Workin' Private Equity: Goin' down, down, down.
Slate
31 August 2007
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So now they want to take away our special tax break and tax our income like everybody else's.
Let's get real. Last year I made $300 million and paid 15 percent of that in taxes, leaving me with $255
million. If I had to pay 35 percent like these other suckers, I would only have $195 million when the smoke
cleared. If Uncle Sam thinks that I am going to keep spending my weekends emptying bed pans at the nursing home
for just $195 million a year, it had better think again.
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The Punch Bowl Caucus
Newsweek
28 August 2007
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A look at the motley group of gazillionaires, conservatives, and industrialists who are begging the Fed to cut interest rates.
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Dobbs: Religion moving too close to today's politics
CNN.com
11 May 2007
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The separation of church and state in this country is narrowing. And it is the church,
not the state that is encroaching. Our Constitution protects religion from the intrusion or
coercion of the state. But we have precious little protection against the political adventurism
of all manner of churches and religious organizations.
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Kirk Cameron Proves That God Exists
Slate
11 May 2007
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If Nightline wanted to host an enlightening discussion about religion, it would have invited some
intelligent believers to mount a defense of faith and to talk about why faith and proof of it are
mutually exclusive. Instead, the show served up Cameron goofing on Charles Darwin, apparently the
preferred target of dimwitted theists. At one point, Cameron, mocking the theory of evolution,
held up a photo-illustration of a duck with the head of crocodile. Seeing this, Brian, stunned, could
not help but mutter, "Oh. My. God."
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Radical Islam in your Backyard
Advocate
11 May 2006
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Berlinski understands that taking such a hard line could make her sound racist and intolerant,
but the rhetoric coming from radical Islamists—some of whom espouse the full implementation of
Islamic sharia law, reduced rights for women, and death for gays and lesbians—requires a strong
stand. “It sounds so strange coming out of my mouth, but it’s the only reasonable thing you can
conclude when confronted with someone who wants you dead,” she says.
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Will We Hit $100?
Newsweek
9 May 2006
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Worse, there is an increasingly strong case, perhaps even an emerging consensus, that we are
heading for a new price reality—one that until now has been the province of oil-conspiracy
crackpots and environmental end-of-timers. This is the world of $100 oil.
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How Routine Turned to Tragedy at Mammoth
LA Times
9 April 2006
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Rescuers who tried to save two ski patrollers who fell into a crevasse formed by a
volcanic vent at Mammoth Mountain said Saturday that they found themselves confronted with a
danger they did not expect.
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Mammoth Area's Beauty Masks Its Natural Dangers
LA Times
8 April 2006
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The deaths of three ski patrol members at Mammoth Mountain on Thursday highlight the many hazards
facing those who live, work and play atop one of the nation's largest active volcanic systems.
Earthquake swarms, toxic gases that are deadly when concentrated, the unlikely event of a
cataclysmic eruption — such risks are permanent features of life in the exquisitely scenic area.
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Mammoth Ski Patrol Deaths Hit Swiftly
LA Times
8 April 2006
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The ski patrol had been at work since first light, inspecting Mammoth Mountain's reopened runs after
a week of heavy snow and blustery winds. By midmorning Thursday, seven of them had set to work digging
out a nearly buried fence erected to keep skiers away from one of the mountain's dangerous volcanic vents.
Suddenly, the snow beneath them gave way.
Two miles high in the Eastern Sierra, a volcanic hotspot swallowed the record 21-foot snowpack,
claimed two of California's most experienced ski experts who fell into its maw, and then took the
life of a colleague who tried to save them.
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Breaking No Ground: Why 'Crash' won, why 'Brokeback' lost and how the academy chose to play it safe.
LA Times
6 March 2006
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In the privacy of the voting booth, as many political candidates who've led in polls
only to lose elections have found out, people are free to act out the unspoken fears
and unconscious prejudices that they would never breathe to another soul, or, likely,
acknowledge to themselves. And at least this year, that acting out doomed "Brokeback
Mountain."
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Your Taboo, Not Mine: The furor over cartoons of Muhammad reveals the zealot's double standard
Time
6 February 2006
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Yes, there's no reason to offend people of any faith arbitrarily. We owe all faiths
respect. But the Danish cartoons were not arbitrarily offensive. They were designed
to reveal Islamic intolerance--and they have now done so, in abundance. The West's
principles are clear enough. Tolerance? Yes. Faith? Absolutely. Freedom of speech?
