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US Vulnerability to China

…review of the bid, required under the Defense Production Act, to determine potential economic and security risks.” The New York Times: “Two Republican congressmen, Richard W. Pombo, chairman of the…

Fiscal Policy: Forty Years of Free Lunches

…years ago. About 20 years ago, I listened to Richard Rahn try to convince us that the 1964 tax cut was Lafferian supply-side effects only to hear him quote the…

Medicare CalPundit highlights this excerpt from a story on the investigation of Medicare honcho Thomas Scully’s squelching of Richard Foster’s estimate that the Republican Medicare Drug Plan would cost $540…

Ants Having Sex Richard Cohen in the Washington Post on how Bush and Cheney viewed, and continute to view, “ties” (or the lack thereof) between Saddam and al Qaeda: I’ll…

…that, I decided to take a conscious look. What did I find? An ad from the New Zealand Herald linking to a story on Richard Nixon: Five days into the…

…of the Post’s Sunday edition, support testimony by former White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke that the Bush administration was focused more on Iraq than the al- Qaeda terrorists blamed…

Richard Clarke on Meet the Press Sunday. Set your Tivo’s. Also, unless Jon Stewart was kidding, Clarke will be on The Daily Show Monday night. AB UPDATE: Dr. Rice on…

In the Loop Richard Clarke, in an interview with Salon, seems none to happy with Cheney: QUESTION: Vice President Cheney told Rush Limbaugh that you were not “in the loop,”…

…around.” This from Republican Senator Richard C. Shelby’s statement on. pp 93-94 of the Additional Views of Members of the Joint Inquiry You may recall Freeh from memorable episodes such…