suzanne...
...toppling Saddam Hussein, consider that the worst repressor of individual freedom in the Middle East?Iran?is still busy fomenting strife among its neighbors. Its hand shows up in not just Iraq but also Syria and Lebanon. It is convenient for Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, to blame the U.S. for Iraq's current troubles while his agents are busy there. Iran's militant regime is sowing chaos in the Middle East as it goes flat out to develop nuclear weapons. It needs a distracted West and a war-torn Iraq to accomplish that goal. The sooner...
...could complain about the unfortunate timing of this midterm (four days after my thesis was due), and I could complain about how my request for an extension was declined (firmly), but I won’t. I can accept the blame for my lack of preparation: it’s water under the bridge, and frankly, the true contrarian in me is glad that I didn’t waste my brain space re-learning the intricacies of hormone pathways...
...there are moments of true beauty and transcendence in the movie. Rather, “V for Vendetta” is destroyed by sheer pettiness. Need a reason for the world’s collapse into anarchy, a basic premise of the movie’s storyline? Easy, blame it on the Iraq war (“America’s war grew worse and worse” the script ominously tells us). Need a ready-made authoritarian figure? Make him white, conservative, and religious, and make his party’s symbol the Christian cross. Need targets of discrimination...