LIBERALTARIANS & OTHERS

NEW REPUBLIC (2006) 12/11

14-17/ LINDSEY

How would you like to combine Liberalism and Libertarianism? The author tries to do so.

Liberals do not want regulation of people by birth status and life chances that is negative and Libertarians do not want people's property regulated or their personal life. It sounds convincing.

The two are a tiny portion of the country now, but perhaps there is synergism.

However, there is the issue that gets back to regulation. If you want to run a company and don't want people sticking there nose in your business about hiring children, safety regulations, pollution laws, collective bargaining and consumer groups, you are a Libertarian. All the above is what Liberalism means. Liberals want workers to be paid well, have good working conditions, and poor and middle income children to go to school rather than to go to work full time.

The Libertarian western part of the USA is conservative. What elects a Democrat from that area

is a few Liberal ideas (very few, but a few) and populism which supports the American worker and small businesses.

Lindsey's scenario is well thought out, but Liberals have more to lose with Libertarians than with

Populists. Libertarians must either accept regulations of a moderate amount or join Social

Conservatives that want to regulate one's personal life. The Democratic party is so diverse now

that Libertarians could join the rainbow, but might find that it is too geared to the common good rather than what a Libertarian can stomach.

17-23/ Crawley

The new speaker of the house has a political party that is at war with itself. Years ago (many years ago) the Democratic Party had powerful chairman that kept the chaos to a minimum by essentially

keeping the wars and the crazies under a lid. However, now it is on television and there are more

embed reporters that were kept away by Republicans, but can not be muted by Democrats.

Speaker Pelosi has got trouble on her hands. The Democratic party has been a minority of some kind sense the Vietnam war. That was a long time ago.The Conservative may be in disarray at the moment, but it won't take long to get back to basics. However they work it out, they will get it done. This is a conservative country with twice as many conservatives as liberals. So the writing is on the wall.

29-33/ SUNSTEIN

Every corporation and government agency maximizes fear of their central interest to get you to support their organization and it works. The latest is Homeland Security. The chances that you will be bombed are very very remote. Fear works. Your worst fear should be that you will die of

cancer or heart disease or die in a car accident. All else is remote. A bomb may go off but it is not likely to be where you are. However, like most us, fear is enough to worry about terrorists even though we should be worrying first about our heart and how we drive a car.So do you want to secure our borders and keep looking for terrorists? I am for it. What will I probably die from?

Heart attack.

THE GAZETTE (2006) 12/6 

1 E/ RIEHL

A couple that lives in New York City want to have kids and therefore want to move away from the Big Apple. The first city that votes a million votes will get this couple. Cedar Rapids is now

17th. You want them? Go to DannyandNina.com/

THE GAZETTE (2006) 12/7

3A/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Guess who is coming to dinner? Poor people. So, there goes the neighborhood. Suburbs are getting more and more poor people because low wages are increasingly dispersed all over the city.

Additionally, recent immigrants move two or three families into one house in the suburbs and so

poverty exists. Suburbs are growing faster than any other place in the city so marginal housing goes to poor people who double up with relatives. Cities use to suffer not it is all over as the economy

loses the middle class.

U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2006) 12/11

30-38/ ________

In Iraq, 2 million people have fled many from the professional class. More are expected to leave.

Iraq is now experiencing a civil war.

70-78/ Fischman

Alzheimer's appears to afflict more people today and at younger ages. There are now medications to delay much of the damage, but none to reverse it.

82-84/CAMOROW

There is still controversy over having a stent implanted that is bare metal or drug coated. Consult your cardiologists and perhaps get more than one opinion.

TIME (2006) 12/11

A2/ SIFRY

The blogosphere will potentially unite millions of people in conversations. It is here or on its way.

A16/  MENG

A new wristwatch will monitor your pulse and indicate critical dips that could cause strokes

or heart attacks.

A/18  CROSIER

Little robots will be built to go anywhere that is hard to enter that is an akward place.

A21/ POSS

Stinky trash can now be put in pretty green containers that will improve the neighborhood and make for easy collection.

63/ CAPLAN

Newspapers are not dead. They have some new ideas like Spanish editions, glossy mags, special blog news, and crowd sourcing (information from readers.)

70-77/KINGSBURY

Midwestern cities are getting more crime because more parolees are back on the street, there are fewer police, and there is higher unemployment.