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Political parties are machines, and last night, the Republican Party broke. To fix it, conservatives must update their blueprint and learn the right lessons from...
Still, after last night’s blowout, conservatives have a blueprint for reform. They must adapt conservatism to the needs of the day and inject some life into their party. If they fail, the GOP will continue to sputter, and Democrats will be eager to pick up the scraps...
...possibility that he would govern. He set up a transition team last summer, led by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, one of the best-connected - and least self-aggrandizing - Democrats in Washington. Podesta's team is compiling a book of perhaps 50 chapters to use as a blueprint for a new Administration. All this activity opened Obama to criticism from McCain that he was prematurely "measuring the drapes" of the Oval Office. Instead of drapes, though, the Illinois Senator seemed to be thinking of Cervantes, who declared, "To be prepared is half the victory." Indeed, one of Obama...
...endangered monk seal of Hawaii is entanglement in derelict fishing gear, according to Keith Criddle, a marine-policy professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Off North Carolina's coast, ghost crab pots continue to trap and kill diamondback terrapin turtles. In a 2004 report titled An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy found that at least 267 different species were affected by derelict fishing gear, including 86% of all species of sea turtles. "Fishing gear is intended to catch things, so if it gets lost, it can catch and kill things...
...have taken a more active role in going after firms that misleadingly sold long-term auction-rate securities as cash-like investments, as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who filed complaints against a number of companies, has suggested. In April, when the Treasury Department put out a blueprint for reforming financial markets, which included a possible abolition of the SEC, Cox probably didn't bolster his staff's spirits by not immediately standing up for his agency's autonomy...