news.yahoo.com - 12/15/2008
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It looks as if we are going to have to relive all of the mistakes of the 20th century one more time--let's hope it is one last time--before we relearn the big lesson of that century: the moral and material superiority of capitalism and the disastrous consequences of socialism in all its forms. ...
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Skipping toward the road to ruin
QandO —
... Robert Tracinski has written a great piece about it, saying, in fact, it is the return of the Old Left we’re seeing - "the mid-20th-century left of public-works giantism, ham-fisted labor union protests, and command-and-control central planning." ...
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Maggie's Farm —
... NYC this year. Just a photo suggestion for the fellas: If you have any $ left, and she is kind and gentle, worries about your contentment, speaks soothingly to you, and takes good care of you, why not give her some diamonds? Fairfield, CT: What sort of dumb town would put 14% of their pension assets into a single hedge fund? And to read about that Orthopedic group is pathetic. Even docs should know better than that. The return of the Old Left. Oh man, not again. How many times can they crawl out of their ...
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