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Alienating Independents

…also implicitly applying those same labels to the one-third of Americans who have gone through the same disillusionment with Bush’s Iraq policies. Meanwhile, about 55%-60% of Americans now think that…

“Freedom to Farm”: GOP Hypocrisy – then and now

…hypocrisy of Gingrich and many other Republican congressmen” noting: Conservative and free-market forces brought little intellectual artillery to the farm-bill battle. Instead, many conservatives were content to rhapsodize over the…

Bush Picks Up Key Endorsement

…administration’s “axis of evil” label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists, and threats of sanctions for the country’s nuclear ambitions. Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan…

And Now, Random Convention Thoughts

…that the actual song is “Let’s Get Retarded”, and “Let’s Get it Started” is the radio version, have the Democrats at long last cast off the political correctness label? AB…

markets. They interfere with markets when it suits their purposes. Bush supported bailouts for airlines, unprecedented subsidies for agriculture and tariff protections for steel. Indeed, heh, ok then, and so…

…to avoid the label of a liberal bias? The NYT? Somehow I don’t buy that one… Now the standard response is to talk about Jeff Gerth and the NYT’s role…

…consumer confidence, and a rising stock market. 2.2% growth is basically ok, closer to recession than to boom, but basically neither. It would take growth rates somewhat above 3% to…

…code over the past decade or so, made to encourage giving, allow one to deduct the full current market value of stock given, while the income from that stock is…