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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Tim: I don�t really think of Drudge as a �fair and balanced� news source, but he�s had the scoops faster than many others before. I know he broke Princess Diana�s death before anyone. He also was the one that got Linda Tripp the attention she needed to blow that whole episode wide open. It�s not an evaluative opinion of the site, I just find it extremely useful. Sol: I�m a little tired of �pundit� in the titles too. But you won�t share your Amy Acker source with us? :) Salth�na: I heard something yesterday that Bush�s lead went up to 52% once they started counting absentees. They didn�t mention how much Kerry�s lead dropped. (You never know how many people voted Nader�.) Jay: regarding being mugged by reality, I�ll give you a block quote that might explain it: [QUOTE]In Irving Kristol�s famous definition, a neoconservative is �a liberal who has been mugged by reality.� This is to say, certain stubborn facts about the world did violence to the optimistic aspirations of postwar political liberalism. This point is important for two reasons: First, it places the here and now front and center. Upon the (in principle) universal aspirations of liberalism and upon the current goals of liberal public policy, reality impinges, sometimes decisively. The getting from here to there is not a matter simply of will or declaration; rather, it entails resistance of a kind both foreseeable and unforeseeable. A policy that purports to compel a certain behavior en route to a certain outcome may or may not so compel the behavior and achieve the desired outcome. And in accordance with the law of unintended consequences, the most consequential outcomes may be far different from those the policymakers sought. A jobs training program (to pick one policy area out of multitudes discussed, especially in the pages of the Public Interest) does not necessarily result in (1) an individual trained to do a job and further (2) employment for the individual trained. [/QUOTE]The essay from which I took this [URL=http://www.policyreview.org/oct04/lindberg.html]here[/URL]. I won�t encourage you to read it because I, frankly, thought it got boring and I�ve read most of it elsewhere in snippet articles. But, along with [URL=http://www.thepublicinterest.com/archives/2004winter/article2.html]this article[/URL] you can find one stop shopping for all your neoconservative philosophy needs. (If I were recommending one or the other, read the second.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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