ILF POST

By Gloria Feldt The headline summed it up so accurately it made my teeth hurt: “Republican Unity Trumps Democratic Momentum” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/washington/21cong.html
Robert Pear and Carl Hulse wrote the article that sums up Congressional Democrats’ 2007 accomplishments, or lack of them, in the New York Times, December 21. But whoever wrote [...]

By Charles Lindblom In a market oriented system like ours, presumably we can make some good (if only rough) estimates of what we value — of what is really important to us — by looking at what we spend. We spend heavily on national defense and on recreation, for examples, and we do [...]

By Linc Bloomfield The National Intelligence Estimate released last week (and for a change not leaked), stunned people with its conclusion that Teheran had stopped work in 2003 on nuclear weaponry, putting into question the increasingly belligerent White House rhetoric. Many breathed a sigh of relief at this happy ending to a highly troubling development [...]

By ILF Fellow John Vasconcellos, a lawyer, lifelong California legislator, a former California State Senator, where he headed the powerful Ways and Means Committee, and a major political influence. Now retired because of term limits he heads a movement called the Politics of Trust. http://www.politicsoftrust.net/

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