Jerry Agar

Jerry Agar Reports from Haiti

01/31/2010
I am in Pignon, a rural town in the center of the country. It is on Highway 3, which would seem to suggest an easy drive. Have you ever taken a drive along a place cut out of the land by a raging river? That is Highway 3—and I am not exaggerating.

Too Dumb to Thrive

01/31/2010
Do you think government spending is out of control and harmful? Then Time magazine's Joe Klein thinks you are a dodo.

It’s the Government’s Fault

01/31/2010
Expanding on my earlier assertion that people cannot be starving in mass numbers unless the government has failed and/or is corrupt.
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