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Thomas Friedman: 9/11 and 4/11

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

What doesn't the Bush crowd get? It's this: We don't have a "gasoline price problem." We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving a whole set of toxic trends that are harming our nation and world in many different ways. It is intensifying global warming, creating runaway global demand for oil and gas, weakening our currency by shifting huge amounts of dollars abroad to pay for oil imports, widening "energy poverty" across Africa, destroying plants and animals at record rates and fostering ever-stronger petro-dictatorships in Iran, Russia and Venezuela.

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Thomas Friedman: Charge It to My Kids

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

Of course, we can pay for the Iraq war without a tax increase. The question is, can we pay for it and be making the investments in infrastructure, science and education needed to propel our country into the 21st century? Visit Singapore, Japan, Korea, China or parts of Europe today and you’ll discover that the infrastructure in our country is not keeping pace with our peers’.

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Swift-Boated by bin Laden

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

Consider what happened on Aug. 14. Four jihadist suicide-bombers blew themselves up in two Iraqi villages, killing more than 500 Kurdish civilians — men, women and babies — who belonged to a tiny pre-Islamic sect known as the Yazidis. And what was the Bush team’s response to this outrage? Virtual silence.

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The Age Blogs: Management Line

Posted by SoxFirst

Nearly 40 years after economist Milton Friedman wrote that the "social responsibility of business is to increase its profits", business chiefs are saying they want to play a leadership role in addressing sociopolitical issues such as education, healthcare and foreign policy.

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Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle: For Some People, Intimacy Is Toxic

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

Friedman is the "great cognitive therapist" and while I agree people can change their sense of the world to be happier, the idea that there is nothing "wrong" with this patient seems ridiculous. Here's a patient who attempts suicide because he lacks the ability to resist the influence of his parents and girlfriend for deeper intimacy.

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Milton Friedman and corporate social responsibility

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The death last week of economist Milton Friedman has prompted plenty of comments about his attacks on corporate social responsibility. But look closer, the differences might be cosmetic!

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Bush's Waterlogged Halo

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

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