Following Bush senior, Obama pushes community service

After so much talk from the right about the socialist dangers of Obama's national service initiative,  it is clear that it was Bush Sr. who began the trend toward increased community service and programs in...

GOP probe, NEA questions , and Yosi Sergant's resignation

The artist as dissident ,  always?  Howe and Strauss would beg to differ:  Might not there be a time for a resurgence of the FDR-era concept as the "Artist as Servant of State Power",  as...

Poll: 73 Percent Say Congress Should Return AIG Cash

As President Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) continue to point fingers over which one of them is to blame for the stimulus bill's "Dodd Amendment," which specifically excludes bonuses from caps on executive...

A Moral Hazard of Global Proportions: The Naked Economist - Yahoo! Finance

" Suppose you could swagger into a bar, jump the queue for ordering drinks, and hurl insults at the other patrons, all the while relentlessly hitting on the wives and girlfriends of the male customers.Then, just when some guy with a big Harley-Davidson tattoo on his forehead...

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