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Bloquean señal de Fox News vía satélite en MéxicoFox News Signal via Satellite is Blocked in Mexico En la pantalla aparece el siguiente mensaje: "De acuerdo a la ley electoral mexicana, nos vemos obligados a interrumpir temporalmente la transmisión de este canal" On the screen appears the following message: "In accord with the Mexican electoral law we are obliged to interrupt temporarily the transmission of this channel." AP El Universal Ciudad de México Domingo 25 de junio de 2006 20:31 El canal de televisión Fox News, que trasmite noticias en inglés, fue bloqueado este domingo a los suscriptores de la...

February 1, 2000 Read Their Lips: No New Texans CONCORD, NH — John McCain thrashed George W. Bush in New Hampshire. For Bush supporters, there’s no way to sugarcoat it. The Texas governor failed miserably in his first real test. The aura of inevitability is gone. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a race. The voters of New Hampshire have spoken. But why did they go with McCain over Bush? The bottom line is that Bush never ran an effective campaign in the Granite State and he didn't have a winning message. He remained aloof from the voters, eschewing informal coffees ...

January 14, 2000 Jude Wanniski's Quick Supply-Side History of the 20th Century Fall Semester: Supply-Side University Economics Lesson #14 To: SSU Students From: Jude Wanniski Re: The Reform Party & Multi-Party Systems As my discourse on Mexican federalism last week suggested, I believe a political economy only can be as good as the structure of its government and political institutions. The United States is the most successful nation to have evolved in human history. Yet Mexico, its neighbor, while having a marvelous climate, splendid natural resources, endless stretches of arable land, a gorgeous coastline that extends forever AND a constitutional ...

Twisted v. Weird Christopher Hitchens It was in San Diego, California in the late summer of 1996 that the working hacks finally tumbled to what they had done. A Republican National Convention had been arranged, as a sort of sound-stage or a mixed-media event, entirely for the convenience of the press and TV. The delegates were mere extras on the set, the coronation of the two nominees was a sure thing, the feral extremists and fundamentalists had been tidied out of sight, the corporate-sponsorship logos were beautifully placed, the camera angles and background briefings were the chief preoccupation of the ...

For Goodness Sake, Read the Book! October 19, 1999 Memo To: Jack Kemp From: Jude Wanniski Re: You're Being Unfair to Pat I was disappointed to see in The Washington Post that you had invoked the name of one of your heroes, Winston Churchill, to join the crowd criticizing Pat Buchanan’s book, A Republic, Not an Empire, without having read it. When you decided to drop out of elective politics and join the ranks of "elder statesman," you said you were now free to be a truthteller, meaning you could speak your mind without offending important segments of your political ...

Under Fire by Gregg Easterbrook It's unsettling, to say the least, to learn via recently unearthed government tape recordings that the FBI has spent six years falsely denying that it used pyrotechnic military-style tear gas canisters on the final day of the Waco siege. But there was other military hardware at Waco, too. And while that hardware--specifically, combat helicopters deployed on the first day of the siege--has not drawn public attention, it may be much more significant than the military tear gas when it comes to explaining what really went wrong and why Waco belongs among the shameful events ...