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Wallace's slogan was "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties," which is pretty much what Ross Perot said in 1992. And on the issues Perot took up???the budget deficit and NAFTA?he had a point. With Americans angry about the economy and angry at Washington, Perot made NAFTA?which both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton supported?a symbol of the public's discontent. Perot won 19% of the vote, mostly among downscale Republicans and independents who had backed Reagan during the cold war but by then feared Mexico...
...crossover effort can have limits. Entertainer-preacher Huckabee could simply end up being the best-liked candidate among people who will never vote for him. But he has already become the political embodiment of the megachurch approach: get people in the door with rock or cappuccino or stand-up???but get them in the door. "Religion and politics and show business are all about attracting people," Pelosi says. The big question is whether Huckabee can keep his lyrics from drowning out his music...
...Hermann's first full year at YSL, revenues rose 19%, to ? 194 million, and operating losses fell 24.9%. In the first quarter of this year, revenues are again up???35%?and stock analysts are predicting profitability sooner than was expected...
...young atheist who was brought up??in a Catholic household, I was appalled to see that being atheist was the worst possible position for a presidential candidate. Atheists are not soulless people without morals. One does not need to have faith in order to know right from wrong--it's called common humanity. It seems the only reason our nation looks for faith within ourselves and in our leaders is that we unfortunately have faith in neither...
What intelligent designer came up??with cancer and toothaches? Who "designed" your appendix and tonsils, organs that do nothing but get infected and cause you grief? How intelligent is the famously fragile human spine, or the narrow pelvis that makes childbirth harder for humans than for almost any other species? There are evolutionary explanations for all of these, but I hardly think there was much intelligence in designing halitosis, acne and flatulence...