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Tue, 19 Dec 2006

Seems my post yesterday was fairly timely. Here's a similar piece by a better (and better informed) writer entitled "The United States Is Insolvent."

Oh, and Iran announced today that they will no longer trade in oil with dollars; they are shifting their currency reserves and basis to Euros.

Posted at 14:56 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink] [Reload all] [E-mail]

Good For Them

A faculty group at SMU sends a letter to the Board asking them to kill any plans to host the George W Bush Presidential library.

[T]he letter-writers object to the W Library because of Bush's policies, seeing the library as symbolizing SMU's endorsement of "attitudes and actions widely deemed as ethically egregious: degradation of habeas corpus, outright denial of global warming, flagrant disregard for international treaties, alienation of long-term U.S. allies, environmental predation, shameful disrespect for gay persons and their rights, a preemptive war based on false and misleading premises, and a host of other erosions of respect for the global human community and for this good Earth on which our flourishing depends...antithetical to the teaching, scholarship, and ethical thinking that best represents Southern Methodist University."

It's so nice to see some sanity seeping slowly back into our national dialog. Good for them.

Posted at 13:44 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink] [Reload all] [E-mail]