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Low & middle income groups bear burden of the tax cuts William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag, and Isaac Shapiro have provided an analysis of who gains from the recent…

…little or nothing to do with this; it was NY Fed chairman William McDonough who orchestrated this narrow escape for the US economy. 1996-2000: The boom of the 1990s. Greenspan…

…out there. Cambone in turn dispatched his deputy, Lt. Gen. William (Jerry) Boykin—later to gain notoriety for his harsh comments about Islam—down to Gitmo to talk with Miller and organize…

…seeking to acquire chemical weapons and other dangerous weapons.” … U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said the goal of the strikes was to disrupt and attempt to destroy the suspected…

…of the Club for Growth, a politically powerful conservative group, called Bush’s State of the Union pledge to tackle the deficit “really unpersuasive.” “Conservatives were left grumbling,” Moore said. William

…the short run is supposed to be easy, as long as you don’t worry about how much debt you run up in the process. As William Gale of the Brookings…

…of course, authored the moralistic 1997 book Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline. On the back cover, Bork’s book has this endorsement from noted hypocrite Diamond William “Big…

…Blackstone’s Ratio, after its author, 19th century English legal scholar William Blackstone. In this calculus, false positives (convicting the innocent) are no less than ten times worse than false negatives…

…Thursday and Friday to win confirmation for Alabama Attorney General William Pryor and California judge Carolyn Kuhl. But both nominees are expected to be filibustered, as is Mississippi judge Charles…

What Cave Does Will Rasberry Live in? See yesterday’s IncomparableTM Daily Howler for a good laugh as Washington Post Columnist William Rasberry calls outspoken lefty Arianna Huffington “an outspoken conservative”….