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It’s time to withdraw from Iraq - an internal withdrawal that is.
General George Casey, the top U.S. general in Iraq, spoke today about when US troops can start handing over remaining ground operations to the Iraqis:
“I don’t have a date, but I can see over the next 12 to 18 months, the Iraqi security forces [...]

This is a post from June 2005 that seems timely because of this new study.
U.S. manufacturing employment has been in steady decline for decades now, that is a historical fact. So there has been a general concern that you hear often about the overall decline in U.S. manufacturing. A generation from now, all that will [...]

The world is never as simple as it may seem:
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Take that, Lou Dobbs. Despite much handwringing and political posturing, the surge of job outsourcing, by increasing productivity, has actually helped raise real wages for low-skilled U.S. workers, according to two Princeton University economists.
They countered critics of outsourcing, including high-profile [...]

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What can you say? The Aztecs weren’t a very nice bunch of people:
CALPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520.
Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archeological site near Mexico City show about [...]

Michael Totten interviews an Israeli peace activist who says:
“If the Arabs put down their arms, there will be peace. If the Jews put down their arms there won’t be any Jews left.”
Kind of hard to be a pacifist-type peace activist in an environment like that. Nothing like the fear of annihilation to challenge the oversimplified [...]

Why couldn’t the US have gradually transitioned to a situation like this?
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Record oil prices have made the world’s energy landscape a darkly foreboding place this year, inhospitable to optimism and celebration. Except in Brazil.
It has been something of a banner year here, full of milestones. The government predicts that for the [...]

Some figures from a Cato publication comparing the largely private US health care system to systems using single-payer government insurance. Single-payer systems do not appear to be all they are cracked up to be. Where would you rather be when you get sick?

At the site Alas, a blog, sociologist blogger Rachel S. asks this question:
If I came to your town or city, what aspects of the local culture would stand out?
For some reason, I took the time to answer the question in the comment box. Here is my answer:
In my town of 70,000 in north Texas you [...]

Will Collier at Vodkapundit posts about the new mandatory waiting periods for medical care in the UK. All systems of health care perform rationing in one way or another. With a government controlled system of universal health care, the rationing is done via government. Will comments:
With Hillary Clinton a sure thing to run for President, [...]