Word: ideas
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...respectable ? intellectual identity. He is for a small government that loves tough, and that ordinary folk get to participate in ? namely, for campaign finance reform. He is for fiscal conservatism (a balanced budget and low taxes) and social libertarianism. He has based a so-far-successful governorship on the idea that government can be better, smarter, smaller and more accessible ? that it can be reformed. And he has the credibility that any reformer needs; at a time when globalization has made America and its citizens the richest and most powerful nation in the world, Ventura is a free-trader...
Wilson's speech, which detailed the founding of the project and some of the initial opposition to the idea, was genuinely thought-provoking. Her main theme was that leadership often involves taking on a project when everyone else believes that you're wrong, and she used the White House Project as an example of such an endeavor. Fundraising efforts for the project were somewhat hindered by the nature of the program--one which rises above both political parties and the money which flows from those parties. The candidates on the ballot are split fairly evenly among liberals and conservatives...
...idea that activists can work across party lines to promote the position of women in politics is at the same time both noble and flawed. Cooperation in the pursuit of a common goal is wonderful and rare, but when that common goal involves political office, I find it difficult, if not impossible, to separate activism from principled party politics. I asked Wilson during the question period how she could reconcile a non-partisan effort to elect a woman to the most partisan of offices. Seeing a woman elected president in the next 10 years is deeply important...
...mourned the anticipated loss of House character, and we bucked at the restriction on our freedom of choice. This latest announcement from the administration represents yet another paternalistic attempt at social engineering. Yet, we must admit, somewhat grudgingly, that it isn't such a bad idea...
...trial-watching world has heard oh-so-many times before. The government says Microsoft is a monopoly; Microsoft says it ain?t and in fact is under constant siege from an ever-evolving industry that has been out to topple it long before the feds ever got the idea. Taylor isn?t buying the Bill Gates line ? continually and spectacularly refuted by the emperor?s own private comments ? and he?s certain Jackson won?t either...