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....Though the eclipse of the Establishment is well-documented, the Political Class which replaced it is so far poorly understood. This is regrettable because the Political Class has come to occupy the same public space that the Establishment was supposed to until the end of the 20th century. This new class now stands at the pinnacle of the British social and economic structure. It sets social conventions, and demarcates the boundaries against which both public and private behaviour are defined. Unlike the old Establishment, the Political Class depends directly or indirectly on the state for its special privileges, career structure and...

NO, RUSH, WE DIDN'T HEAR IT FROM YOU FIRST. We read it HERE first. YES: we are establishing a permanent under-class... YES: we are establishing a permanent ruling class... Rember the name of your senator and representative... you will be reading that name for a long time; then their children will step up and rule us. The only thing that will change the names over time is when they screw up and get caught draining off our wealth for themselves - perhaps like the present case of William Jefferson (D., La) ... although it should be noted that, despite two...

....The presidential son, who moved to Las Vegas in 2003 and campaigned for John F. Kerry last year, said he's about to embark on a ''listening tour" of Nevada to find out ''if my fellow citizens feel the same way about me as I feel about them." Carter, an equities investor who lives with his wife in fast-growing northwest Las Vegas, said he's been contemplating a bid against Ensign for a while. ... ....Ensign spokesman Jack Finn said the senator doesn't know much about Carter and couldn't comment on a possible opponent. Ensign told a local journalist that he didn't...

This one's a real longie - below is an excerpt - but is plainly worth it, since Prof. Douglas seems to have been about ten years ahead of his time on this one.... ONLY FREEDOM OF EDUCATION CAN SOLVE AMERICA'S BUREAUCRATIC CRISIS OF EDUCATION by Jack D. Douglas Jack D. Douglas is a professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego. Executive Summary Most Americans have always been passionately devoted to education. The current national panic over our plummeting learning scores is only the latest sign of this devotion and is remarkably similar to the panics over...