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As A Parent And A Citizen, I'll Take A Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) Over Steve Jobs Every Time. If We Must Have Billionaires, Better They Should Ignore Jobs's Example And Instead Embrace The Morality And Wisdom Of The Great Industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Ever Since Richard Nixon Walloped George Mcgovern In The Presidential Election Of 1972, Political Pundits Have Treated As A Truism The Proposition That Liberals Are Out Of Step With The Rest Of The Nation, And Therefore All But Unelectable Outside The Precincts Of The Northeast -- Give Or Take A College Town Here Or A Ski Resort There. During The Course Of Every Presidential Election For The Past Forty Years Now, Republicans Have Sought To Wield The Word Liberal As If It Were A Six-gauge Shotgun.

Americans Get Mad As Hell With Reasonable Frequency But Quickly Return To Their Families And Sitcoms.

President Obama Has Lowered Taxes More Than He Has Raised Them, And They Are Today Lower Than They Were In President Reagan's Time. But You Don't Hear Conservatives Crowing About That.

If Bloggers Are To Improve Our Public Discourse - Helping Busy And Usually Uninformed People Make Sense Of The World - It Is Necessary To Use Some Sort Of Standard With Which To Judge Their Reliability. Perhaps The Answer (strictly Advisory) Is A Body Of Their Peers. Perhaps Not.