Yes, WorldCom is a company in distress, and it wants to be extra-conservative with its books before it starts life over again, post-bankruptcy.
To figure out which 501(c)(4 s were actually political front groups, the IRS started singling out for extra scrutiny conservative names like "tea party" and "patriot", without also looking for corresponding liberal names like "progressive" or "rainbow".
Persuasive as this may be, the problem is liberals and conservatives have a fundamentally different outlook on wealth and power – liberals think it comes with extra responsibilities; conservatives don't think there ought to be strings attached.
The son has become what the father used to privately deride as an "extra-chromosome" conservative.
In a close race this November, a few thousand extra social conservatives at the polls could prove decisive.
Lee Atwater, the bad-boy strategist for Bush Sr. who was a mentor to Mr. Rove, aimed to keep the right happy, but he never bowed and scraped to "extra-chromosome conservatives," as he and his boss called them.
England must decide whether an extra batsman — the conservative choice — or bowler takes the place of retired all-rounder Andrew Flintoff.
It says estimates of extra revenues are conservative and take into account that businesses and individuals will change their behaviour when confronted by higher taxes.
The IRS gave extra scrutiny to conservative and progressive "social welfare" nonprofits to determine if these organizations were engaging in substantial partisan politicking contrary to law.
