Word: ken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took in the late 20th century. There were good reasons for the turn: a new understanding of the inefficiencies of socialism and initiative-stifling government bureaucracies. But there were terrible reasons as well. Starting in the 1960s, Republicans exploited Southern opposition to integration, as the G.O.P. National Committee chairman, Ken Mehlman, recently admitted. This implicit racism evolved into a tacit unwillingness to rethink problems of poverty and race-an unwillingness shared by Democrats, who clung to old bureaucratic solutions and cosmetic remedies like affirmative action-and worse, to the denigration of a basic governmental role: the need to plan...
...Mart?nez es m?s que el primer senador cubanoamericano de los Estados Unidos. Por ser uno de s?lo dos hispanos en el senado de EE.UU. (el otro es el senador dem?crata Ken Salazar de Colorado) y porque representa a La Florida con su clave poder electoral, Mart?nez es quiz?s el legislador hispano m?s importante del pa?s. Cuando fue electo el pasado oto?o, Mart?nez era considerado poco m?s que un lacayo del presidente George W. Bush. Pero Mart?nez puso fin a esos rumores cuando esta primavera pidi? el cierre de la controversial prisi?n en Guant?namo y declar? que el gobierno estaba ignorando...
...KEN GOURLEY...
...felt like five years of political warfare in concentrated form. Naturally it would feature Rove, as brass-knuckled a player as has walked onstage in a generation. But in addition there was John Kerry, promoting a Fire Rove petition on his website. There was Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman declaring that it was not Plame or Wilson but Rove who was the victim of "blatant partisan political attacks." There was White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who had once called the notion that Rove was involved "ridiculous," looking like a piñata as he refused again and again in long...
...second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Florida Governor Jeb Bush has made several recruiting calls to Bense, who headed to Washington last week where he was serenaded by a powerful trio--the President's top political adviser Karl Rove, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman and Elizabeth Dole, who heads the Senate committee for recruiting G.O.P. candidates...