Friday, November 19, 2004
Oddly, there seems to be more anger and disenfranchisement in the enfranchised. I don't think I've ever seen a time when the party that controlled the Senate, the House, the White House and the Supreme Court was so out of sorts about how little respect they get. At a certain point you want to say, "OK, Goliath. Stop pretending.- Jon Stewart
Health Care / Tax “Reform”, Bush Style The formula: More tax cuts mostly for the wealthy, more people without health insurance.
The Bush administration is eyeing an overhaul of the tax code that would drastically cut, if not eliminate, taxes on savings and investment, but it is unlikely to try to replace the existing tax code with a single flat income tax rate or a national sales tax, according to several sources familiar with ongoing tax deliberations.
Instead the administration plans to push major amendments that would shield interest, dividends and capitals gains from taxation, expand tax breaks for business investment and take other steps intended to simplify the system and encourage economic growth, according to several people who are advising the White House or are familiar with the deliberations.
The changes are meant to be revenue-neutral. To pay for them, the administration is considering eliminating the deduction of state and local taxes on federal income tax returns and scrapping the business tax deduction for employer-provided health insurance, the advisers said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58554-2004Nov17.html
Frank Rich on the Saving Private Ryan flap: Sunday’s upcoming NYTimes column
For anyone who doubts that we are entering a new era, let's flash back just a few years. "Saving Private Ryan," with its "CSI"-style disembowelments and expletives undeleted, was nationally broadcast by ABC on Veteran's Day in both 2001 and 2002 without incident, and despite the protests of family-values groups. What has changed between then and now? A government with the zeal to control both information and culture has received what it calls a mandate. Media owners who once might have thought that complaints by the American Family Association about a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" would go nowhere are keenly aware that the administration wants to reward its base. Merely the threat that the F.C.C. might punish a TV station or a network is all that's needed to push them onto the slippery slope of self-censorship before anyone in Washington even bothers to act. This is McCarthyism, "moral values" style.
What makes the "Ryan" case both chilling and a harbinger of what's to come is that it isn't about Janet Jackson and sex but about the presentation of war at a time when we are fighting one. That some of the companies whose stations refused to broadcast "Saving Private Ryan" also own major American newspapers in cities as various as Providence and Atlanta leaves you wondering what other kind of self-censorship will be practiced next. If these media outlets are afraid to show a graphic Hollywood treatment of a 60-year-old war starring the beloved Tom Hanks because the feds might fine them, toy with their licenses or deny them permission to expand their empires, might they defensively soften their news divisions' efforts to present the graphic truth of an ongoing war? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/21rich.html?oref=login&8hpib=&pagewanted=print&position
Iran: Deja vu all over again? Not only Yogi Berra is wondering: So, Iran has wmd”? The Europeans prefer diplomacy, but we’re not signing off.
Before you get too nervous, Iran is not Iraq: it is stronger economically and militarily, probably too strong for the Bushies who, like Senior and Reagan, prefer much weaker victims, and there are no available troops. But, then, our Rulers are not exactly rational.
An Iranian opposition group says it has new evidence that Iran is producing enriched uranium at a covert Defense Ministry facility in Tehran that has not been disclosed to United Nations inspectors.
The group, the National Council for Resistance in Iran, is planning to announce its finding in Paris on Wednesday. The group says that inspection of the site would demonstrate that Iran is secretly trying to produce nuclear weapons even while promising to freeze a critical part of its declared nuclear program, which it maintains is intended purely for civilian purposes. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/international/middleeast/17iran.html?oref=login
Mending Fences
If our government had been infiltrated by a team of Chinese, Japanese and radical Islamic individuals, they couldn’t do a better job of sabotaging this country. At minimum, the next 4 years should further strengthen China and Europe while our economic strength and reputation ebb further and we become more militarized, messianic and dumbed-down.
A sign of the times: unlike in the past, Old Europe is not bowing down to the Administration. Case in point, Chirac:
French President Jacques Chirac has said in a newspaper interview that Britain has gained nothing from its support for the United States-led invasion of Iraq.
