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...their haste to dodge Tokyo’s mistakes, Obama and his advisers are making their own. Thinking government must spend something??anything—to boost the economy, Democrats scraped the pork barrel for ideas: $650 million for digital TV converter box coupons, $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities, $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint...
...Democrats and Republicans will never agree,” the conventional wisdom declares, “Why even bother?” In the end, some of the past two decades’ most critical legislation was sacrificed to political expediency and Congress’s desperation to get something??anything—done. Comprehensive immigration reform was, after years of personal investment by President Bush, finally scrapped; ratification of the Kyoto Protocol was quietly shelved by the Clinton Administration. At least Hillarycare went down in a passionate and ignoble blaze...
...that is really something??something Now. How am I supposed to know any better than you? And, for that matter, how are you supposed to know any better than I? You may have the power, but I’d be glad to show you where you can stick...
...like it might have been an oasis of fun bisecting two almost-twenty-year dry spells. At it, the then-associate dean of freshmen worried that “the damn balloons” might get stuck in the rafters of Annenberg Hall—a sure sign that something??s gone right...
...good fortunes,” and that successful men were “indebted to themselves for themselves.” Today, the speech is often read as a proclamation of “the American Dream,” the idea that men can go from nothing to something??as Douglass himself did—if only they would work hard enough. This whole Rags-to-Riches trope, says Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestsellers “Blink” and “The Tipping Point,” is actually nothing more than...