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...will need a policy to prevent a fiscal meltdown as the baby boomers retire. The hard truth is that we will need to raise taxes and substantially scale back entitlement benefits (while also restricting discretionary spending). The candidates offer lip service without acknowledging that major sacrifices will be necessary. That is the real courage deficit...
...9/11. My initial reaction is, Read the 9/11 Commission report - Osama bin Laden did it. But then again, we hear more and more that key evidence in the 9/11 Commission Report is based on abusive interrogation tactics. We have no idea whether the 9/11 suspects were telling the truth or telling someone else's truth to please their interrogators. I hope Hayden puts a line under this one too, although no doubt he's going to have to wait until the next Administration...
...Probably what draws Frank and Laurel together is their mutual capacity for truth telling, which may also explain why Laurel doesn't have a boy friend. Most guys don't much like women who lack the winsome gene. That's not a problem for Frank, and the course of their love and his rehabilitation runs relatively smoothly. This is in contradistinction to life in the Krzeminski mob back in Buffalo. They are being decimated by the rival O'Leary gang, whose sneering, sadistic leader (Dennis Farina) is in no mood to take prisoners. A sober Frank's odds-balancing presence...
...work day, in April, is a brilliant idea, and I can't wait to take part in it once my little girl is old enough to stop confusing "writer" with "waiter." Take Your Dog to Work Day--June 22--is a cynical copycat that for me confirms this cold truth: in my heart, my daughter and my dog are not equals...
...also true that no candidate - not even one as strongly branded in the public mind as Giuliani - entirely controls his public image. Three years ago this summer, John Kerry watched in dismay as his Vietnam record was turned against him by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Something similar could happen, if Giuliani isn't more careful, to Hizzoner's carefully crafted image as the scourge of wrongdoers the world over...