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More jobs may be on the way. On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a forum at Pace University in New York City, predicted that many more Americans would see the effects of the $787 billion Recovery Act in the next three months than had seen them in the past three. "People are at work in every state in the nation that would not be at work if not for the act," said Biden. "But the speed of job growth will really pick up in the next few months...
...Central to our founding constitutional vision was the public jury trial—in a proceeding that was fully open to the public, in which the jury expressed the conscience of the community. The founders contemplated that the jury would act as a source of wisdom and moderation, as the ultimate judge of fact and law; it was to act as a check in our constitutional system of checks and balances on the otherwise unchecked discretionary prosecutorial power of the executive. No citizen could have his liberty taken away without the unanimous consent of an empowered, powerful jury...
...heard that the Medical School could not act independently,” Tian says...
...protest groups usually do - within the law, by peaceful means, working for legislative change on the one hand and cultural change on the other. But there is an uncomfortable consistency in the logic of the extremists: If abortion providers are mass child killers and the law refuses to act, the vigilante may see himself as the lone defender of justice - as vigilantes usually do. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who in 1991 was arrested while protesting in front of Tiller's office, released a statement that began, "Dr. Tiller was a mass murderer ... he left this life with his hands...
...website for Operation Rescue, which included a "Tiller Watch" feature, a man identifying himself as Scott Roeder asked in 2007 whether anyone had considered going to Tiller's church to ask the doctor about his work. (Operation Rescue's president has denounced the crime, calling it a "cowardly act." The group's founder, Randall Terry, issued a statement calling Tiller a "mass murderer" whose "hands were covered with blood.") Read "Right-Wing Reactions to Tiller Murder...