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...anything, social conservatives don't realize the full depth of blue-state America's condescension. They assume that liberals sit around all day thinking about how much smarter or more sophisticated or more enlightened they are than social conservatives. Truth be told, most of the time liberals don't bother to think about social conservatives at all. Except at election time, when they suddenly become aware of them as some frightening, incomprehensible menace to their otherwise comfortably progressive society...
Every November, Wisconsin ceases to be a red state or a blue state and instead becomes a blaze orange one. That is the color donned by hunters, 650,000 of whom bought licenses to participate in the state's rifle-deer-hunting season, which begins the Saturday before Thanksgiving. As much as that holiday and Christmas, the nine-day season is a time when families and friends gather. In the woods, men, women and children all join in, and a child's first excursion is often viewed as a rite nearly as solemn as First Communion. But this year...
...make sense to do so before the end of the year. That's because starting Jan. 1, the rules for deducting the car's value from your taxes become much less favorable. Under the current system, you may use the car's fair-market value--what people call the Blue Book value--no matter what the charity does with the vehicle. But beginning next year, if the car is valued at more than $500 and the charity sells it to get cash, which many charities do, you are allowed to take only the amount collected from the sale. That could...
...conversion percentages, or stats on how well he has kicked from different yard lines, flashed on the screen--92% success inside the 10-yard line (the red zone), 98% between the 10 and 20 (orange), 89% between the 20 and 30 (yellow), and 69% between the 30 and 40 (blue). For Jets fans, it looked like the terrorism-alert matrix. Moments later, Stover nailed a 42-yarder from the blue zone (the end zone adds 10 yards to the distance), giving the Ravens a 2017 come-from-behind victory...
...reforms and closer ties to Europe or stick with state control and a tight relationship with Russia, coming that far was a remarkable achievement for Yushchenko. But even if he does ultimately prevail at the ballot box, that doesn't mean the crisis is over. Rather like red-state-blue-state America, Ukraine remains a divided and distrustful nation, with the Russian-speaking, industrialized eastern part of the country backing Yanukovych and the more nationalistic, agricultural west wanting Yushchenko. The two camps are as polarized as the reporting on UT-1's morning news broadcast...