Chirac said he had urged Britain before the invasion to press U.S. President George W. Bush to revive the Middle East peace process in return for London's support.
"Well, Britain gave its support but I did not see much in return," Chirac was quoted as saying in Tuesday's Times. "I am not sure that it is in the nature of our American friends at the moment to return favours systematically." http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041116/325/f6onu.html
Republican Ethics: DeLay Protected [The basic AP report]
Moving to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay, House Republicans want to change party rules to ensure that DeLay retains his post if a Texas grand jury indicts him as it did with three of his political associates.
The House Republican Conference, composed of all GOP members in the chamber, was to vote Wednesday to modify a requirement that would force DeLay to step aside if charged with a felony requiring at least a two-year prison term.
Party rules require leaders to relinquish their posts after a felony indictment, but the change would eliminate the requirement for non-federal indictments.
Electoral Fraud
A research team at UC Berkeley will report that irregularities
associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded
130,000 - 260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in
Florida in the 2004 presidential election. The study shows an unexplained discrepancy between votes for President Bush in counties where electronic voting machines were used versus counties using traditional voting methods. Discrepancies this large or larger rarely arise by chance -- the probability is less than 0.1 percent. The research team, led by Professor Michael Hout, will formally disclose results of the study at the press conference.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/sfth040_1.html
Progressive Talk Radio Progressing
Air America, the fledgling progressive talk-radio network, says it's here to stay and "very encouraged" by the response it's gotten so far.
"In terms of affiliates, we are today where we thought we would be at the beginning of our third year," says President Jon Sinton of the network that started in March and is heard here on WLIB (1190 AM).
While Air America suffered the embarrassing loss of its Los Angeles and Chicago affiliates, he notes that it added Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, San Diego and other major cities and now has 39 outlets.
Sinton also says advertising is "well ahead of projections."
Air America, which in most cities doesn't have as powerful a signal as its talk competitors, is a middle-of-the-pack station in most ratings. In New York this summer, it averaged 1.6% of its target 25- to 54-year-old audience.
While talk stations traditionally build an audience slowly, Sinton says the network has found "a real hunger out there for a [nonconservative] voice on the radio." http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/v-pfriendly/story/253554p-216960c.html
Lieberman: Moving Further “Right” The Hartford Courant reports on his vying for a job in the Bush Administration.
Joe Lieberman respects the presidency and likes being wooed. And so, he said Tuesday, he's not ruling out a Bush Cabinet appointment. "I am a traditionalist," the Connecticut Democratic senator said. "If the president ever calls, you'd have to consider it. But I am very happy to be in the Senate."http://www.ctnow.com/news/nationworld/hc-joecabinet1117.artnov17,1,7736977.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld
Russia to Send Troops to Iraq? Recurring story.
Russia has agreed to send a small number of troops to Iraq to protect oil wells and support the U.S.-led military campaign there, an aide in the Bush administration has said. The Russian Kommersant-Vlast magazine spoke with the aide on conditions of anonymity, and he said that he had heard the information at a recent meeting in the White House. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/11/17/iraq.shtml
Loyalty, Ideology Trumps Competence. Just thought I’d underscore the sum result of the Bush appointments and the cleansing of the CIA. I never thought I’d be worried about career “spooks” at the Agency, but they’re being driven out so that only Right-wing Republican “information” will be “provided” to Bush.
It’s time for the CIA guys to either stay and fight or leave and speak out. And, scoundrel Robert Novak’s column reminds us that John McCain is no progressive.
McCain told Goss the CIA is ''a dysfunctional organization. It has to be cleaned out.'' That is, the CIA does not perform its missions. McCain told Goss that as director, he must get rid of the old boys and bring in a new team at Langley. Moreover, McCain told me this week, ''with CIA leaks intended to harm the re-election campaign of the president of the United States, it is not only dysfunctional but a rogue organization.'' http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak18.html
Abuses by Homeland Security. Daniel Zwerdling (NPR) on immigrants being held in New Jersey, awaiting deportation, and receiving no redress through the U.S. legal system. This is a terrific two-parter that you access here http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=17-Nov-2004&prgId=2 or read, below.
