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...Helgen ’08 authored a pair of ho-hum editorials supporting more women in leadership positions. And, most self-serving of all, HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 forwarded his “moderate” credentials by rebuking a non-existent vast right-wing conspiracy...
...Michael Moore: Then Kucinich, but he doesn?t go far enough. He supports what he?s calling a single- payer nonprofit plan, but from my read, it would still allow [private] entities to control things, as opposed to the government. What?s wrong with the government? The right wing and the G.O.P. have done a wonderful job brainwashing people that government doesn?t work, and then, as Al Franken says, they get elected and proceed to prove the point. [Laughs...
...others, let's clear the stage. There are three pairs of also-rans. Tommy Thompson and Jim Gilmore were fine Governors, but they have nothing to add here. Both of the right-wing populists, Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter, seem obscure and insubstantial, a classic problem for House members running for President; neither is as compelling as Pat Buchanan, who has played this role in the past. I've been surprised by how ineffective Tancredo has been in making his anti-immigrant pitch, which should have some resonance in the Republican Party. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee seems...
...home of the main UT campus and the D.A. prosecuting Tom DeLay, has valid claim to the title--but Democrats now occupy not only the Dallas mayor's office and most city-council seats (which are only technically nonpartisan) but also 57 of 84 offices in sprawling, once right-wing Dallas County...
...Wade rather than overturn it. Even as the bookstores filled with alarmed accounts of the rise of a new American Theocracy, what many conservative Christians saw was that the boardroom, not the sanctuary, remained the real Republican hallowed ground. When the Christians' interests clashed with the G.O.P. business wing, the money talked. Disgust with pornography, distaste for women working outside the home and concerns about religious freedom in China would not translate into policies that might inconvenience corporate America...