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...their leading intellectual lights, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, has offered a Medicare reform proposal that should kill any chance he has of winning higher office: he would privatize Medicare and deliver unto the elderly vouchers that would gradually lose much of their value. This would save a boatload of money, of course ... but one wonders whether the party that gave the world "death panels" would stand behind such an all-out assault on the financial security of the nation's most devout voters. (See pictures of the partisan reaction to Barack Obama's State of the Union speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Calls Out GOP, but Nobody's Home | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...course, I'd still be paying a boatload for such a fine ride, but as a taxpayer, I'm writing regular checks to Chrysler anyway. What's one more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My $4,500 Lemon: Taking the Feds Up on Cash For Clunkers | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...Star junior Jeremy Lin, himself less than 100 percent for quite a few games this year, will be back, as will a talented cast of freshman contributors in Keith Wright, Peter Boehm, and Oliver McNally. Of course, Cornell will be back as well, returning a boatload of stars in Ryan Wittman, Louis Dale, and Chris Wroblewski. But Harvard has already shown it has the talent to down...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BRAD AS I WANNA BE: Recruits Bring Hope to Crimson | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...sinned. It has been three months since I last attended Mass. I have instead spent Sunday mornings attending total-body workout classes at the gym, after which I have been attending brunch. In other words, no uncommon circumstances kept me from coming to church. I expect as penance a boatload of Hail Marys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Confess, I Want Latin | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...Nonetheless, Elshtain, an Augustine expert, is willing to project Biblical morality into circumstances when denying entry to groups of immigrants is flat wrong, such as Franklin Roosevelt's unwillingness to admit a boatload of Jewish refugees from the Third Reich, resulting in their almost certain doom. But this, she writes, "is completely different from uncontrolled border crossing by people whose motivations are not life and death in the sense I am describing it but, rather economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the Bible Support Sanctuary? | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

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