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...result. But at least he restrained domestic spending at the same time. As a Cato Institute report shows, the Gipper's total federal spending grew 6.8% in his first three years, compared with an increase of more than 15% by Bush. And Reagan had a Democratic House to blame, while Bush has Congress entirely under his party's control. In 1995 Tom DeLay, now the House majority leader, declared, "By the year 2002, we can have a Federal Government with a balanced budget, or we can continue down the present path towards total fiscal catastrophe." If Clintonomics was a "total...
Rich conservative republicans send their children to private schools and don't care if poor children are taught to read, write and think. These kids have little opportunity to escape the cycle of poverty. President Bush has to take a lot of the blame for the failure to fund Teach for America. This "compassionate Conservative" talks about quality education, but will not act to improve U.S. schools. "Leave no child behind" is a catchy phrase, but it doesn't help ensure a quality teacher in every classroom. ALLAN BOEHNE Monterey, Calif...
...this carnage is gaijin hubris?the belief, embraced by foolish foreigners, that one can get away with anything in Japan. Jessica Romano, a blond-bombshell nightclub hostess from Chicago, and Chris Ryan, a Floridian slacker and small-time drug pusher, have a particularly bad case. And who can blame them? Jessica spends her nights tending to infantile businessmen at a posh, Osaka club. Chris, a nobody back home, finds himself treated in Japan "like he was Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt"?after two months he has already bedded a dozen girls. So when Jessica hatches a scheme to kidnap...
Record companies blame file sharing for a 31 percent drop in compact disc sales since mid-2000—a number that may overstate the effect of sharing due to the contracting economy—but they should be finding ways to generate revenue that do not depend on litigation...
...surprisingly, India's more hard-line Hindu politicians have been quick to seize upon the possibility that Pakistan?not Gujarat?might be to blame for the Bombay attack. Visiting the scene of the blasts, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani declared, "Pakistan's nefarious designs are not limited to Kashmir or Punjab but to the whole of India." He specifically cited his suspicion that "SIMI has been acting in conjunction with the Lashkar-e-Toiba." Similarly, Gujarat's BJP chief minister, Narendra Modi, who returned to office last November on a wave of Hindu self-assertion, blames what he calls...