pajamasmedia.com - 11/7/2008
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These chart from the Heritage Foundation illustrating the inexorable increase of government spending illustrates the terrible tension between tax rates and government “help”. Federal spending grew much faster than median income.
As defense spending continues to fall as a percentage ...
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Stones Cry Out —
... Emanuel one view. Another.
Links.
One view on McCain’s loss. Another.
Goin’ to the big city … and as a coda, now I’m seeing it in more than one place … I’m going to have to read some Rawls it seems … even thought what I have seen seems very flawed.
The visible body of Christ.
Inequity in wages … and the parties.
Will Obama slow that growth?
A biker won.
Voting and felons, on ...
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