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Politics and Culture - April 2008

Rocky Balboa & The Presidential Election

April 21st 2008 15:34
As we prepare for the showdown tomorrow in the Pennsylvania Primary between the two fierce Democratic competitors of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, I felt the time was right to honor the state of Pennsylvania by comparing the three remaining national big party canidates to that of the Philadelphia mythical hero Rocky Balboa.


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Word to Senator Boxer: Iraq’s Economy is in the Toilet

April 14th 2008 07:20
During the Senate Armed Services April 8 panel Senator Barbara Boxer asked General David Petraeus why the U.S. still pays the Iraqi militia. “We should not be paying off that militia. We have nothing but raging deficits. Why wouldn't we ask them to pay for the cost of that program?”

The reasons why Iraq is not able to pay its militia are simple: Life in Iraq is rough, and the economy is weak. Forty-three percent of Iraqis live on less than a dollar a day, Oxfam International reported last July. The unemployment rate in Iraq as of May 2007 was 60 percent in areas where a curfew was not in effect, according to a Brookings Institute report. The consumer price inflation in 2006 was fifty percent. Forty percent of Iraq’s professionals have left the country since the 2003 invasion by U.S. troops


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