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...Sam Tanenhaus; Random House; 123 pages...
Burke. Buckley. Limbaugh? Modern conservatism has decayed from the positive, pragmatic force its founders envisioned into a bitter resistance movement that's given up on fresh ideas, argues Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review. While Richard Nixon backed national health insurance and Ronald Reagan tempered his muscular rhetoric with political flexibility, today's dominant conservatives are little more than "inverse Marxists," clenching an outdated dogma that would sooner see government destroyed than saved. The result is a shrinking movement inhabiting a "fringe orbit" irrelevant to the needs of today's America, an intellectual flatlining confirmed...
...Born Round you detail all the fake names and disguises you used to avoid detection in restaurants, and yet you seemed to get recognized all the time. Sam Sifton is your successor and his photo is already on the Internet. Do you think he'll be able to eat anonymously at all? It's going to get harder and harder as the years go by because of the advance of technology. It's easier for people to take pictures and it's easier to message them around. There's no way that a critic wouldn't have a deep digital...
...Washington A Popular Program Runs Out of Gas The Cash for Clunkers program rumbled to a halt after less than a month because of unexpectedly high demand. Buyers shed nearly 700,000 vehicles to claim government rebates on more-efficient models. Dealers complained that Uncle Sam was slow with payments, but consumers embraced the program, whose $1 billion budget was tripled by Congress after sales soared. Washington crowed that the effort created or saved 42,000 jobs. The bad news for Detroit? The three most popular models were Japanese...
...Since Aug. 28, Governor Schwarzenegger has requested and been granted five fire-management-assistance grants." He says FEMA will continue to work closely with California to make sure the state has the financial resources to combat wildfires. In short, if California is burned badly, it can turn to Uncle Sam for help to pay the bills...