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Liberal That I Am, I Support Health-care Reform On Its Merits Alone. My Liberal Blood Boils, For Example, When I Read That Half Of The Personal Bankruptcies In This Country Are Brought On, In Part, By Medical Expenses.

I Think The Wikileaks Releases Furnish Us With An Opportunity To Observe The Upper Reaches Of The American Status Hierarchy In All Its Righteousness And Majesty. High-achieving Colleagues Attempting To Get Jobs For Their High-achieving Children. Foundation Executives Doing Fine And Noble Things. Prizes, Of Course, And High Academic Achievement.

A Lot Of Populists After Populism Died Just Became Socialists. At The Beginning Of The 20th Century, Socialism Looked Like It Was Going To Take Off. It Didn't, Of Course, But A Lot Of People Thought It Was Going To.

We Are Watching Industries Crumble, Wall Street Firms Disappear, Unemployment Spike, And Unprecedented Government Intervention. And Our Designated Opinion Leaders Want To Know: Is Obama Up This Week? Is He Down? And Is His Leadership Style More Like Bill Clinton's, Or Abraham Lincoln's?

Just As The Financial Crisis Has Created Toxic Assets And 'zombie' Financial Institutions, So Has It Transformed Conservatism Into A Movement Of The Living Dead.