Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After visiting for parents' weekend this fall, Franken discovered that at Duke, "all the kids were well-rounded, and had social skills...
...debate notable for its in-depth examinations of Social Security policy and the morality of the free market, nearly all of the Republican candidates made direct pleas to younger voters...
...turning too often to Washington solutions. On Thursday night Forbes will almost certainly inform debate watchers that Bush tried to raise some taxes in Texas, that he allowed spending there to increase "a whopping 36%" and that he isn't committed to the fight against abortion--an opinion that social conservatives Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes will loudly second...
Indeed, Bush's success so far comes in part from nourishing political yearnings on both sides of his party. He sounds almost like a Democrat when he says saving Social Security is a high priority, but he makes like a conservative Republican when he adds that privatizing part of the system is the way to do it. In his Meet the Press interview, Bush broke with his party by endorsing the right of patients to sue their HMOs, but he burnished his social-conservative credentials by declining to meet with the leading group of gay Republicans. He's against hate...
Bush would increase the size and funding of the Department of Education, heresy to social conservatives, who would prefer to see the agency abolished. But if a public school fails to meet standards after three years, he would cut off its federal funds and turn the money over to parents in the form of vouchers, allowing them to send their kids to private school. He satisfies the right by praising conservative Supreme Court stalwarts Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas but sticks by his pledge not to use a pro-life "litmus test" in picking court nominees. And even...