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...know that there is an economic crisis going on? FlyBy has been living under a rock for the past year, but thanks to the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy, we've discovered that not even our love/hate relationship with the residents at Seattle Grace is immune from budget cuts...
...strong signal to the rest of the developing world that the Brazilian model - the post-ideological mix of orthodox market economics and progressive social policy championed by Lula - is the one to follow. "The IOC decision is an embrace of Brazil's practical way of doing things the past two decades," says Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. He adds that Brazil is the only country among the world's 10 largest economies today that hasn't hosted an Olympics. (Why Brazil is the one big country that may avoid recession...
...This past weekend, just a week after radio and television host Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally, the special interest group Family Research Council hosted what was essentially the second Republican convention of the month: the annual Values Voters Summit. Many speakers delivered offensive comments; particularly disturbing was youth leader Jason Mattera’s chauvinistic speech about the “hotness of Republican women.” But for the most part, speakers took care not to throw civility overboard with...
...same poll marked the high point for opposition to government that promotes traditional values since Gallup started asking the question in 1993. Democrats may hold power in Washington, but it seems the country is becoming less—rather than more—socially liberal. Over the past year, more and more Americans appear to be—in the most important sense of the word—values voters...
...promote, it does not bode well for Democrats to dismiss their points of view as extremist. This only serves to promote the image of the party platform as a mere checklist of economic reforms—an image that has lost us more than one election in the past...