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August 28, 2001
Editorials
Least, lowest and last?
Real leadership will be required to prevent Tallahassee's looming budget crisis from doingfurther damage to the state's essential services.
Condit's creepy non-answers
What were U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's lawyers, media advisers, political consultants and other spin doctors thinking? Couldn't they have anticipated that their client would come across as a creepy, programmed, granite-faced prevaricator during his interview last week with ABC's Connie Chung? The California Democrat's repetitive non-answers to questions about the nature of his relationship with missing intern Chandra Levy were merely annoying. His attempts to cast himself as a victim of media overkill were predictable. But his insidious criticism of Levy's grieving family was truly repellent.
Letters
Tax cut is a blueprint for lower spending
It's obvious to me that only a dedicated liberal could look at a check to taxpayers from the Internal Revenue Service as a "scam." It's really worrying the liberals that President Bush and the Republicans are returning money to millions of American taxpayers. This has the Democrats so upset they are saying that the tax checks are a way to "bribe voters with their own money." Even if it's true, it is far preferable to the Democrats' strategy of bribing voters with other people's money.
Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.
Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.
Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.
Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.
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