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That's icky. You're supposed to pull their legs off -- one at a time.
Was that Paul Volcker I heard chuckling? October 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins enacted August 1979 Carter appoints Volcker June 1981 Volcker raises
Having pretty much taken over the left side of the page, an insatiable M.J. is creeping rightward.
Maintaining full employment is a Wright Patmanesque type response to the fear that the Fed would act like a Bundesbank
The Fed (Bernanke in charge) has one job and one job, only -- the "setting" of interest rates which will
"What's the point of having this superb* military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?" * "splendid"?
In education, livability, transportation, quality of life, etc. has California been surpassed by -- Oh, my God! -- Texas? And
Agreed. As long as we're willing to shower mortgage investors (I don't like the polemical/demagogic term "banks") with undeserved lucre.
Allow me to throw a monkey-wrench into your mix -- In order for the government (Treasury under its MHA programs)
Personally, I'm shocked - and disappointed. No Brussels sprouts among Ole Saml's thanksgivings! I wonder if George H.W. Bush is
Start by canceling Prop 13 and the 1994 amendment requiring supermajorities to pass a budget. And eliminate the constitutional source
Especially, then! N.B. Some people think McCain lost because his policies were rejected by the American people. Not so; size
A President is not permitted to be shorter,way shorter, than his wife.
. . . a blend of counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, and civilian efforts . . . to gain allies . . .
In 1989 I read The Grand Failure in which Brzezinski predicted that the Soviet Union would suffer a thirty-year protracted