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...Palin Effect I must confess I'd been struggling to understand the recent surge in the popularity of Sarah Palin until Joe Klein put it all into sepia-toned perspective [Sept. 22]. I realized that her appeal reflects a wistful desire for an American abstraction, a wholesome place in our memory that is no more-and perhaps never was. We want to be reminded of who and what we think we were, not who we are. But yearning for our past, real or imagined, will not bring it back. And I fear that after the tribulations of the past eight...
...Tory RisingIn her profile of british conservative leader David Cameron, Catherine Meyer failed to note that the United Kingdom is effectively governed by the European Union in that about 70% of the laws enacted by our Parliament are required to comply with E.U. regulations. Within a few years, after the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty are progressively brought into effect, our subordination to the E.U. will be complete. Regrettably, that final outcome accords with the Conservative Party's consistent policy since the Prime Ministership of Edward Heath, who took Britain into the European Economic Community in 1973. The Conservatives have...
...Palin Effect...
...government tried several stop-gap measures to no effect and in late 1992 opted for a complete re-booting of Sweden's financial system. Conservative Prime Minister Carl Bildt's administration sat down with the center-left opposition and came up with a bipartisan, multi-tiered approach. The government issued blanket insurance for a period of four years to creditors in all the country's 114 banks. It established an agency to oversee all banks that needed recapitalization and told them to immediately write down their losses...
...economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should,” and any contributions the two might add to the debate can surely be made by other politicians. In fact, the candidates’ presence in Washington could even have the detrimental effect of “injecting presidential politics into this process or distract[ing] important talks about the future of our nation’s economy,” as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggested. What is essential, however, is for the American public to see the candidates exchange policy proposals...