Nonnegotiable.
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Review: Love makes Brokeback Oscar favorite
MSNBC
30 January 2006
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But when I finally saw “Brokeback” I found it nearly perfect. It’s more than a
love story; it’s really about loneliness, which is a more universal emotion anyway.
Some of us haven’t been in love; some of us don’t believe in love. Everyone’s been lonely.
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Ready for $262 per barrel oil?
CNN/Fortune
27 January 2006
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Be afraid. Be very afraid. That's the message from two of the world's most successful
investors on the topic of high oil prices. One of them, Hermitage Capital's Bill
Browder, has outlined six scenarios that could take oil up to a downright terrifying
$262 a barrel.
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Hypocritic Oath: Scalia on abortion vs. Scalia on assisted suicide
Slate
19 January 2006
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on assisted suicide. On
Wednesday, it handed down a ruling on abortion. As Justice Antonin Scalia has often
observed, judges are supposed to stick to principles, not change them to suit personal
preferences from one issue to the next. But evidently, that advice doesn't apply to Scalia.
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Poll: Democrats favored to control Congress
MSNBC
6 January 2006
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In an ominous election-year sign for Republicans, Americans are leaning sharply toward giving
Democrats control of Congress, an AP-Ipsos poll finds. Democrats are favored 49 percent to 36 percent.
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Bitter Brew: I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.
Slate
6 January 2006
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You know that charming little cafe on New York's Lower East Side that just closed after a mere
six months in business—where coffee was served on silver trays with a glass of water and a little
chocolate cookie? The one that, as you calmly and correctly observed, was doomed from its inception
because it was too precious and too offbeat? The one you still kind of fell for, the way one falls
for a tubercular maiden? Yeah, that one was mine.
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Men in Love: Is Brokeback Mountain a gay film?
Slate
9 December 2005
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"It goes without saying that Brokeback Mountain is an entirely different kind of film. Perhaps it
takes a woman to create a tale in which two men experience sex and love as a single thunderbolt,
welding them together for life; certainly Proulx's story is a far cry from such canonical gay
novels as Edmund White's The Farewell Symphony or Allan Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library,
which poeticize urban promiscuity and sexual adventuring. Proulx, by contrast, exalts coupledom by
linking it to nature. Her narration, with its echoes of Western genre fiction, is knobby and elliptical,
driven by an engine as unpredictable as the one that runs Jack Twist's troublesome truck, with the result
that it often backs into scenes that a more conventional writer would place front and center."
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The state of the universe: Theory of Anything?
Slate
23 November 2005
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"Yet in his latest book, Hiding in the Mirror, Krauss turns on his own—by taking on string theory,
the leading edge of theoretical physics. Krauss is probably right that string theory is a threat to
science, but his book proves he's too late to stop it."
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Rock and Roe:Alito's unequivocal abortion decisions
Slate
1 November 2005
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"Now, let's be very clear: Judge Alito might be ambivalent about many things, but
he is not ambivalent about abortion. Seeking to cloud this issue by pointing out
that Alito authored opinions on both sides of the issue is nonsense. Nothing could be
further from the truth."
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Trick and Treat: Sammy Alito is the whole bag of goodies
Slate
1 November 2005
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"Best of all for Bush's base, Alito is the kind of "restrained" jurist who
isn't above striking down acts of Congress whenever they offend him. Bush
noted this morning: "He has a deep understanding of the proper role of judges in
our society. He understands that judges are to interpret the laws, not to impose
their preferences or priorities on the people."...Except, of course, that Alito doesn't
think Congress has the power to regulate machine-gun possession, or to broadly
enforce the Family and Medical Leave Act, or to enact race or gender discrimination
laws that might be effective in remedying race and gender discrimination, or to
tackle monopolists. Alito thus neatly joins the ranks of right-wing activists
in the battle to limit the power of Congress and diminish the efficacy of the judiciary."
