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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
(from Steve Hayward at powerlineblog.com)THERE THEY GO AGAIN, AGAIN
So now it’s Nancy Pelosi’s turn, saying on ABC’s “This Week” yesterday: “Listen to Ronald Reagan when he talked about how unfair it was for a bus driver to be paying at the same rate as a millionaire. . . . He speaks beautifully to the unfairness of that scenario.”
Sigh. Well, good news: my Commentary magazine October cover story, “The Liberal Misappropriation of a Conservative President,” is now out from behind the subscriber firewall, and not a moment too soon. If this keeps up, we can expect even Jimmy Carter to say “Reagan was right all along!”
As failed solar panel manufacturer Solyndra rides through the investigative ringer in Congress, revelations of another politically-connected company that received what appears to be a less-than-virtuous $1.2 billion loan guarantee are surfacing.(full story at dailycaller.com)
The company, SunPower, received its $1.2 billion loan guarantee in September, immediately before the program’s deadline.
SunPower isn’t as financially sound as the public was led to believe when it secured a loan guarantee twice the size of Solyndra’s $535 million loan.
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b: Ari Fleischer (1960); d: Jozef Tiso (1887), Sidney Webb (1947), Gus Hall (2000)