Candidates like Gravel don’t mention epidermal issues so much as the media “manufacturing consent” by handpicking who gets the proper skin care — i. But ideas are a lot like candidates in the primary — they are narrowed to a fine point before most voters can even blink. The Democrat — who in 1971 exposed military secrets during the Vietnam War by inserting 4,100 pages of the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record — is now pushing for what is considered a classic Republican idea. But I want to know what’s so liberal about saying that the invasion of Iraq was about oil, or that we’re the only industrialized country without a national health care system, or that our civil liberties are being shredded, or that we should balance the budget — scandal! Read More