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Some Uncomfortable Findings for Wal-Mart
Business Week
26 October 2005
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"Is Wal-Mart good or bad for the U.S. economy? A group of economists is attempting to
answer that question. And the surprise is that the economists' studies, which aren't all
complimentary to Wal-Mart (WMT), are to be presented at a Nov. 4 conference sponsored by
the giant retailer itself....Perhaps the most surprising issue they raise is whether Wal-Mart
actually offers lower prices than its competitors. While this may seem a nonissue for a company
that has become the world's largest retailer by bragging about its everyday low prices,
it's by no means a settled question among economists."
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Intelligent design ducks the rigors of science
Slate
30 September 2005
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"So here's what ID proponents are offering to teach your kids: They won't say how
ID works. They won't say how it can be tested, apart from testing Darwinism and
inferring that the alternative is ID. They won't concede it has to be falsifiable."
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Mind the Gaps: Intelligent design as an answer to all life's great conundrums
Slate
30 September 2005
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"My modest proposal would be that, instead of using intelligent design merely to
fill in the gaps and inconsistencies of our most intractable scientific puzzles,
we roll back what we've already learned about science and plug God into the equation
at the outset. Kind of cut out those annoying scientific middlemen."
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Don't Refloat: The case against rebuilding the sunken city of New Orleans
Slate
9 September 2005
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"New Orleans puts the "D" into dysfunctional. Only a sadist would insist on
resurrecting this concentration of poverty, crime, and deplorable schools. Yet
that's what New Orleans' cheerleaders—both natives and beignet-eating tourists—are
advocating. They predict that once they drain the water and scrub the city clean,
they'll restore New Orleans to its former "glory.""
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Going below the surface
Los Angeles Times
26 July 2005
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"What he's uncovered already is surprising, both for the seasoned wilderness traveler as
well as the day hiker who stares longingly at a gushing river and wonders whether it's
safe to take a slug. At many trails and backcountry camps throughout California, signs
warn visitors off casual sipping. But are the dangers of Giardia lamblia, E. coli,
Cryptosporidium and other bugs that wreak intestinal havoc grossly exaggerated? Derlet
thinks so, and his research reveals that the water is much cleaner than most people believe."
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The Filtered Future: China's bid to divide the Internet
Slate
12 July 2005
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"Countries like China are pushing hard to divide that global network into a system
of Balkanized national networks. Censorship of the sort Microsoft acceded to is grabbing
headlines, but the more important restrictive measures are taking place quietly—and
quietly succeeding."
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And This Is Why They Did It
The Times (UK)
8 July 2005
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"Van Gogh, who had angered Islamists with his documentary about the mistreatment of women
in Islam, was reacting like BBC reporters did yesterday, assuming that the man who was
killing him may have some reasonable demands which could be discussed in a calm,
democratic atmosphere. But sorry, old chaps, you are dealing with an enemy that does not
want anything specific, and cannot be talked back into reason through anger management or
round-table discussions. Or, rather, this enemy does want something specific: to take full
control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare
resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you. "
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"Now I get to be like everybody else"
ESPN.com
27 May 2005
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"But Andrew Goldstein, according to those who document these things, is the most accomplished
male, team-sport athlete in North America to be openly gay during his playing career.
He revealed his sexuality to his team after the 2003 season, and an online essay that appeared
on Outsport.com elevated his story to national prominence."
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The Nuclear Transfer Option: The off-and-on principle of up-or-down votes.
Slate
24 May 2005
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"Four years ago, Bush restricted federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research (or ESCR)
to cell lines derived before Aug. 9, 2001. Last year, 58 senators and nearly half the House
signed letters asking him to relax that restriction. For at least three years, most
senators have supported legislation that would approve human therapeutic cloning.
Last year, more than 200 members of the House co-sponsored legislation to expand ESCR funding.
None of these bills ever got an up-or-down vote. Why? Because the same Republicans who now
preach about up-or-down votes bottled them up or threatened to filibuster them."
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Europe unites in hatred of French
news.telegraph (UK)
17 May 2005
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"The knockout punch to French pride came in the way the poll was conducted. People were not asked
what they hated in the French, just what they thought of them. "Interviewees were simply asked an
open question - what five adjectives sum up the French," said Olivier Clodong,
one of the study's two authors... "The answers were overwhelmingly negative.""
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History and Mystery: Why does the New York Times insist on calling jihadists
"insurgents"?
