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Os predicados do embaixador
«President Bush nominated Florida real estate developer Al Hoffman in July 2005 to serve as ambassador to Portgual. The post had previously been held by Mississippi venture capitalist John Palmer.
The founder and chairman of Watermark Communities, a Bonita Springs-based luxury condo development firm, Hoffman has a long history of helping members of the Bush family win high office. In addition to serving as finance chair of Jeb Bush's 1994, 1998 and 2002 gubernatorial campaigns, Hoffman headed the Florida fundraising efforts for both of George W. Bush's presidential campaigns. Hoffman, who owns an island near the Bushes' Kennebunkport estate in Maine, has also served as finance chair of the Republican National Committee.» (via Contra Factos & Argumentos).
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Suspeito Perneta Foge Da Polícia à Pé
EUA ? POLÍCIA EFICIÊNCIA ZERO. Em Orange County, Flórida, durante uma rotineira blitz de trânsito, um motorista, mal encarado, percebendo que ia ser abordado, empreendeu fuga. Perseguido pelos competentes policiais norte-americanos, o ? a essa altura...
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Patéticos Os Esforços ...
... dos blogues de direita nacionais -- mais bushistas que Bush! -- para tentar defender que a derrota dos Republicanos não foi uma derrota de Bush e que ela não teve por motivo fundamental a situação no Iraque. Não devem por isso perdoar ao ex-ministro...
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«ministro Da Ofensa»
É assim que o Detroit Free Press chama a Rumsfeld -- «Secretary of Offense» --, tirando partido da proximidade fonética, em inglês, entre “defense” e “offense”, e pedindo também a sua demissão.
«Donald Rumsfeld has to go. The secretary...
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Obama's Real Spending Record
By ARTHUR B. LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE, WSJ President Obama shocked us the other day when he said, "Since I've been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years." Having heard him champion the "multiplier effects" of...
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Economics For The Long Run
By JOHN B. TAYLOR, WSJ Individuals should be free to decide what to produce and consume, and their decisions should be made within a predictable policy framework based on the rule of law As this election year begins, a lot of people are wondering what...
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