A lot of social indicators are showing considerable improvement in the US. On not being taken in by current myths of decline and disaster. About Dubya’s compassionate conservatism : This leaves critics of the Bush administration with a "besides" problem. Bush is a heartless and callous conservative, "besides" the 1.4 million men, women and children who are alive because of treatment received through his AIDS initiative . . . "besides" the unquestioned gains of African American and Hispanic... read more