Good piece by Bruce Bartlett:
The only thing holding this country back from having a welfare state as large as Europe’s, conservatives argue, is the low level of taxation that most Americans are loath to abandon. Thus in their own minds, conservatives believe that holding the line on taxes, no matter how large the deficit, is […]

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History buffs might have already seen this, but it’s amazing nonetheless: On the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher appealed to Mikhail Gorbachev to keep Germany divided:
Thatcher:
We are very concerned about the processes taking place in Eastern Germany. Some big changes could happen there, forced partly by the state of the […]

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Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian (U.K.):
If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift.
Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been […]

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