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  • No other possible interpretation of such a statement is reasonable, because Lafollette says so.

    Matthew Yglesias » Social Democracy and Global Competitiveness 2010

  • Judge Sumi's restraining order prevents Secretary of State Doug Lafollette from publishing the law.

    Wisconsin Union Law Could Be on Hold for Months Douglas Belkin 2011

  • American socialists and Lafollette progressives looked more to a mixed system where government would not eliminate private capitalism but instead would heavily control it, even to the point of setting up its own key enterprises.

    Les Leopold: Where is the Progressive Agenda for the Great Recession? AWOL 2009

  • '' Tina states that as the suspect was paying, they told her she would have to pay for the dinner in her purse, '' Hawkins County Sheriff's Cpl. David Lafollette wrote in his report.

    Slow News Day 2007

  • Sorry for the populist overtones of this, but I'm a Midwesterner and son of a farmer, and I'm starting to wish for some old-fashioned, "Fighting Bob" Lafollette/Teddy Roosevelt fire and brimstone -- both Republican Progressives, as a matter of fact -- to start raining down on Washington in general, and the K-street boys and girls in particular.

    Election Central Debate Roundup 2009

  • The process is known as Initiative - similar to Referendum - something that the Republicans - Progressives like Norris and Lafollette - popularized over 100 years ago.

    Hey, New York Times! Okay if we build treehouses in Central Park? Ann Althouse 2008

  • Lafollette and TR did champion government activism.

    All Stories 2011

  • The Tennessee Highway Patrol fatality report indicates Gina K. Reneman, 49 of Lafollette was driving west in the 300 block of Old Hwy 60 at 5: 43 p.m. when her Nissan Pathfinder crossed the center line and struck a Ford Explorer.

    WVLT - Home - Headlines 2010

  • Now, stung by the Massachusetts rebuke, Obama apparently has begun his makeover with a rhetorical assault against the Court's campaign-donation decision, as if he were a sort of "Fighting Bob" Lafollette in hot pursuit of "fat cat" bankers.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • Ella Nolan, a 30-year-old hair stylist from Lafollette, TN, and

    Reality TV World: Reality TV News 2010

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