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...Bernstein] made a claim that I’d been inconsistent about the tax cuts and I don’t think I had been,” Mankiw said. “Being opposed to a tax cut as a policy and being critical of an argument for tax cuts are two different things...
...Brendan J. Nyhan, a political science graduate student at Duke University and frequent blogger, points out that while Mankiw said he was “skeptical” of the claim that tax cuts could pay for themselves during his Senate confirmation hearing, Mankiw also denied that the administration had used “self-financing” arguments...
...McCain's support for the unpopular conflict has cost him dearly, particularly among the independent voters whose support was once seen as his main claim to being the most electable candidate in November 2008. But it has also come to symbolize the resolve that his advisers insist is McCain's greatest asset. "This is a guy who refuses to back down from his core principles," McCain's New Hampshire Vice Chairman Steve Duprey said in introducing the Arizona Senator to the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, eliciting one of the few rounds of applause and cheering in what was otherwise...
...against terror. "Islamic" terrorism is condemned by mainstream Islam as a practice contrary to the basic tenets of the faith (hence the need for inverted commas). This condemnation must take practical shape. Parents must be vigilant against the radicalization of their children; congregations must reject radical preachers who claim the mimbar (pulpit); the wider community must be ready to cast from its midst those plotting and carrying out criminal acts. With the Muslim community as an ally...
...former White House Counsel (and short-lived Supreme Court judicial nominee) defied a subpoena by a Congressional subcommittee, where she had been scheduled to answer questions on the Administration's controversial firings of federal prosecutors. The day before, Miers' attorney announced that she would heed President Bush's claim of executive privilege and not testify. In response, Rep. Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat and chairwoman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, ruled that the President's claims of executive privilege on behalf of Miers were not legally valid, setting into motion a process that could potentially result in charges of contempt...