Somebody, please give Sarah Palin a copy of the U.S. Constitution

Chris Matthews understands the problem.  The Vice-President is not "in charge" of the Senate. Even McCain's own policy advisers know that Palin's abject ignorance of the VP's job duties and her recently disclosed extravagance are, finally, putting the McCain campaign where it should have been many months ago:  in the…

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Our failure to plan

We no longer have the discipline and intelligence to plan, and that is our biggest problem, according to James K. Galbraith, who wrote a piece called “Plan” in Harper’s Magazine. Our system is not capitalism.  Our economy has a large public sector, which at its best was competently concerned with…

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