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President of breakaway Abkhazia said in an interview with the Regnum news agency on March 4 that authorities of unrecognized republic will continue privatization process in Abkhazia, despite Tbilisi warnings that privatized assets will be confiscated after restoration of Georgia’s territorial integrity. “We will certainly continue privatization process and the new leadership [of Abkhazia] is undertaking particular measure in order to guarantee security of private property,” Bagapsh said without specifying the measures undertaken by authorities in Abkhazia. “Tbilisi’s concern regarding this issue is not surprising. We have no hopes that Tbilisi will be happy by Abkhazia’s rise from the ruins...

There are two ways to tell when a political party thinks it is losing an election. The obvious one is where the candidates are choosing to campaign. If they’re stumping in their own backyards and shoring up their bases, while the other side is on the attack, that’s a clear sign. But so is the level of lying. When all is almost lost, the unethical campaign will haul out the lies – the bigger the better. Others have commented on the political geography of where Bush and Kerry are respectively campaigning in the closing days of this campaign. This comments...

Are We All Socialists Now?Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson would be proud of what the Republicans who run the federal government are doing now: They are planning to add a massive new element to the welfare state. Cheered on by President Bush, the Republican Senate is poised to approve a bill adding a prescription drug benefit to the already bankrupt Medicare program. So far, there is no organized resistance to the plan in the Republican House. This new entitlement is politically shortsighted, pandering to forces that could eventually smother the Republican Party. But worse, it is fiscally and morally indefensible....