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Populism Is The Simple Premise That Markets Need To Be Restrained By Society And By A Democratic Political System. We Are Not Socialists Or Communists, We Are Proponents Of Regulated Capitalism And, I Might Add, People Who Have Read American History.

When Politicians Start Talking About Large Groups Of Their Fellow Americans As 'enemies,' It's Time For A Quiet Stir Of Alertness. Polarizing People Is A Good Way To Win An Election, And Also A Good Way To Wreck A Country.

Behind A Smoke Screen Of High-profile Female Appointees And Soothing Slogans, George W. Bush Is Waging War On Women.

It's All Very Well To Run Around Saying Regulation Is Bad, Get The Government Off Our Backs, Etc. Of Course Our Lives Are Regulated. When You Come To A Stop Sign, You Stop; If You Want To Go Fishing, You Get A License; If You Want To Shoot Ducks, You Can Shoot Only Three Ducks. The Alternative Is Dead Bodies At The Intersections, No Fish And No Ducks. Ok?

I Think Most Of Us Become Nicer As We Get Older, Less Judgmental, Less Full Of Certitude; Life Tends To Knock A Few Corners Of Us As We Go Through. Cancer, Divorce, Teenagers, And Other Plagues Make Us Give Up On Expecting Ourselves - Or Life - To Be Perfect, Which Is A Real Relief.