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I had a friendly, though not particularly close, relationship with President Bush.

As doubts grew about the GSEs,

I should warn you—he's not at all respectful of you," she wrote. I suspected that was an understatement.

and because U.S. fiscal policy, although a headwind during most of the recovery, was less restrictive than elsewhere.

He spoke with expertise, but perhaps also from a perspective influenced by his post-Fed positions.

as had been the norm before the crisis.

and I would spend much of my professional career trying to better understand why deep economic depressions occur.

Jorgenson was invited to testify to Congress on the subject and he took me along.

There was absolutely no truth to the rumor,

had been lobbying aggressively against enhancing the Fed's authority.

Neither Tim nor I was thrilled with Sheila's plan.

Don't these spiritual johnnies swear some kind of hypocritic oath?!

Sleep no more!' I cried. 'Montgomery doth murder sleep.

But straw men are easier to knock down than real arguments.

As L. Brent Bozell pointed out at the time, just because society is in decay doesn't mean that Hollywood should be exacerbating that decay.

The goal: to convince young people that while they aren't overtly racist, they hold secret racist beliefs that can only be cleansed by embracing the leftist agenda.

The questions they prefer to ask are about your character; the questions they prefer not to answer are all of them. Instead, they like to dodge issues in favor of those character arguments.

Where the society preaches morality, the universities rebel against morality. Where the society embraces capitalism, the universities challenge capitalism. Where the society supports America, the universities disparage it.

Conservatives and portrayed as members of a conspiratorial power structure.

This is the Hollywood argument same-sex marriage: you like certain characters, so if you don't like their behavior, it's because you're mean and nasty. This is what Hollywood does best.

While colleges strive for ethnic diversity, they actively oppose ideological diversity.

Your goal is to make the left admit once and for all what they believe about policy by exposing those inconsistencies.

The question is not whether two people who love each other should be given state sanction – even the left recognizes that such a definition is too broad, given that it would include incestuous relationships.

I would really like to hear your policy prescriptions for what we should do about guns because you say you respect the second amendment. You know, I brought this here for you so you can read it. It's the Constitution,