Oxymoron du Jour: Compassionate Conservatism

A thousand hundred dozen points of light. Make that a 5-watt night light. Ah, the hell with it--pull the plug.

"Ineffective" to Bushco means it didn't win them votes.

AmeriCorps Civilian Program Faces $22 Million Budget Cut

President Bush, who embraced AmeriCorps as part of his "compassionate conservative" agenda in 2001, now wants to shut down a part of the national service program that his administration has deemed "ineffective."

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