An Ontario field study funded by Bayer appears to back up the real life evidence challenging the activist doomsday scenario.

FORBES: Connect

We are going to be pursuing those kinds of efficiencies in the defense budget even while making sure that our troops in the field are adequately funded.

WHITEHOUSE: Detailing the FY2011 Budget

The risk is particularly high if the Democrats field a well-known and well-funded challenger like Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

CNN: Lautenberg: The last 'swamp dog'

Mr Field and the last Conservative government both favoured funded pensions (ie, paid for out of investments rather than current taxation).

ECONOMIST: From richer to poorer

It has so far successfully fought off an idea promoted by Frank Field, the minister for social security, that half the budget of the National Health Service should be funded by a health tax.

ECONOMIST: Taxation