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Breaking the Link Between Poverty and Low Achievement: Why Jeb Bush should be on Mount Rushmore Matthew Ladner , Goldwater Institute Daily Email, April 07, 2008 Imagine if we carved a Mount Rushmore for successful progressive governors. Since the root word of “progressive” is “progress,” I nominate former Florida governor Jeb Bush to make the cut. Progressives are concerned with the welfare of the poor. But a better definition, one might argue, would be someone who actually makes progress toward solving the problems of the poor. Like Jeb Bush. The Florida governor is a right-winger, to be sure, but he...

I read the advertisement in the Union-Tribune for the annual Miramar Air Show Oct. 14, 15 and 16, and my jaw dropped in disbelief. I just don't understand how the Blue Angels can justify fueling and flying these jets in their annual celebration given President Bush's plea to Americans to cut back on fuel usage. Surely there is something better that can be done with our military manpower other than a boastful display of flying skills, like perhaps airlifting supplies and materials to aid the victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Am I missing something here? Perhaps the thunder that...

<p>Kamen loves to work: "I’m somebody who is absorbed by work," he says. "And some people, I think, misunderstand that, and think that's a problem, or I don't get a chance to have fun. To me, life is a blur of my activities, I mean it's only a job if you'd rather be doing something else.”</p> <p>Kamen lives in a magnificent home in the hills of New Hampshire, a home he shares with the machines he so worships.</p>