I ran the text of the GOP’s Purity Test as reported in the NYTimes through Wordle to generate a visualization:
It appears that the GOP is supporting opposition of, well, everything. Or something.
Posts Tagged: ideology
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Jun 09
Daily Links for June 17th
- Stealing Share | Increasing Market Share | Branding Company | Beer Market Study – Growing Market Share for Beers – The following glance at the beer market will give you a quick peak into how Stealing Share operates. Although this is just a cursory analysis, it suggests a brand position beer brands could use to steal share based on our own experience and expertise in branding beer brands.
- Apology Not Accepted – The Daily Beast – From a tasteless joke about teenagers to a patriotic paean to servicewomen in harm’s way—this does not sound like a politician intent on putting an end to the story. Rather, Palin is leaving herself wiggle room to talk about it some more.
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Apr 09
Daily Links for April 15th through April 16th
- How Wawa became a success | Philly | 04/16/2009 – From a modest Delaware County milk-delivery business, Wawa has become the region's third-largest food merchant, behind Acme and ShopRite, according to Food Trade News. It employs 16,000 people and sells 195 million cups of coffee a year at its 570 stores in five states, and is among the top 10 coffee sellers in the country. Its revenue was about $1.6 billion last year, not counting the gas it pumped, which constitutes about 1 percent of the nation's total.
- How To Nail An Interview –
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Sep 06
The Libertarian Problem…
In the last few months, some enterprising Libertarian diggers have been heavily promoting LewRockell.com and the VonMises Institute, as well as the popular Penn & Teller's Bullshit! series on Showtime. Although some have attributed the high amount of diggs to a gaming of the system via an organized process by the Libertarians, it's easy to understand the allure of the ideology.
I have to admit, I have been smitten by the concept of Libertarianism. But alas, I must reject, for pragmatic reasons. Libertarianism has been horribly compromised by the small government conservatives, the same one's that brought you the Battle of New Orleans.
