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"...the gloomiest assessment of economic well-being in close to half a century..."

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"Only four in 10 said they have moved forward in the past five years -- a record low, Pew says, and far off the record 57 percent who in 1997 said they had moved forward in the previous five years."

I don't think I know any of the folks who've actually moved forward, and I'll be that the majority of them aren't taking into account the in

Old School Social Engineering

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This is good news. State Rep. Mike Turner has a bill that will do away with forced busing in Nashville* ("Committee to discuss neighborhood schools bill March 19"). But I am amazed at the audacity of the Social Engineers who oppose such an idea . . .

Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss?

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When I read the news this morning that Fidel Castro, who has kept the Cuban people imprisioned in 1959 for half a century, has decided to retire, one of the first people I thought of was Carrie Ferguson Weir, a former Tennessean reporter and Cuban-American now running Los Pollitos Dicen, a company that markets Latino-themed apparel for babies and toddlers, and blogging at Bilingual in the B

Next Year in Havana

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When I read the news this morning that Fidel Castro, who has kept the Cuban people imprisioned in 1959 for half a century, has decided to retire, one of the first people I thought of was Carrie Ferguson Weir, a former Tennessean reporter and Cuban-American now running Los Pollitos Dicen, a company that markets Latino-themed apparel for babies and toddlers, and blogging at Bilingual in the B

Identity Crisis: Race And Gender Wars In Democratic Politics Continue

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The Left Wing Cracker comments on the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Women’s accusation that Ted Kennedy has betrayed the women’s movement with his endorsement of Barack Obama

Yes, you read that correctly. Ted Kennedy, the iconic progressive in the United States Senate for nearly half a century, has betrayed women. Right.

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