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[the Right] May Never Bring Prayer Back To Schools, But It Has Rescued All Manner Of Rightwing Economic Nostrums From History's Dustbins. Having Rolled Back The Landmark Economic Reforms Of The Sixties (the War On Poverty) And Those Of The Thirties (labor Law, Agricultural Price Supports, Banking Regulation), Its Leaders Now Turn Their Guns On The Accomplishments Of The Earliest Years Of Progressivism (woodrow Wilson's Estate Tax; Theodore Roosevelt's Anti-trust Measures). With A Little More Effort, The Backlash May Well Repeal The Entire Twentieth Century.

Vibrancy Is So Universally Desirable, So Totemic In Its Powers, That Even Though We Aren't Sure What The Word Means, We Know The Quality It Designates Must Be Cultivated. The Vibrant, We Believe, Is What Makes Certain Cities Flourish.

Governing Was Always Difficult For Conservatives, But As They Return To The Opposition, They Are Rediscovering Their Skill At Blame Evasion.

Above All Else Stands The Burning Question Of Bipartisanship. Whatever Else The Politicians Might Say They're About, Our News Analysts Know That This Is The True Object Of The Nation's Desire, The Topic To Which Those Slippery Presidential Spokesmen Need Always To Be Dragged Back.

The Only Truly Individualistic Health-care Choice - Where You Receive Care That Is Unpolluted By Anyone Else’s Funds - Is To Forgo Insurance Altogether, Paying Out-of-pocket For Health Services As You Need Them.