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...According to Kennedy School of Government professor Paul E. Peterson, electorates tend to vote retrospectively, penalizing incumbents if they believe significant mistakes have been made but voting for them if they see signs of progress...
...know, this morning, the two big stories on CNN are Kanye West's mother, who died, apparently, after having some plastic surgery. The other big thing that's going on is whether or not this cop [Drew Peterson] killed his...wife. And meanwhile, you've got Pakistan in the midst of a real crisis, where these people have nuclear weapons that we helped them develop. You've got a guy in charge, who's basically declared himself the military strongman and is being supported by the Bush administration, whose raison d'etre for going into Iraq was to spread democracy...
Grunwald was right about all that is wrong with farm subsidies. Let's hope that he's wrong about the prospects for eliminating them--that citizens will wake up and demand they be halted. Contrary to the fears of House members Nancy Pelosi and Collin Peterson, a large number of rural voters get it that subsidies are killing their communities. The failure of reform in the House and Senate shows once again who really runs this country's agriculture: the likes of Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland. Shame on the reform-minded organizations that gave up and settled for crumbs...
...lawyers-turned-journalists, it’s sometimes a struggle to bring meaning to a national obsession with sensationalist legal cases such as the Scott Peterson murder case and the Michael Vick dog-fighting scandal...
Pelosi has warned her caucus that the next farm bill must include real reforms. But nobody ever opposes reforms in the future farm bills. "In five or 10 years, maybe we could get off subsidies," Peterson says. "That would be great. Farmers would love that...