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POPSAmerican Calcutta - The Living Dead of San Francisco You don't have to look far to see the results and effects of liberal government. Take New Orleans. Ponder the hoards of disgusting homeless in California, and particularly San Francisco. We need a new CCC to put these people into camps, teach them trades, and put them to work on our crumbling infrastructure. Homelessness isn't a phenomenon of poor economic times, it's a direct result of democrats' addicting people to handouts which removes hope and self motivation.
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POPSOn Iraq - domocrats' State of Denial Why is top-down national reconciliation as yet unattainable? Because decades of Saddam Hussein's totalitarianism followed by the brutality of the post-invasion insurgency destroyed much of Iraq's political infrastructure, causing Iraqis to revert to the most basic political attachment -- tribe and locality. Gen. David Petraeus's genius has been to adapt American strategy to capitalize on that development, encouraging the emergence of and allying ourselves with tribal and provincial leaders -- without waiting for cosmic national deliverance from the newly constructed and still dysfunctional constitutional apparatus in Baghdad. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is in disarray, the Sunni insurgency in decline, the Shiite militias quiescent, the capital city reviving. Are we now to reverse course and abandon all this because parliament cannot ratify the reconciliation already occurring on the ground?
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POPSBridge Structural Problems Known America's infrastructure is aging and in need of lots of work. The reports and studies on this bridge pointed to problems, and these problems had been known and ignored for a long time. It will be interesting to see where the chain of responsibility goes, and then look at which political party members were in that decision chain. My guess is there has been a lot of pandering and contract letting to minorities and other liberal practices.