Slate
17 May 2005
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"I think I begin to sense the "frustration" of the "insurgents." They keep telling us what
they are like and what they want. But do we ever listen? Nah. For them, it must be like talking
to the wall. Bennet even complains that it's difficult for reporters to get close to the
"insurgents": He forgets that his own paper has published a conversation with one of them,
in which the man praises the invasion of Kuwait, supports the cleansing of the Kurds, and
says that "we cannot accept to live with infidels.""
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Let's Not Save Social Security
Slate
5 May 2005
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"The reason to postpone the solution is that if American politics goes better than expected
we may want to cut Social Security back in future decades even more radically than anyone is
now contemplating, in order to pay for more important (and more deeply equalizing) government
programs. Would you take a deal that gave us universal Medicare-style health insurance if the
price was cutting down Social Security into a mere program of earned insurance against poverty?
It seems like a no-brainer to me. But it's only possible if Social security is perceived as
in need of fixing--even better, if it's in crisis!"
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Income Mirrors Red State-Blue State Divide
TaxProf Blog
4 May 2005
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"This map of the most recent census data (for 2003) shows an interesting divide: Blue
States are those whose median income for a family of four exceeds the U.S. median of $65,093,
while Red States are those whose median income is less than the U.S. median."
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An Open Letter to the HRC
mammothboarder.com
12 March 2005
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"Last week the board announced the appointment of Joe Solmonese as the new
president of the HRC, the nation's most dedicated, focused and preeminent
lobbying group for gays and lesbians. Mr. Solmonese will have a difficult task,
both in terms of inheriting the reins of one of the most successful and arguably
admirable civil rights organizations in the United States, and doing so after one
of the most disastrous years that organization has ever seen."
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"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Hurts Military, Costs $200 Million
MSNBC
24 February 2005
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"Hundreds of highly skilled troops, including many translators, have left the
armed forces because of the Pentagon’s rules on gays, at a cost of
nearly $200 million, the first congressional study on the impact of
the 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' policy says."
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Condemn-Nation
Slate
23 February 2005
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"Every home, church, and corner store would produce more tax revenue if it was turned into a
shopping mall," he says. There can be no limit to what the state can condemn if the only
requirement is that the proposed project improve the tax base."
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The New 65
Slate
23 February 2005
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"At age 70, men and women in 2002 could still expect more remaining life (13.2 years for men, 15.8 for women)
than their 65-year-old counterparts could in 1935. Even a 75-year-old man in 2002 could expect 10.3 more
years, nearly as many as a 65-year-old man could expect in 1935. If you were designing a system today
for men with 11 or 12 remaining years and for women with 15 remaining years, you wouldn't set the retirement
age at 65. You'd set it between 70 and 75."
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The Future of HRC
Advocate
26 January 2005
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"Each state is in a different place, red or blue...In some states it’s about access to health care or
domestic-partner benefits, and in other states they’ve gone as far as they can go on the civil
union side. I think it’s quite clear that there are people across this country who don’t have
anything in any of their states. We have to do a better job of identifying tangible opportunities
to change people’s lives."
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Once Shunned, Snowboarders Now Coveted by Ski Industry
CNN
12 December 2004
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Some 6.3 million Americans went snowboarding in 2003, a dramatic increase from a decade earlier,
when only 2.1 million said they had taken part in the sport, according to an annual survey conducted
by the National Sporting Goods Association. In contrast, the same survey showed the number of skiers
is declining -- 6.8 million people in 2003 compared to 10.6 million people 10 years before.
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The Gay Marriage Myth: Terrorism, not values, drove Bush's re-election
Slate
5 November 2004
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It's true that states with bans on the ballot voted for Bush at higher rates than other states.
His vote share averaged 7 points higher in gay-marriage-banning states than in other states (57.9 vs.
50.9). But four years ago, when same-sex marriage was but a twinkle in the eye of the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court, Bush's vote share was 7.3 points higher in these same states than in other states. In other
words, by a statistically insignificant margin, putting gay marriage on the ballot actually reduced the degree
to which Bush's vote share in the affected states exceeded his vote share elsewhere.
