Word: republicanisms
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...your 10 Questions with Bobby Jindal [March 16]: If I hear another Republican politician spout the talking point that health care should be between patient and doctor and not a bureaucrat, I'm going to pull out what little hair I have left. My wife and I are self-employed. Our health-care costs eat up much of our annual income, and neither of us has a chronic illness. I would much rather have a bureaucracy deliver affordable coverage at whatever inconvenience than be squeezed dry by rapacious Republican-loving drug and insurance companies. Mark Dunn, ALBUQUERQUE...
...Salvador Rebels Take Power, Peacefully A political party largely composed of former leftist guerrillas swept into power in El Salvador's presidential election on March 15, ushering in a new era for a nation dominated for two decades by the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance. Mauricio Funes, a former television journalist and the first Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front candidate never to have served as a guerrilla commander, capitalized on voter disaffection with widespread poverty and soaring crime rates to win 51% of the vote. Funes, who styles himself as a political moderate in the mold of popular Brazilian President...
...associate Census director in the 1990s, Groves angered Republicans by supporting a statistical adjustment to compensate for the 1990 undercount - a move that was eventually squashed by the then Republican Commerce Secretary overseeing the Census Bureau. The Supreme Court later ruled that statistical sampling cannot be used to apportion congressional seats but can be used for other purposes, such as legislative redistricting and, of course, doling out dollars. (Read "Why the 2010 Census Stirs Up Partisan Politics...
...massacre once again,” said Daniel A. F. Demetri ’09, a Democrat who, along with his Republican roommate Zachary V. Smith ’09, organized the first-ever brawl during his freshman year. “Dems are just worse with guns,” he said...
Even after its founders have graduated, the spirit of friendly Democrat-Republican rivalry will remain. Motley said he plans to publicize the paintball brawl to incoming freshman during a debate between the Democrats and Republicans on prefrosh weekend, while Garber said that the Democrats and Republicans are considering organizing a laser tag event for next year as well...