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The Washington Post has an article which talks about a request inserted into the Senate health care bill for $100 million for construction of a Connecticut hospital.  The senator responsible for it was Chris Dodd (D-CT).  The spending request was inserted into the bill behind closed doors.  Given the sensitivity of the health care bill, Senate majority leader [...]

This week the Senate held hearings on the safety problems of the subway system in Washington.  Naturally, politicians like Senator Mikulski (D-MD) blamed Metro officials for the problems.  Yet if one looks at things objectively they would realize many of the problems are not the fault of Metro officials, but of the politicians, who over the years, made bad public [...]

The Washington Post continues to publish article written by liberal Catholics and non-Catholics who enjoy nothing more than criticizing the Church’s beliefs and teachings.  The latest is by Colman McCarthy called Catholic education, then and now.  In this article, Mr. McCarthy interviews three professors who teach at Catholic colleges and universities, asking them what are some [...]

There is an article in the latest issue of The Economist, which discusses Syria’s economic and political conditions.  Part of it says: (Syria’s) GDP, its foreign trade and the value of loans to its private sector have all nearly doubled in the past four years, as reforms have tapped suppressed entrepreneurial vigour.  For decades Damascus looked [...]