Michael Totten has an article about The Dream City of the Kurds. Really remarkable. Kurdistan has long been the exception to the Long Iraqi Nightmare. With the UN administering the region and free from Saddams bootheel, the Kurds have prospered and are as stable and Western friendly as Turkey. Perhaps even moreso. IMNHO, it shows just what Iraq can be and I pray, will be down the road. Read the whole thing.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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