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Gay Marriage and the Ground Game
Ashbrook Center
5 November 2004
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Indeed, I’m prepared to argue that the counter-mobilization against these amendments is at least as
large a part of the Kerry coalition as mobilizing on their behalf is part of Bush’s. Four of the twelve
states in which Kerry improved the most over Gore had gay marriage initiatives on the ballot, whereas
only two of Bush’s top twelve had them.
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Solutions For Debt Crisis go Far Beyond Tinkering
USA Today
5 October 2004
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What if you didn't qualify for Social Security and Medicare until you were 73 years old?
What if the affluent got limited government retirement benefits — and “affluent” was $50,000 a year?
What if the government said it wouldn't pay for your $100,000 life-saving operation?
Americans may soon have to start thinking the unthinkable to solve the severe financial problems that the
retirement of baby boomers will bring the Social Security and Medicare systems.
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The Looming National Benefit Crisis
USA Today
4 October 2004
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The "Greatest Generation" and its baby-boom children have promised themselves benefits unprecedented
in size and scope. Many leading economists say that even the world's most prosperous economy cannot fulfill
these promises without a crushing increase in taxes — and perhaps not even then.
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The Cult of Che
Slate
24 September 2004
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The present-day cult of Che—the T-shirts, the bars, the posters — has succeeded in obscuring this dreadful
reality...Che was an enemy of freedom, and yet he has been erected into a symbol of freedom. He helped
establish an unjust social system in Cuba and has been erected into a symbol of social justice. He
stood for the ancient rigidities of Latin-American thought, in a Marxist-Leninist version, and he
has been celebrated as a free-thinker and a rebel. And thus it is in Salles' Motorcycle Diaries.
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Half Full
Wall Street Journal
30 August 2004
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Below are some of the positive developments and good-news stories of the past fortnight
that for most part received very little media attention. It's a pity because the story of "Iraq,
the phoenix rising from the ashes" is in many ways a lot more interesting, not to say consequential,
than the usual steady media diet of "Iraq, the Wild East."
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Imitation Dream Team despised at Games
MSNBC
19 August 2004
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This is a collection of players who offend basketball purists by insisting on playing one-on-one,
schoolyard-style. More than that, they’ve become a focal point for some of the attitudes that
critics find most offensive about pro athletes.
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Firehouse Rot:John Kerry's cheapest shot
Slate
2 August 2004
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The worst thing about John Kerry's parochial line on the firehouses was the applause it got,
with cameras even focusing on firefighter union jackets adorned with Kerry-Edwards buttons. The
great thing about firefighters is usually their solidarity: They will send impressive delegations to
the funerals of their fellows not just in other cities but in other countries, too....So, do we understand the nominee
correctly? Is he telling us that Iraqi firefighters are parasites sucking on the American tit, and
that they don't deserve the supportive brotherhood that used to be the proudest signature of the
labor movement?
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In Private Hands
Tech Central Station
19 July 2004
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"Virtually any different-sex couple can walk in and get a marriage license," says Evan Wolfson,
Executive Director, Freedom to Marry..."Deadbeat dads, people on their eighth marriage, convicted
felons, people in prison, even people in prison for killing their wives can get marriage licenses.
But committed same-sex couples cannot. I can sum this up in one word: Britney."
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Yankee, Stay Home
Tech Central Station
13 July 2004
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Never mind that U.S. taxpayers will provide more money this year to fight AIDS
than the governments of the rest of the world combined. Never mind that U.S.
research and development has given the world the drugs that now prevent a diagnosis
of HIV infection from becoming a death sentence. Americans are the villains.
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In Praise of Heady Growth
BusinessWeek
14 May 2004
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Over the long run, economic progress in a highly developed country such as the
U.S. depends mainly on technological advances. It was a succession of innovations -- including
electricity, telephones, radio, automobiles, and antibiotics -- that revolutionized life in the
first half of the 20th century. By contrast, the drought of economically significant innovations
in the 1970s -- including the unanticipated failure of nuclear power as a cheap energy source -- helped
pull down growth.
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What Has Gone Right in Iraq
The Boston Globe
11 May 2004
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Nearly a year after the fall of Baghdad, Iraq is hugely improved.
Unemployment has been cut in half. Wages are climbing. The devastated southern marshlands
are being restored. More Iraqis own cars and telephones than before Saddam was ousted.
