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Stylistically Speaking, Barack Obama Could Hardly Be Further From Jimmy Carter If He Really Had Been Born In Kenya.

As With Almost Every Significant Aspect Of The Bush Presidency, Its Handling Of 9/11 Was A Catastrophe From Start To Finish.

Half The U.s. Population Owns Barely 2 Percent Of Its Wealth, Putting The United States Near Rwanda And Uganda And Below Such Nations As Pre-arab Spring Tunisia And Egypt When Measured By Degrees Of Income Inequality.

If Bloggers Are To Improve Our Public Discourse - Helping Busy And Usually Uninformed People Make Sense Of The World - It Is Necessary To Use Some Sort Of Standard With Which To Judge Their Reliability. Perhaps The Answer (strictly Advisory) Is A Body Of Their Peers. Perhaps Not.

The Word Liberal Has Been Employed As The Political Equivalent Of An Untreatable But Potentially Containable Social Disease -- The Kind That Could Be Contracted Merely By Going To A Foreign Movie Or Ordering A Decaf Latte, Or Worse, A Glass Of French Wine.