NPR is by no means the only media company discovering that Bush administration officials are routinely ignoring or rejecting Freedom of Information Act requests. The nonpartisan Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has found that officials across the government routinely refuse to release documents, often on the grounds that it would interfere with "national security."
"This is by far the worst time that journalists have had (using FOIA) in more than 30 years," says Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4175948
Journalist in Iraq: A Testimonial. The Real Thing from Knight-Ridder reporter Hannah Allam
Baghdad has never been tougher for journalists. Treacherous roads and kidnapping squads restrict travel. "Embedding" with the military or going with Iraqi government officials is the safest way to leave the capital. Our ability to uncover and tell the truth about Iraq - good and bad - has suffered terribly.
At least 36 journalists have been killed covering this war. Everyone seems to know someone who's been taken hostage. We share our nightmares of terrorists cutting off our heads. Word of new abductions brings guilty relief: Thank God it wasn't me. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10206725.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Wal-Mart on Frontline: If you missed it, keep on alert. It was almost humorous to hear correspondent Hedrick Smith comment on our one-sided trading with China- ‘So, the United States is like a third-world country!’
"Wal-Mart," Gereffi continues, "has life-or-death decision over [almost] all the consumer goods industries that exist in the United States, because it is the number one supplier-retailer of most of our consumer goods -- not just clothes, shoes, toys, but home appliances, electronic products, sporting goods, bicycles, groceries, food."
At first blush, this seems a stark assertion. It comes as a shock because this isn't the way most of us think the global economy works. We don't imagine that retail chains are deciding whether goods should be produced in the U.S., China, Mexico or Bangladesh…
Case in point: Bill Nichol, CEO of Kentucky Derby Hosiery, a sock manufacturer that has supplied Wal-Mart for 40 years. He credits Wal-Mart with forcing his company to be more disciplined and efficient, but he adds: "Their message to us, surprisingly, is, 'There's a broad market out there. If you want to focus on the lowest-cost part of the market, it's obvious that you can't do that in the United States'." So half of Nichol's 1,500 U.S. employees will soon be out of work and he'll have to open plants in China and other low-cost countries to hang onto his Wal-Mart account.
We heard that story again and again from American manufacturers in sectors as diverse as electronics, apparel, bicycles, furniture, and textiles. They expressed private dismay at the relentless pressure from the likes of Wal-Mart and Target to cut costs to the bone in America and then, when that did not satisfy the mass retailers, more pressure to move production to China or elsewhere offshore. But most did not dare to go on camera and tell their story publicly for fear of jeopardizing their remaining sales to Wal-Mart. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/secrets/
Related: China Courting the World
"For a few years ahead, it will still be the United States as No. 1, but soon it will be China," Mr. Long, the son of a Thai businessman, confidently predicted as he showed off the stone, tiles and willow trees imported from China to decorate the courtyard at the Sirindhorn Chinese Language and Culture Center, which opened a year ago.
The center is part of China's expanding presence across Southeast Asia and the Pacific, where Beijing is making a big push to market itself and its language, similar to the way the United States promoted its culture and values during the cold war. It is not a hard sell, particularly to young Asians eager to cement cultural bonds as China deepens its economic and political interests in the region. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/international/asia/18asia.html?oref=login&oref=login&hp
Lawfuits and Wal-Mart …especially for educators up north…
Wal-Mart is not only the world's largest retailer, but also a magnet for employee complaints about off-the-clock work. It faces lawsuits in more than 30 states.
