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...much use for high-rises "as a hog has for a morning coat." By 1991, Charlotte was still a minor-league city without major-league sports, a cultural wasteland with a central business district that died every weekday after work. "No restaurants. No nightlife. Nothing," recalls seven-term Republican mayor Pat McCrory. "You could lie down in the street and never have to worry about getting run over." A local planner gained notoriety by proving it was impossible to find a Snickers bar downtown after 5 o'clock...
Barnes & Noble owners around the country must be suffering from sensory overload. Each week, they open a new shipment to find political hardbacks positively yelling at them. “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.” And more recently, “Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe,” by Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington.It’s a form of political intellectual...
...Alaska's campaign representative for Nelson Rockefeller's 1964 failed bid for the Republican nomination for President. That year, he experienced the biggest earthquake in Alaskan history and won his first elected office, as a member of the Alaska house of representatives...
They are different in so many ways: one Republican, one Democrat; one in his 70s, one in his 40s; one white, one black. But John McCain and Barack Obama share the genome of the alpha pol. Timing and instinct are among the dominant traits. How else to explain the fact that both men chose precisely the same day - nearly the same hour - to field press questions for the first time about the collapsing financial sector and the government's proposed $700 billion bailout? Like the cicada crawling up from the earth precisely 17 years after its mom lays her eggs...
...forth any concrete plan for deficit reduction. If, as the latest polls suggest, McCain is seen as less credible on the economy than Obama is - and losing ground as a result - the reason is probably that his evasion of reality feels staler than his opponent's. A Republican offering specific tax cuts but only vague pledges to reduce spending is old hat for today's voters. Although Sarah Palin helped McCain reclaim his maverick mantle for a few weeks, this meltdown has once again marked him with the Bush brand...