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Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is more exuberant. Government projections, he notes, are based on a 4% yearly increase in tax revenues--but, in fact, revenues have risen an average of 7% for the past five or six years. If that continues, he says, "you start getting very enormous budget surpluses very quickly": $40 billion to $50 billion this year, "well over $150 billion by the year...
...things are going to get better. That view of Kristol's forced me to rethink my own liberalism. That's what I think a person of the left gains from reading a conservative carefully; I mean if you read Robert Nozick, a Harvard professor, I think he's a Libertarian or at least a man of the right--to read someone like that or to talk to [William F.] Buckley is to learn that there are aspects of the conservative message that are interesting, moral decay and so forth, although I don't necessarily agree with where they pinpoint...
...Hail Mary play will work remains to be seen--as does the question of how long Gates' capitulation will last. The settlement merely delays the underlying case until April 21, when Microsoft's appeal is scheduled to be heard by a three-judge panel, viewed by antitrust sources as libertarian-leaning and thus possibly pro-Microsoft. By then programmers will be working with early versions of Windows98, which integrates Explorer even more fully--thus in theory solidifying Microsoft's hammerlock...
...Blue Dogs, the NDC's members hail not from rural districts but from suburban ones. While the Blue Dogs represent old industries, the New Dogs, as they are called, talk about the high-tech economy. They get excited about things like encryption law. Their constituents are essentially contented, libertarian and relativistic. While the Blue Dogs barely survived Clinton, the New Dogs pattern themselves in his image. They were his key allies behind enemy lines when he squared off against Richard Gephardt on the 1997 balanced-budget agreement. And unlike the Blue Dogs, their numbers are growing. The NDC boasts...
...Jersey Republicans rated her favorably in a recent poll. Her veto of a partial-birth-abortion ban alienated many conservatives in this highly Roman Catholic state. The Christian Coalition plans to distribute 1 million election guides reminding voters of her stance. The beneficiary of alienated conservatives may be Libertarian candidate Murray Sabrin, who is targeting right-to-life voters...