Wal-Mart says its deep pockets have made it an attractive target. Plaintiffs' lawyers counter that off-the-clock work is endemic at Wal-Mart because of the company's emphasis on keeping its costs low. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/business/19walmart.html?pagewanted=all
Pro-Life vs Anti-Abortion. Clarity on Now With Bill Moyers: Sister Joan Chittister
But I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking. If all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed and why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is. http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript346_full.html
-R
Health Care / Tax “Reform”, Bush Style The formula: More tax cuts mostly for the wealthy, more people without health insurance.
The Bush administration is eyeing an overhaul of the tax code that would drastically cut, if not eliminate, taxes on savings and investment, but it is unlikely to try to replace the existing tax code with a single flat income tax rate or a national sales tax, according to several sources familiar with ongoing tax deliberations.
Instead the administration plans to push major amendments that would shield interest, dividends and capitals gains from taxation, expand tax breaks for business investment and take other steps intended to simplify the system and encourage economic growth, according to several people who are advising the White House or are familiar with the deliberations.
The changes are meant to be revenue-neutral. To pay for them, the administration is considering eliminating the deduction of state and local taxes on federal income tax returns and scrapping the business tax deduction for employer-provided health insurance, the advisers said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58554-2004Nov17.html
Frank Rich on the Saving Private Ryan flap: Sunday’s upcoming NYTimes column
For anyone who doubts that we are entering a new era, let's flash back just a few years. "Saving Private Ryan," with its "CSI"-style disembowelments and expletives undeleted, was nationally broadcast by ABC on Veteran's Day in both 2001 and 2002 without incident, and despite the protests of family-values groups. What has changed between then and now? A government with the zeal to control both information and culture has received what it calls a mandate. Media owners who once might have thought that complaints by the American Family Association about a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" would go nowhere are keenly aware that the administration wants to reward its base. Merely the threat that the F.C.C. might punish a TV station or a network is all that's needed to push them onto the slippery slope of self-censorship before anyone in Washington even bothers to act. This is McCarthyism, "moral values" style.
What makes the "Ryan" case both chilling and a harbinger of what's to come is that it isn't about Janet Jackson and sex but about the presentation of war at a time when we are fighting one. That some of the companies whose stations refused to broadcast "Saving Private Ryan" also own major American newspapers in cities as various as Providence and Atlanta leaves you wondering what other kind of self-censorship will be practiced next. If these media outlets are afraid to show a graphic Hollywood treatment of a 60-year-old war starring the beloved Tom Hanks because the feds might fine them, toy with their licenses or deny them permission to expand their empires, might they defensively soften their news divisions' efforts to present the graphic truth of an ongoing war? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/21rich.html?oref=login&8hpib=&pagewanted=print&position
Iran: Deja vu all over again? Not only Yogi Berra is wondering: So, Iran has wmd”? The Europeans prefer diplomacy, but we’re not signing off.
Before you get too nervous, Iran is not Iraq: it is stronger economically and militarily, probably too strong for the Bushies who, like Senior and Reagan, prefer much weaker victims, and there are no available troops. But, then, our Rulers are not exactly rational.
An Iranian opposition group says it has new evidence that Iran is producing enriched uranium at a covert Defense Ministry facility in Tehran that has not been disclosed to United Nations inspectors.
The group, the National Council for Resistance in Iran, is planning to announce its finding in Paris on Wednesday. The group says that inspection of the site would demonstrate that Iran is secretly trying to produce nuclear weapons even while promising to freeze a critical part of its declared nuclear program, which it maintains is intended purely for civilian purposes. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/international/middleeast/17iran.html?oref=login
Mending Fences
If our government had been infiltrated by a team of Chinese, Japanese and radical Islamic individuals, they couldn’t do a better job of sabotaging this country. At minimum, the next 4 years should further strengthen China and Europe while our economic strength and reputation ebb further and we become more militarized, messianic and dumbed-down.
A sign of the times: unlike in the past, Old Europe is not bowing down to the Administration. Case in point, Chirac:
French President Jacques Chirac has said in a newspaper interview that Britain has gained nothing from its support for the United States-led invasion of Iraq.
Chirac said he had urged Britain before the invasion to press U.S. President George W. Bush to revive the Middle East peace process in return for London's support.