Some 2,500 schools have been rehabbed by the US-headed coalition. Spending on health care has
soared thirtyfold, and millions of Iraqi children have been vaccinated.
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The Deal Breaker
Andrew Sullivan/Advocate
30 Apr 2004
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I still support the president’s war on terror. But it’s time to say something very clearly:
Bush’s endorsement of antigay discrimination in the U.S. Constitution itself is a deal-breaker.
I can’t endorse him this fall. Like many other gay men and women who have supported him, despite
serious disagreements, I feel betrayed, abused, attacked.
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Second Thinking: What I got wrong about Iraq
Slate
19 Apr 2004
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In the wasted decade of sanctions-plus-Saddam, a whole paranoid and wretched
fundamentalist underclass was created and exploited by the increasingly Islamist
propaganda of the Baath Party. This also helps explain the many overlooked
convergences between the supposedly "secular" Baathists and the forces of jihad.
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Hell in a Suitcase
Tech Central Station
15 Apr 2004
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How small can a nuclear bomb be? What are the downscale physical limits
to making one? It is important to have some concept of these limits as we
consider the occasional alarms in the media regarding terrorists and "suitcase"
or (lately) "backpack" nuclear bombs. Last week were heard al-Qaeda claims that it
has a couple of suitcase bombs it bought from Russians years ago. Chechnyan rebels
have made similar claims in the past, as have Palestinian terrorists.
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The Commission, the Democrats and Terrorism
Tech Central Station
15 Apr 2004
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Until a few days ago, presidential candidate John Kerry was able to
take all the shots he wanted at President Bush's record in the war on terror,
while remaining out of critical range himself. But last week's 9/11 commission
hearings changed all that. The hearings presented a Democratic record on
terrorism that is marred by fundamental policy fumbles and ultimately fatal misjudgments.
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The Degneration of the Democratic Party
American Digest
14 Apr 2004
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And this all arises from deep within the monsters from the id that now control
and move the Democratic Party across out political landscape like a mob of extras
from The Dawn of the Dead. It's an indecent and disgusting spectacle and I suspect
there's more than a few million long-time Democrats who are revolted by it.
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These Guys Want To Kill Us Anyway
The Australian
16 Mar 2004
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If Islamic terrorism were as rational as Irish or Basque terrorism, it would be
easier. But Hussein Massawi, former leader of Hezbollah, summed it up very
pithily: "We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are
fighting to eliminate you." You can be pro-America (Spain, Australia) or
anti-America (France, Canada), but if you broke into the head cave in the Hindu
Kush and checked out the hit list you'd be on it either way.
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Where Is My Gay Apocalypse?
SF Chronicle
16 Mar 2004
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Where is my raging apocalypse? This is what I want to know. Where is the social
meltdown? The moral depravity? I was promised an apocalypse, dammit. What am I
supposed to do with all these tubs of margarine and confetti and kazoos?
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The Social Security Crisis—Solved!
Slate
12 Mar 2004
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This is the fantasy of every Washington politician: You wake up one morning, and the Social Security
crisis has vanished. Who knows where it went? Maybe a kind old wizard made it disappear. Who cares?
It's gone! The magic solution—a Social Security fix with no tax increases and no benefit cuts—is the
dream that will not die.
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How Presidential Hopefuls Would Deepen Deficits
National Taxpayers Union
12 Mar 2004
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Each of the Democrat contenders for the White House disparaged recent projections of huge budget
shortfalls for their own rhetorical purposes...Despite their different approaches, to a person,
the eight Democrat Presidential candidates call for spending increases that would substantially
swell the deficit.
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The Root of Money
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
12 Mar 2004
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Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters,
who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce.
Is this what you consider evil?
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Understanding Poverty in America
The Heritage Foundation
6 Jan 2004
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Last year, the Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty in the United States
declaring that there were nearly 35 million poor persons living in this country in 2002,
a small increase from the preceding year. To understand poverty in America, it is important
to look behind these numbers--to look at the actual living conditions of the individuals the
government deems to be poor.
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Our Accomplishments in Iraq
Marine Corp Command, Iraq
1 Jan 2004
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These are things worth writing about. Get the word out. Write to someone you think may be able
to influence our Congress or the press to tell the story. Above all, be proud that you are a
part of this historical precedent.
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