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Somewhat related to this subject of conservative planners , some might have heard of a recent book by Rod Dreher called " Crunchy Cons " ( crunchy as in granola ) . '' Citing U.S. General Accounting Office data from his analysis of the 13-county metro area 's housing , Feldman called vouchers cheaper , with total per-unit costs for housing production programs 32 to 59 percent higher in the first year and 12 to 27 percent higher over 30 years . That the United States is , or has , an Empire remains a brute fact which will not be altered by appealing to what John Randolph of Roanoke called " parchment guarantees . The State Capital Budget allocated $ 13.1 million for the Washington State University and PNNL jointly promoted Bioproducts , Sciences , and Engineering Laboratory — a facility Governor Gregoire calls , " One of the wisest investments we can make in Washington state . The arbutus , with its fruit , its pendent flowers , and rich glossy foliage , is perhaps the most beautiful of all the hardier evergreen shrubs ; but the bark of it is rugged , and the leaves , which like those of the rose , are sawed at the edges , have those edges pointed upwards , and clustering in spikes ; and it may possibly be from that circumstance , and from the boughs having the same upright tendency , that Virgil calls it arbutus horrida , or , as it stands in some manuscripts , horrens .