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...Congress alone isn't to blame for the skewed funding. The Executive Branch was left with exceptional leeway to spend the remaining 60% of the funds any which way--including according to risk. But first in 2002 and then again in 2003 and 2004, under the newly created Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Branch just split the money according to each state's population...
...have only the media to blame for the circus-like atmosphere surrounding issues like Janet Jackson's Super Bowl fiasco, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and same-sex marriages. If the media toned down the rhetoric and images, perhaps Americans would not be impervious to the genuine violence that pervades our culture and would focus on the election's serious issues. RALPH J. PALMER Schaumburg...
...that have turned out to be divinely revelatory. Bill Clinton-the exemplar of baby-boom licentiousness and moral relativism-was brought low by a thong-flashing Gomorrean hussy; in the subsequent public scourging, his debauchery yielded more profound character flaws: his tendency to lawyer the truth, pity himself and blame others. And George W. Bush? This most publicly religious of Presidents has been set upon by a series of Old Testament prophets-first, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, ranting in the desert about the wages of fiscal irresponsibility, and now Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism expert, who evangelized before 9/11...
...hand in 9/11. In the aftermath of 9/11, Bush rejected Wolfowitz's attempts to make Iraq the first front in the war on terror. And if the President of the United States spoke "testily " 24 hours after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, well, can you blame...
...Mired in the paranoia of an election year, Bush has set a firm date for the transfer of power to local authorities—June 30, well in time to disassociate his presidency from the volatile situation on the ground in Iraq. The president will be able to blame the mess—the suicide bombings, random violence, rampant unemployment and poor social services that plague the country—on the Iraqi administrators nominally in charge, rather than take responsibility for unimpressive reconstruction policy...