Posted on 03/29/2004 2:01:08 AM PST by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Just about anything put out by the Cato Institute. Although I dissagree with their isolationist foreign policy I find their views are strictly rational rather than apparently rational.
I was not aware that Lexington was an opinion column and therefore excluded from a charge of bias.
Would you view the Chalemagne column with equanimity if it constantly tilted to the views of the Christian Democrats? Most of the writers for the Economist are the products of Oxbridge and like the BBC commentators have a gift for the prosaic stilleto between the ribs. In some respects they are like the french elite, distainful of the lumpen proletariat.
In the 1980's they were fierce opponents of the socialist sclerosis which had handicapped the UK since WW II, during both socialist and nominally conservative governments. They have lost that edge in recent years under different editors.
For what it's worth I don't agree with a great deal of what is writtern on this site - believing in a Jefforsonian republic ( That government governs best ...) - but FR does not portray itself as balanced, which the Economist does. Having said that, it's standards are still way above just about anything currently published in the USA with the possible exception of highly specialised journals such as Foreign Affairs or Foreign Policy
The proposed constitution assumes that in future politicians will be honest, diligent and put the public interest first - all the evidence of the last two thousand years notwithstanding. They also appear content to leave the final interpretation up to the European Court a mistake our founding fathers made with the Supreme Court ( See my tag line below)
FLIP-FLOP MAN ("Nowhere Man")
=============================
He's a real flip-flop man
Living in his flip-flop land
Doesn't have a single plan
For nobody
Always has a point of view
Frequently he'll have two
Doesn't he sound just like you'd
Want him to be?
Flip-flop man (la la la), John Kerry
Take a stand (la la la), why should he?
Flip-flop man, thinks that we should be
At the UN's command.
He's a fake as he can be
Shows you want you want to see
Always hides from you and me
What he really is.
Always has a point of view
Frequently he'll have two
Doesn't he sound just like you'd
Want him to be?
Flip-flp man (la la la), don't you fret
Just keep sayin' (la la la) "Vietnam vet"
Flip-flip man, the media will let
You slide on it.
He's a real flip-flop man
Living in his flip-flop land
Doesn't have a single plan
For nobody
YESTERDAY
=========
Yesterday
I told you what I had to say
To convice you that I'd vote that way
That was my stance
Yesterday
Suddenly
The realization came to me
On the other side I had to be
And that is now the truth
To me
So... how will I vote?
I don't know, I just won't say
If it all goes wrong
I'll flip-flop back
To yesterday
Yesterday
It's such an easy game to play
Watch me change my tune again today
Oh don't believe
A word I say
Don't believe
A word I say
What you talking about? Bush is running ads every 30 minutes in WA state pounding Kerry !
Jay leno just said that he likes to hear both sides of every issue - that's why he listens to John Kerry !
Kerry is getting beat down pebble by pebble.
The Sh!t hasn't hit the fan yet against Kerry but it will in May and June !
Although you may be correct, unfortunately, I do not think it fair to compare the publications of a foundation to that of a weekly. The Economist has to earn a profit through advertising. So possibly I should rephrase my question to ask if you can name a more objective advertisement supported publication?
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