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...challenges facing our leaders in Washington, none is more difficult or urgent than the long-term, structural budget deficits resulting from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. These programs are useful and well-intentioned: They form the bedrock of the American social safety net. Important as they are, however, they have also become exorbitantly expensive...

Author: By Colin J. Motley and Caleb L. Weatherl | Title: Entitled | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...Rubio, the U.S. Sugar "bailout" is another example of how Crist has forgotten the bedrock Republican ideal that "this country was built on the principles of limited government," he told TIME recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida, Can Crist Turn the Tide Against Rubio? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...even rarer than a horizontal tango on a twin-extra long. Take it from someone who’s recently changed her House affiliation for the third time (Mather to Currier to Dudley) while spending her senior year living in the Back Bay. Upperclass houses may be the supposed bedrock of Harvard social life, but that doesn’t mean you’re obligated to love or stay in the concrete monstrosity that contains the shoebox you call “dorm...

Author: By Lena Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renouncing the River Gods | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...Hussein Obama" - with an ominous emphasis on the President's middle name. Perhaps the most talked-about book of the convention was The 5,000 Year Leap, by the late right-wing writer W. Cleon Skousen, which argues that the Founding Fathers set up the U.S. on firm Christian bedrock and designed the Constitution to maximize individual liberty and free enterprise. Speaker after speaker commended the volume, a favorite of Glenn Beck's, and though it is far from Skousen's most extreme statement, with Skousen, even the mild stuff is controversial. A proponent of the idea that Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Tea Party Movement Matters | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Martin Eisenstadt, a former McCain campaign adviser, television talking head, and senior fellow at the neoconservative Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy, is the bedrock upon which our illustrious nation rests—if he does say so himself. “Pundits have been essential to American democracy since the birth of our great country,” he says. “If George Washington was the first American president, then it could be said that Ben Franklin was the first American pundit. And guess whose face is on a higher denomination bill? I rest my case...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Comedy of Political Errors | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

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