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...relatively unknown opponent, Reed's connection to the Jack Abramoff congressional lobbying scandal unmasked the candidate who built his career on the issue of values as one who apparently had his own questionable values. And so it was that Tuesday Reed lost both his party and his religious conservative base in a humbling Republican primary defeat, losing by nearly 20 points to Casey Cagle, a state senator from Hall County...
...Only around one-fifth of Americans oppose federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, for example. But they are, by and large, active Republican base voters who are already alienated and threatening to withhold support from Republicans this fall. The majority of suburban voters support the promise of stem cell research that might cure their parents' Alzheimer's disease or their kids' diabetes. The measure that passed today would be popular with them; its expected failure will please the base at their expense...
Oriental Weavers has been adding capacity at 20% annually since 2003 to meet demand for its value-for-money products. That includes a small weaving facility outside Atlanta to reduce lead times for urgent U.S. orders. Eyeing a huge potential customer base in Asia, the company opened a plant in Tianjin, China, this year that will serve the Chinese market. Lately it has been having fun with a deal to produce carpets with the Andy Warhol Foundation, using the artist's designs. Farida Khamis says the company aims to become a market leader in a new product line: home textiles...
...character and soul born from the inspiration and design process," says Cobonpue, adding that his ideas come mostly from the natural richness of Cebu. One exception is his award-winning Lolah chair, which Cobonpue says was inspired by a softly dented can of Coke. Talk about turning base metals into gold...
...sign of strength in these dangerous times. So his willingness to exercise his first-ever veto this week on a bill that would expand federal funding for human embryonic-stem-cell research, which 2 out of 3 voters favor, is not just a way to stroke his political base. "People like leadership much better than a finger in the wind," says White House press secretary Tony Snow. As Bush explained to him while in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the G-8 summit last week, "I took a position. I believe in it. So that's what I'm going...