After a night that exploded in looting gunfire and teargas and a day of ldquo absolute chaos rdquo in the capital city events on the ground in Honduras are escalating dangerously out of control Patrick Ahern a U S journalist based in Tegucigalpa told America today Thousands of demonstrators

While a lot of the national focus has turned to the health care squabble a minor distraction to these eyes the ongoing scandal of government-sponsored interference with free market enterprise continues to disturb We speak of course of municipal fire departments and a pernicious reliance on govern

A report from today s New York Times offers a reminder and I think one may have been necessary that there remain far worse things in the world to worry about than our own many problems in the United States Distracted as we are by deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan how the nation is going to