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...nothing left to lose. The Democratic ex-governors of New York and Texas will appear in a 30-second ad during this Sunday's big game, swapping some tongue-in-cheek advice: "I should have seen it coming," says Richards. Replies Cuomo: "Maybe so, but now I think we ought to accept this change, embrace it, be positive about it, because change can be very exciting." It emerges that the duo is gabbing about nothing weightier than a new, improved Doritos Tortilla Chips package...
...think Reaganomics was an incredible success. We ought to stand up and be proud of the '80s." --House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex), quoted in the New York Times on January...
...jail within 15 years. He added, "I don't know why, but -- maybe because I visit a lot of schools -- that got through. I mean, that personalized it. That made it real." That could mean Gingrich is serious about shedding his party's whites-only image. If so, blacks ought to meet him halfway -- if only to temper the wilder impulses of one very scary white...
...sensed "a very real willingness to try to find a way to try to work together." The White House liked much of what Gingrich said. For example, on who could offer the bigger tax cuts: "We cannot have a bidding war. We made that mistake in the '80s. We ought to set a parameter with regards to the tax cut." To Treasury Secretary-designate Bob Rubin, Gingrich said, "We don't want to do anything that hurts us in terms of the markets." The White House took that as a sign the Speaker may be willing to scale back some...
Subsidiarity, then, is often just an intellectual and financial free lunch. And there are other problems as well. To function properly, government must be a monopoly. We can argue, as we do, about what taxes and regulations ought to be imposed on individual citizens, and what benefits ought to be made available. Even after that argument is settled democratically, though, subsidiarity can make the settlement hard to enforce...