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...Limits of Liberation I have a question for Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) [Nov. 3]: Does owning an animal, or holding and petting it, deprive it of liberty? Mark Dymiotis, Melbourne...
...Campaign '08: Memories... My own "moment to remember" of the 2008 campaign is illustrated by one of your voices, Laura Ingraham: the Republicans' utter lack of vision [Nov. 10]. From McCain down to state assembly candidates, the overwhelming majority of ads never carried the remotest hint of what the Republicans would do if elected. Instead, they produced laundry lists of reasons why not to vote for the opposition. Republican mouthpieces complain that their candidates don't get positive coverage in the "mainstream" media. If you have no message, you probably won't get much coverage. Dennis Sheehan, Waupaca, Wisconsin...
...Gadgets and Gizmos Your "Best Inventions" item on the Biochemical Energy Harvester suggests that if we strapped two of these generators to our knees we could produce five watts of power as we walk [Nov. 10]. Doing this for a little more than an hour a day would generate two kilowatt hours in a year. That would represent a saving of about 17 cents on an annual power bill. As my own bill exceeds $1000, such a tiny "saving" is amusing to contemplate. It is less amusing when we recognize that energy is needed to make this device. I estimate...
...Spreading the Wealth Around In his essay, Michael Kinsley agrees with Barack Obama that when governments spread wealth around it is "good for everybody" [Nov. 10]. Kinsley asks, "Who disagrees?" Anyone who knows anything of history would disagree with that assertion. Marx and Lenin advocated a similar idea: "From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs." The reality of a system where hard work is not rewarded is that people lose their incentive to work. That means there is less wealth to share, which is hardly "good for everybody." In the Soviet Union, it took about...
...days later from London, where he was head of foreign exchange for investment bank Merrill Lynch. It would be a few years before Key could extricate himself from the world of finance, and he entered Parliament in 2002; he became the party's leader four years later. And on Nov. 8, the political career launched by that call culminated in a resounding election victory for Key and National, ending nine years of Labour rule under Helen Clark. On the night, hundreds of supporters gathered outside Key's mansion in the affluent Auckland suburb of Parnell. "That doesn't normally happen...