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...today’s Tea Partiers some of the old colonial intransigence, so oddly like that of their own Young Men. It’s telling that the names of anti-fascist writers like Ayn Rand and George Orwell are so often invoked. In Tea Party eyes, the problem is simple: the U.S. government won’t leave well alone. All they really want is a bit of land and a house, maybe a firearm or two, and certainly the freedom to do as they like (within legal limits) without any civil servant nosing in. And they?...
...have eliminated every problem [from 2007],” he said. “We are trying to express as earnestly as we can how far we’ve come in terms of being transparent and having a system that students can trust...
This revulsion toward the nation's capital is understandable. But it makes the problem worse. From health care to energy to the deficit, addressing the U.S.'s big challenges requires vigorous government action. When government doesn't take that action, it loses people's faith. And without public faith, government action is harder still. Call it Washington's vicious circle...
...that it climb out of debt. Like the public itself, Perot believed there was a commonsense, nonideological way to cut the deficit, if only the two parties would stop bickering. His approach was simpleminded and ego-driven, but it forced both parties to make serious efforts to address the problem, and by the mid-'90s they had come together on behalf of fiscal discipline...
...growing up in the Internet age. "Digital information is infinitely copyable," Weber-Wulff says. But she adds that questions remain over just how much of a person's creative work can be copied and how that person is to be compensated for it. One group trying to solve this problem, she says, is a San Francisco-based nonprofit called Creative Commons, which helps artists and writers license and share their work on their own terms. (See the top 10 scandals...