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New York Times: "Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said that if she became president, the federal government would take a more active role in the economy to address what she called the excesses of the market and of the Bush administration."...

Tax breaks for the wealthy few?

Cory Heidelberger is agreeing with legislation sponsored by Joel Dykstra: There's still no way I'm voting for an Oral Roberts University graduate for Senate, and I remain suspicious of anyone who has made a living working for Big Oil, but...

The Negative Side of Affirmative Action

My Keloland colleague, Todd Epp has a piece on his primary web site calling for more minority lawyers. It is a serious argument, and I sympathize with the premise: that more minority lawyers (doctors, computer technicians, etc.,) would be in...

VDH & McCain

Victor Davis Hanson: "After reading most of the McCain animus on conservative blogs, I?m a little worried that some of it goes over the top. . . . McCain?s past support for the flawed immigration bill, McCain-Feingold, and opposition to...

Obama's Minister Of Hate

As I wrote here, Barack Obama's Chicago church has some beliefs that are not, how shall we put it, mainstream. It is not clear precisely what the "Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness" means, but in the context of the...

Heil MicroSSoft!

Microsoft seeks patent for office ’spy’ software This is just too creepy. We now know it for sure - Bill Gates IS Satanic!

The Florida Contest

Next Tuesday, we'll be heading into the Republicans' first closed primary in Florida, where we'll see if McCain can hold his advantage over Republican-only voters, whether Romney can win in a state not predisposed to support him, and whether Giulani's...

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

What's New with the Blogs

Senate passes SB26

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Hamas Calls for 'The Pursuit of Popular Anger'

Who was that masked gunman?

S-CHIP: Here we go again

South Dakota Blogs

Things are going well.....

Liberal Fascism: A (Really Long) Review

Cyberattacks Hitting Powergrids

Anti-Americanism

The Republic & Nevada

Money In Reserve

The Ides of Michigan

California: Big Brother Alive and Well!

Romney Takes Michigan Gold

Why should we be surprised?

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Michigan: The Election Without Meaning

Daschle Says Pres. Clinton Acting "Unpresidential"

Waiting for Reagan

Clinton and centralized control

SB26, SB154, and liberal fascism

Sen. Johnson In Aberdeen

American Blogs