"Well, Britain gave its support but I did not see much in return," Chirac was quoted as saying in Tuesday's Times. "I am not sure that it is in the nature of our American friends at the moment to return favours systematically." http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041116/325/f6onu.html
Republican Ethics: DeLay Protected [The basic AP report]
Moving to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay, House Republicans want to change party rules to ensure that DeLay retains his post if a Texas grand jury indicts him as it did with three of his political associates.
The House Republican Conference, composed of all GOP members in the chamber, was to vote Wednesday to modify a requirement that would force DeLay to step aside if charged with a felony requiring at least a two-year prison term.
Party rules require leaders to relinquish their posts after a felony indictment, but the change would eliminate the requirement for non-federal indictments.
Electoral Fraud
A research team at UC Berkeley will report that irregularities
associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded
130,000 - 260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in
Florida in the 2004 presidential election. The study shows an unexplained discrepancy between votes for President Bush in counties where electronic voting machines were used versus counties using traditional voting methods. Discrepancies this large or larger rarely arise by chance -- the probability is less than 0.1 percent. The research team, led by Professor Michael Hout, will formally disclose results of the study at the press conference.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/sfth040_1.html
Progressive Talk Radio Progressing
Air America, the fledgling progressive talk-radio network, says it's here to stay and "very encouraged" by the response it's gotten so far.
"In terms of affiliates, we are today where we thought we would be at the beginning of our third year," says President Jon Sinton of the network that started in March and is heard here on WLIB (1190 AM).
While Air America suffered the embarrassing loss of its Los Angeles and Chicago affiliates, he notes that it added Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, San Diego and other major cities and now has 39 outlets.
Sinton also says advertising is "well ahead of projections."
Air America, which in most cities doesn't have as powerful a signal as its talk competitors, is a middle-of-the-pack station in most ratings. In New York this summer, it averaged 1.6% of its target 25- to 54-year-old audience.
While talk stations traditionally build an audience slowly, Sinton says the network has found "a real hunger out there for a [nonconservative] voice on the radio." http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/v-pfriendly/story/253554p-216960c.html
Lieberman: Moving Further “Right” The Hartford Courant reports on his vying for a job in the Bush Administration.
Joe Lieberman respects the presidency and likes being wooed. And so, he said Tuesday, he's not ruling out a Bush Cabinet appointment. "I am a traditionalist," the Connecticut Democratic senator said. "If the president ever calls, you'd have to consider it. But I am very happy to be in the Senate."http://www.ctnow.com/news/nationworld/hc-joecabinet1117.artnov17,1,7736977.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld
Russia to Send Troops to Iraq? Recurring story.
Russia has agreed to send a small number of troops to Iraq to protect oil wells and support the U.S.-led military campaign there, an aide in the Bush administration has said. The Russian Kommersant-Vlast magazine spoke with the aide on conditions of anonymity, and he said that he had heard the information at a recent meeting in the White House. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/11/17/iraq.shtml
Loyalty, Ideology Trumps Competence. Just thought I’d underscore the sum result of the Bush appointments and the cleansing of the CIA. I never thought I’d be worried about career “spooks” at the Agency, but they’re being driven out so that only Right-wing Republican “information” will be “provided” to Bush.
It’s time for the CIA guys to either stay and fight or leave and speak out. And, scoundrel Robert Novak’s column reminds us that John McCain is no progressive.
McCain told Goss the CIA is ''a dysfunctional organization. It has to be cleaned out.'' That is, the CIA does not perform its missions. McCain told Goss that as director, he must get rid of the old boys and bring in a new team at Langley. Moreover, McCain told me this week, ''with CIA leaks intended to harm the re-election campaign of the president of the United States, it is not only dysfunctional but a rogue organization.'' http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak18.html
Abuses by Homeland Security. Daniel Zwerdling (NPR) on immigrants being held in New Jersey, awaiting deportation, and receiving no redress through the U.S. legal system. This is a terrific two-parter that you access here http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=17-Nov-2004&prgId=2 or read, below.
