. . . of Governor Rick Perry's slush fund for crony capitalism, the Texas Enterprise Fund, at least when the slush goes to his friends. But not . . .
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OUR CULTURED cousins, the Europeans -- role models for higher Dems -- hate math. So last weekend they . . .
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$57,420,181,300,000
America's "total debt" at 12:06 p.m. CDT yesterday. That's $692,192 per family. Total debt is the combined debt of households, businesses, financial institutions, and local, state, and federal governments. It includes the national debt mentioned below.
This number is scary enough, but it omits something that makes it scarier still: . . .
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THAT'S THE SOUND of the political ratchet moving America inexorably in the only direction in which the political ratchet works: toward welfare statism, and the cliff of fiscal disaster.
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ROMNEY NEEDS, over the next six months, to convince some number of swing voters he can and should be the next president. The easiest way to do this is by . . .
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Bogus numbers
Argentina's official inflation rate -- between 5 percent and 11 percent a year -- is a made-up number. It is so unreliable that the Economist now refuses to include it in economic tables. The real rate is at least twice what the government reports.
We are tired of being an unwilling party to what appears to be . . .
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THE FIRST OF EACH MONTH is Unca D's day to review mutual-fund investments. You should make your own decisions about how to invest, but here -- for what they're worth -- are mine.
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The real question: Will common sense be invited to hang around?
James A. Baker, III, recently chatted up the brass, editorial writers, and others at the Houston Chronicle, offering something exotic, even foreign, to the Clever Ones at that newspaper: common sense. And the Clever Ones, believe it or not, were enraptured.
Good for them.
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