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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Mr. Obama, Get Us Out
Socialism For Any Occasion
BY FROMA HARROP Many conservatives think they’ve found a winner in tarring President Obama and his allies as “socialists.” Earnest attempts to explain why “it isn’t so” are futile, as is asking people what the heck they mean when they say raising taxes is “socialism.” In a heroic effort to force a definition into the […]
Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest
Really? O’Reilly?
BY SUSAN ESTRICH What’s Bill O’Reilly doing at a benefit for rape victims and their families? Helping them raise money. Last time I checked, that’s a good thing. I disagree with much of what Bill has to say on most subjects. I think he feels the same way about me. That’s fine. But he happens […]
Springtime For New England Republicans?
BY FROMA HARROP There was a time when New England sent lots of Republicans to Washington. These were fiscally conservative but socially liberal “Rockefeller Republicans,” also found in the Northwest, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. As the party turned socially conservative and fiscally reckless, many Yankees departed. The trend culminated in the George W. Bush Administration, […]