NPR is by no means the only media company discovering that Bush administration officials are routinely ignoring or rejecting Freedom of Information Act requests. The nonpartisan Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has found that officials across the government routinely refuse to release documents, often on the grounds that it would interfere with "national security."
"This is by far the worst time that journalists have had (using FOIA) in more than 30 years," says Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4175948
Journalist in Iraq: A Testimonial. The Real Thing from Knight-Ridder reporter Hannah Allam
Baghdad has never been tougher for journalists. Treacherous roads and kidnapping squads restrict travel. "Embedding" with the military or going with Iraqi government officials is the safest way to leave the capital. Our ability to uncover and tell the truth about Iraq - good and bad - has suffered terribly.
At least 36 journalists have been killed covering this war. Everyone seems to know someone who's been taken hostage. We share our nightmares of terrorists cutting off our heads. Word of new abductions brings guilty relief: Thank God it wasn't me. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10206725.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Wal-Mart on Frontline: If you missed it, keep on alert. It was almost humorous to hear correspondent Hedrick Smith comment on our one-sided trading with China- ‘So, the United States is like a third-world country!’
"Wal-Mart," Gereffi continues, "has life-or-death decision over [almost] all the consumer goods industries that exist in the United States, because it is the number one supplier-retailer of most of our consumer goods -- not just clothes, shoes, toys, but home appliances, electronic products, sporting goods, bicycles, groceries, food."
At first blush, this seems a stark assertion. It comes as a shock because this isn't the way most of us think the global economy works. We don't imagine that retail chains are deciding whether goods should be produced in the U.S., China, Mexico or Bangladesh…
Case in point: Bill Nichol, CEO of Kentucky Derby Hosiery, a sock manufacturer that has supplied Wal-Mart for 40 years. He credits Wal-Mart with forcing his company to be more disciplined and efficient, but he adds: "Their message to us, surprisingly, is, 'There's a broad market out there. If you want to focus on the lowest-cost part of the market, it's obvious that you can't do that in the United States'." So half of Nichol's 1,500 U.S. employees will soon be out of work and he'll have to open plants in China and other low-cost countries to hang onto his Wal-Mart account.
We heard that story again and again from American manufacturers in sectors as diverse as electronics, apparel, bicycles, furniture, and textiles. They expressed private dismay at the relentless pressure from the likes of Wal-Mart and Target to cut costs to the bone in America and then, when that did not satisfy the mass retailers, more pressure to move production to China or elsewhere offshore. But most did not dare to go on camera and tell their story publicly for fear of jeopardizing their remaining sales to Wal-Mart. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/secrets/
Related: China Courting the World
"For a few years ahead, it will still be the United States as No. 1, but soon it will be China," Mr. Long, the son of a Thai businessman, confidently predicted as he showed off the stone, tiles and willow trees imported from China to decorate the courtyard at the Sirindhorn Chinese Language and Culture Center, which opened a year ago.
The center is part of China's expanding presence across Southeast Asia and the Pacific, where Beijing is making a big push to market itself and its language, similar to the way the United States promoted its culture and values during the cold war. It is not a hard sell, particularly to young Asians eager to cement cultural bonds as China deepens its economic and political interests in the region. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/international/asia/18asia.html?oref=login&oref=login&hp
Lawfuits and Wal-Mart …especially for educators up north…
Wal-Mart is not only the world's largest retailer, but also a magnet for employee complaints about off-the-clock work. It faces lawsuits in more than 30 states.
Wal-Mart says its deep pockets have made it an attractive target. Plaintiffs' lawyers counter that off-the-clock work is endemic at Wal-Mart because of the company's emphasis on keeping its costs low. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/business/19walmart.html?pagewanted=all
Pro-Life vs Anti-Abortion. Clarity on Now With Bill Moyers: Sister Joan Chittister
But I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking. If all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed and why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is. http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript346_full.html
-R
