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...Ralph Pucci The A Chair by Jens Risom ($6,390, ralphpucci.net
...fight, and the deeply ingrained subsidy programs will require a struggle to dismantle. Farming has a particularly strong valence in our national consciousness. The image of the courageous yeoman farmer, rising at dawn to milk the cows seems as American as apple pie or corn-based ethanol. As Ralph Grossi, president of the American Farmland Trust, told the Wall Street Journal, farmers are perceived as “hard working, salt of the earth, a core part of our culture.” Perhaps this sentiment, combined with the political clout of farming states like Iowa and the $80 million...
...Knock Nader! I had to chuckle at Joel Stein's essay in which he argued that Ralph Nader should apologize for running for President in 2000 [March 10]. Stein and the Democrats don't understand the Nader voter. I voted for him because I didn't feel the Democrats deserved my vote. As a longtime liberal, I'm interested in a truly progressive Democratic Party, not one that is Republican lite. If Nader weren't running this year, I still wouldn't vote for a Democrat. The party should stop complaining about Nader and try to earn my vote...
...even if Paul's ideological purity is never going to get him to the White House, it does help illuminate the impurities - and sometimes the hypocrisies - of today's Republicans, just as Ralph Nader can do for the Democrats. The G.O.P. candidates all claimed to defend taxpayers, but Paul was the only one who refused to accept a taxpayer-funded pension or taxpayer-funded junkets. The candidates all talked about shrinking big government, but Paul was the only one who included the Pentagon and NSA wiretaps and petroleum subsidies in his definition. Bush's approval ratings have been abysmal...
...argument that the challengers presented was that affirmative action had to be among the policy options of the government,” he said. “However, there is nothing in the law to that effect.” But Black Men’s Forum President Ralph L. Bouquet ’09 said that he was “disappointed in the court’s decision.” “This is a really complex issue,” he said. “I feel that the court did not take into account...