"Progressives" in the news David Brooks has an interesting article in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine outlining a new "progressive" U.S. Republican party to replace the mess of policies Bush and the new-con's have created. He's hedges his criticisms but advocates a form of policy that seems to be very much in line with the Clinton/Gore years. It baffles me how intelligent conservatives can stick with that party. It must be the greed from the tax cuts that clouds their judgement. The second form of Progressives in the news is a new record of 23 progressive primes. Markus Frind, Paul Jobling, and Paul Underwood announced that they had discovered the first sequence consisting of 23 prime numbers in arithmetic progression. This surpasses the previous record of 22 primes in arithmetic progression, set in 1993. The new record holder starts with the prime 56,211,383,760,397 and adds 44,546,738,095,860 for each successive term in the sequence.