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What about the OCC ruling?

…operating subsidiaries that sell and underwrite insurance. Gary Hughes, vice president and chief counsel with the Washington-based American Council of Life Insurance, said his preliminary analysis suggests two possible levels…

Fiscal Responsibility Summit: Guest List

…American Medical Association Becky Patton, American Nurses Association Karen Narasaki, Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) Dr. Ho Tran, Asian Pacific Islanders American Health Forum (APIAHF) Gary Flowers, Black Leadership Forum…

Richard Perle: "Neo-conservatives don’t exist"

…in the next. Elliott Abrams Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeb Bush Dick Cheney Eliot A. Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes Aaron Friedberg Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Fred…

Once is History, Twice is Parody and Ignorance

Gary Farber (so far only via Facebook) (UPDATE: Now here) finds a reprint from the 8 March 1933 issue of The Nation: At the risk of gilding the tinsel, let…

What was the Nexus?

…Cheney and then in alphabetical order: Elliott Abrams Richard L. Armitage Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeffrey Bergner John Bolton Eliot Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes Aaron Friedberg…

Grass is Green, Sky is Blue, The WSJ Lies to You

…new highs. [emphases mine] The other nominees are little better, including the Gary Stern, current head of the Minneapolis Fed of “Credit Crisis? What crisis?” fame. (At least Stern admits…

Saying It All

…from free-market conservatives to Senator Gary Hart, then a rising Democrat — were making similar arguments three decades ago. Instead, the bailout and import quotas fooled the automakers into thinking…

Is "Five Yeshiva Butchers" Good for the Jews?

…highest percentage of the Jewish vote of any recent Republican, with a link that indicated it could put Florida solidly in the Republican column, I took him seriously.* Via Gary

Global warming policy on taxes report

…Institute Martin Weitzman, Harvard University Peter Wilcoxen, Syracuse University Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University Anyone you know? The report is quite long, and I have not scanned it. Perhaps another person?…