Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told a town-hall gathering in April--as his idol, Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. And as a devout libertarian conservative, the House majority leader steers by strong convictions--against farm subsidies, in favor of opening U.S. borders to more immigrants--even when those convictions put him at odds with some of his party's powerful interest groups...
Clint Bolick, litigation director for the libertarian Institute for Justice in Washington, predicts court-ordered desegregation schemes will be gone in 10 to 15 years. Their fatal error was in making racial balance a goal, which eventually led to admissions preferences for whites, "turning Brown on its head," says Bolick. "What all this shows is that social engineering doesn't work...
...while touring America in 1994, and has picked up a few high-caffeine marketing techniques. In January she opened the Cybercafe, a night spot in the lobby of the Beijing Concert Hall where both the wired and the wannabes gather to exchange E-mail and breathe the Internet's libertarian...
...vital to their districts. In the end, the 25 or so programs considered most egregious by critics from all sides--say, building logging roads for timber companies at government expense--saw their budgets nicked some $2.6 billion, or only 16%, says Stephen Moore, fiscal-policy director of the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute. And for all its denunciation of "aid to dependent corporations," the White House actually recommended a 4% increase in spending for those programs...
...also spoke about Israel's May 29 elections for prime minister, saying that as an American Jew and self-proclaimed civil libertarian, he supports conservative Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. He added that if he were an Israeli, he would probably give his vote to the more liberal government currently in power...