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Posts on ‘July 6th, 2005’

There’s no good reason for it; it’s just our policy

An interesting story today points up some dissent in Republican ranks over the United States’ mindless policy toward Cuba. Major U.S. agricultural interests want easing of trade restrictions that hurt them and ordinary Cuban citizens, not Cuba’s government. It’s reasonable to conclude that if the embargo against Cuba hasn’t toppled Fidel Castro’s regime in 46 [...]

Imagine if negative approach spread beyond politics

We got to thinking recently what America would be like if businesses and individuals were to freely use the same trash-and-bash tactics so often used in politics these days. Imagine what, say, General Motors might do with some recent news about a problem with Ford vehicles. Specifically, as many as 16 million Ford products may [...]