evil fences

So the Club for Growth was onto something when it ran TV spots in January 2004, on the eve of the Democratic caucus, In that attack ad, a farmer riffed, "Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading" -- and before the man could finish his sentence, his wife jumped in and finished the sentence for him -- "Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs."
http://www.techcentralstation.com/021105F.html

Homeless veterans buried with honor
http://www.dallasnews.com/sws...7427.html

Democracy was not our first, but rather out last choice in the Middle East. For decades we have promoted Cold War realpolitik and supported thugs whose merit was simply that they were not as bad as a murderous Saddam or Assad (true enough), while the Arab world has gone from kings and dictators to Soviet puppets, Pan-Arabists, Islamists, and theocrats. Democracy in some sense is the last chance.
http://www.victorhanson.com/...5.html

A research team from Johns Hopkins University has discovered that a broken heart could lead to serious medical problems, including heart attacks.
http://www.newsbug.net/.../h.php

South Koreans expressed indignation and confusion Friday over the announcement by North Korea the day before that it possessed nuclear weapons and was boycotting six-party talks on the nuclear issue "indefinitely."
http://www.iht.com/articles/...korea.html

Mexico said it objected to a clause that would allow a border fence to be completed in the Californian city of San Diego. "We're against building any wall between our two countries because they are walls that increase our differences," Mexican Interior Minister Santiago Creel said. "The walls don't stop the migration flow," he added...
...The gap in the fence in San Diego is used by thousands of illegal immigrants a year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/...1.stm