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Michael C.D. Macdonald

Getting Risky Teens Off Our Highway

America’s young drivers are a problem as old as the Christmas gift of a new La Salle given to an entitled tyke in Appointment in Samarra. “The kids knew he was going to get it all along,” John O’Hara wrote. “His mother told him beforehand. He smashed it up New Year’s Eve.”

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Getting Risky Teens Off Our Highway

America’s young drivers are a problem as old as the Christmas gift of a new La Salle given to an entitled tyke in Appointment in Samarra. “The kids knew he was going to get it all along,” John O’Hara wrote. “His mother told him beforehand. He smashed it up New Year’s Eve.”

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Public Financing Can Smash Wall of Money

After Congress passed a set of weak lobbying reforms following the Jack Abramoff scandal, Senator John McCain said, “The good news is there will be more indictments, and we will be revisiting the issue.” Meanwhile, the best way to rein in the army of 34,000 lobbyists in Washington was urged by John Edwards and Dick Read More

Public Financing Can Smash Wall of Money

After Congress passed a set of weak lobbying reforms following the Jack Abramoff scandal, Senator John McCain said, “The good news is there will be more indictments, and we will be revisiting the issue.” Meanwhile, the best way to rein in the army of 34,000 lobbyists in Washington was urged by John Edwards and Dick Read More

To Enliven Politics, Ask a Few Questions

His ratings in free fall, President George W. Bush’s charm offensive is on: more press conferences, the hiring of “maverick” Tony Snow, even Dubya’s second fiddle to impersonator Steve Bridges at the White House correspondents’ dinner gag fest. Gone, for now anyway, is that “bubble” protecting Mr. Bush from what a senior advisor to the Read More

To Enliven Politics, Ask a Few Questions

His ratings in free fall, President George W. Bush’s charm offensive is on: more press conferences, the hiring of “maverick” Tony Snow, even Dubya’s second fiddle to impersonator Steve Bridges at the White House correspondents’ dinner gag fest. Gone, for now anyway, is that “bubble” protecting Mr. Bush from what a senior advisor to the Read More