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...revolution? The simple answer is that there are just too many contenders this go-around. The more complicated answer lies inside the Republican Party of Texas, where Perry has nurtured issues dear to social conservatives but alienated the older wing by pushing a new business tax and a privatized toll road plan. Republican voters, as a result, will split their vote this year between Perry and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the 67-year-old Republican state comptroller who is running as an independent...
...Strayhorn, who bills herself as "One Tough Grandma" and is the mother of ex-White House spokesman Scott McClellan, has turned Perry's toll road "fiasco," as she calls it, into the centerpiece of her campaign while attracting teachers upset about school finance. But even Strayhorn, one of the state's most popular officeholders, has been unable to break out from the "anti-Perry" pack. She stumbled during the lone gubernatorial debate, leaving an opening for the little-known Democratic candidate Chris Bell. The 46-year-old Bell, a former U.S. Congressman who filed the first ethics complaint against DeLay...
Even if the impetus for eliminating tolls was intended to be somehow progressive by helping low-wage commuters, toll prices have already been built into housing prices and wages, so it’s clear that this matter did not warrant such extreme action. In a choice to essentially grant a subsidy to either motorists or subway passengers, the state of Massachusetts has chosen the former, and in so doing, demonstrated its backwards priorities...
...that 25 houses had been razed to the ground, and their inhabitants killed and injured as Taliban fighters took shelter behind their walls, using the local population as human shields. Niaz Mohammad Saradi, district governor of Panjwai district, said 60 people were killed, while other officials put the death toll as high as 85. NATO says it has confirmed 12 civilian casualties. Whatever the final number, the mounting bloodshed among old men, women and children in southern Afghanistan is whittling away support for the NATO mission...
...selling their surplus stocks as "cleanskins" - bargain-priced bottles that show neither the winemaker nor the winery. Even so, Sam Tolley, chief executive of the awbc, reckons it will take at least another two years before supply and demand get back in line. Letting the free market take its toll is not the way of French agriculture. That's one reason why the pain caused by the glut is less acute in France than in Australia. But it also helps to explain why the French lost out so badly in export markets in the first place: their producers are bound...