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The Coming of the Fourth American Republic — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
The United States has been called the oldest nation in the world, in the sense that it has operated the longest without a major upheaval in its basic institutional structure. From one perspective, this characterization is fair. The nation still rests on the Constitution of 1787, and no other ...
State of the Stimulus         —         The American, A Magazine of Ideas
State of the Stimulus — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
american.com — On Friday, the Labor Department announced that the national unemployment rate rose by 0.4 percentage points to... 10.2 percent. This increase is larger than expected for October and represents the highest unemployment level in 26 years. However, this is ... (more) State of the Stimulus — The ...
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Sarah Palin and the Dysfunctional Political Class
Pajamas Media — ... also experts at blowing air into the CV. Palin was called inexperienced because she had never gone on a five-photo-ops-with-foreign-leaders-in-four-days tour, held show hearings on the topic du jour , introduced meaningless legislation, or had her staff give her a list of the publications she should say she was currently reading. James V. DeLong is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and a former Book Review Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Recent articles include The Coming of the Fourth American Republic and ...

Why Palin Scares the Elite - of Both Parties
Blogs For Victory — ... . Highly recommend this article, as well as DeLong’s The Coming of the Fourth American Republic. I can’t find anything to dispute with either article and both track exceptionally well with my own views. ...

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