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...That same year, Lott and Congressman Jack Kemp persuaded Reagan not to support the Republican Senate's efforts to reduce the cost of living allowances for Social Security, and the measure failed in the House. Two years later, Lott joined with Democrats to override Reagan's veto of a pork-larded highway bill, explaining that he wanted some of that spending for his district. And in 1990 he opposed President Bush over a deficit-reduction package that included both spending cuts and the "new taxes" Bush had forsworn...
Blame it on deregulation. The free-for-all in the skies that began in 1978 democratized travel and lowered fares--that's the good part. The bad part is that the industry has become a commodity business that serves millions of passengers a year but treats them like pork bellies. "Service appears to be declining over time," says Steven Casley, principal at Back Associates, an aviation consultancy in Stamford, Connecticut. "What's driving that is deregulation: cost cutting, fewer employees, fewer amenities and fewer services...
...this isn't a pork project that some political boss dreamed up. Russell truly believes the Undergraduate Council should lighten...
Rest assured that I did not take this dialogue at face value. Glazed Pork Loin's intent was clearly to criticize the Crimson Key Society's own unusual brand of humor, but surely there were other ways to make the point more effectively. Yet he chose to disregard the sensitivities of Demon's readers for the sake of making a trivial point. There is a real danger that readers flipping through the latest issue of Demon who do not have the time to ponder the subtleties of the authors' convoluted sarcasm would have taken away little more than...
...Holocaust denial and historical "reinterpretation" and "reconstruction," Glazed Pork Loin's flippant attitude cannot be dismissed simply as being in poor taste or excused as "politically incorrect" or "culturally apathetic." He gives us a sobering reminder of the work that awaits all those who would seek to preserve and to (now) re-dignify the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the infamous and inhuman acts of the German people and their cohorts. His is an attack upon the hallowed memories of all Jewish martyrs who are not alive to reply...