…to blur that distinction: To make it a crime - not to take money for your own use - but to get a project for your constituency. Think of it this way: The Harper government's anti-recession fiscal stimulus contained a total of some 32,000 individual spending items. The items included a new…
…ash heap of history, it was the Ford/Carter era -- gay rights, abortion ( Roe vs. Wade ) and women in the workplace, quota-based affirmative action and busing, violent slasher movies and "jiggly" nighttime soaps, and the 1978-80 "tax revolt" -- that really established the grammar of…
…to charity (George Steinbrenner) or the ne’er-do-well who finds God and turns his life around (George Foreman). I’m looking for the guy who was decent all along and we just didn’t know it. Call it the Jack Nicholson Syndrome, after his character in Terms of Endearment . When the louse…
From my Twitter feed : Wasserman: 82% of cong districts that flipped from D to R in 2010 had a Cracker Barrel; just 20% had a Whole Foods. http://wapo.st/uHuYRB
…he is. Is there a better alternative to talk-a-thons that attempt to produce an intricate treaty addressing a very complex, long-range problem that 193 nations can agree on? Such agreements can only come about through a great deal of advance work and legwork to build domestic backing. At…
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…H.W. Bush, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. What presidents must inescapably do is respond to emergencies: eg, the financial crisis of 2008, the 9/11 terror attacks, the financial crises of 1997-98, the invasion of Kuwait, etc. And there, what usually ends up mattering most is not the president's…
…find many in the suburbs. They’re worldly, well-spoken, and always have a lot of nice stuff, but none them seem to have a job. They seldom join the military. Their church attendance is erratic at best and they are extremely uncomfortable with expressions of faith. They tend to carry a…
…-- and permanent powers to deal with it -- inside the eurozone and any other non-euro countries that would be bafflingly inclined to join it. At first blush, it appears that the eurozone is actually getting serious about putting teeth in the Stability and Growth Pact, which seems a…
…of one of the most popular children's action-adventure shows? I of course refer to the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. I had heard stories about Gingrich's fascination with the 'teenagers with attitude' but photographic evidence seemed to be lacking. Now, thanks to the efforts of em>…
