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  • Matt Phillips of the Wall Street Journal went even further off the beam in an article that begins, "The high-priests of recession dating have spoken."

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Recession's Over. The Emergency Isn't 2010

  • Matt Phillips of the Wall Street Journal went even further off the beam in an article that begins, "The high-priests of recession dating have spoken."

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Recession's Over. The Emergency Isn't 2010

  • Fraser Nelson asks why the high-priests of climate change alarmism fear debate, and wonders if it wise for the Tories to be more angry about the public finances.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Fraser Nelson asks why the high-priests of climate change alarmism fear debate, and wonders if it wise for the Tories to be more angry about the public finances.

    The week that was 2009

  • The Tea Party has even launched a few salvos against one of their own high-priests and potential 2012 presidential candidates -- Newt Gingrich.

    Rob Diamond: Present at the Cremation: The Long, Slow Death of the GOP? 2009

  • So, though nobody gets to play Conan himself, it still looks like the makings for a fun night, warring your Aquilonian troops against the high-priests of Stygia!

    Conan the Board Game! Reis O'Brien 2008

  • The high-priests of paranoia gushed away on CNN and MSNBC (FOX still causes me to experience unwelcome mortar-firing fantasies).

    Stan Goff: Air Travel Under Orange Alert 2008

  • The problem is that even in theatres where complete dominance of the air reigned, the high-priests of Air Power were unable to secure a single objective and were unable to reconcile the massive numbers of civilian deaths wrought by simply raining ordnance from the air.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Dave 2008

  • So far, then, from the authority of the Hebrew high-priests telling in confirmation of the authority of the Roman pontiffs to interpret religion, it would rather tend to establish individual freedom of judgment.

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

  • He stood at the interface between the academic high-priests of supply-side economics and the political coalitions of the 1980s that rolled back the frontiers of the state.

    The times they are a-changin Burke's Corner 2007

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