"What effect must it have on a nation if it learns no foreign languages? Probably much the same as that which a total withdrawal from society has upon an individual." --G.C. Lichtenberg
I'm going to leave the heavy lifting on this one to more able bloggers, except for this:
The International Republican Institute, which has an office in Caracas and is an arm of the US Republican Party, also has been questioned over its activities and of the anti-Chavez zeal of its leader. The institute's grant from the [US taxpayer-funded] National Endowment for Democracy grew from $50,000 in 2000, to promote youth participation in politics, to $339,998 last year for political party building.
What in the Sam Hill is the Congress of the United States of America doing giving money to "arm[s] of the US Republican Party?" What the hell kind of political parties are the fine, upstanding people at the International Republican Institute building with my money? posted by David at 8/21/2002 03:06:00 PM ::
