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  • I could propose an expansion to the Payroll tax which no one could like: absolute insistence that brokerage firms take out withholding, with Everyone forced to file adeqate returns to get whatever was their own back.

    Is Kerry Listening?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The intent of the funding is to better educate women, to give them access to adeqate health care, to provide abortion as a last resort.

    Planet Atheism 2009

  • However, the fact that he was even in Niger and Mali, apparently without any form of serious self-protection including carrying adeqate side-arms or ammunition, speaks volumes for the naivete of the Canadian government, its vaunted diplomatic corps and the UN community, currently safely ensconced in Ottawa and New York's plush, ivory tower locales.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • However, the fact that he was even in Niger and Mali, apparently without any form of serious self-protection including carrying adeqate side-arms or ammunition, speaks volumes for the naivete of the Canadian government, its vaunted diplomatic corps and the UN community, currently safely ensconced in Ottawa and New York's plush, ivory tower locales.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

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