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...mishmash of defeated parties lacking proposals. Even that wishful democratic stance may be gone now. On Monday, Chavez acknowledged that his government wants to ideologize Venezuelan society in order to phase out an "imperialist" way of thinking imposed in the past. "They accuse us of ideologizing and I say yes, of course," Chavez said on Monday. "Who has said the contrary?" The time to differ with Chavez is over for foreign visitors and may soon be up for his domestic opponents as well...
...issuing a patriotic challenge: Let’s create the best condom campaign possible to promote safe sex in the States, and then put it all over schools, television, and, yes, subways. I’m sure that with our superior wit, determination, and punning abilities, we can far surpass every other country once we put our minds to it. And if not, we can always adopt the German approach, but substitute our own slogans, our own condoms, and our own vegetables. American potatoes are sexier anyway...
...mediocrity we already have." John Chen, the chairman and ceo of Sybase, a California software company (and a man whose parents fled Shanghai for Hong Kong after the communists took over in China), says: "We are not equipped as an economy to go to the next knowledge base. Yes, we have the best university system in the world, but we're not feeding that system. We're not investing in creativity." Indeed, because U.S. college education has become so prohibitively expensive, the proportion of American workers with college degrees is actually expected to drop over the next 15 years...
...Does it tell us that we don't value young inner-city kids as much as soldiers? Yes, but like anything involving guns, nothing is that simple in America. One reason more people aren't outraged about the deaths of schoolchildren is that they don't know how to fix it. As Kahan and others have found in repeated studies, Americans see guns not through a lens of 20/20 facts but through an elaborate stained-glass window. Are you a big proponent of authority? If so, you probably see guns as a way to make the world safer...
...hear only one sentence about Iraq: I'll get out as soon as possible. They're not so interested in the nuances of partition plans and mine-resistant vehicles. They are, as always, besotted with domesticity. Their iconic voter is Michelle Griffin, in tears over health insurance, and, yes, it is time we did something about that. But Biden's message-that foreign policy is complicated, that Iraq and its consequences can't just be wished away, that a supple alternative to Republican overseas bullying must be found-is the most important of 2008. And it is the reason...