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Even worse, in its attempt to force its members into an archetype of what liberation should be, FemSex’s approach overpowers the individual instead of empowering her. Empowerment is about making your own choices, not about adhering to the FemSex agenda. I wonder how a class member who made the liberated choice to abstain from sex would be received in this group...
...Reducing interest rates on student loans has been a key point of the Democratic “100 days” agenda, since they obtained control of Congress in January...
...eager freshmen, short-lived enthusiasm for classes, and the renewed antics of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). SLAM’s unceasing demand for more—higher wages, more vacation time, and, above all, stronger unions—may resonate with the new Democratic Congress’ agenda, but unions, like any other cartel, help their members only at the cost of the general public...
...Evangelicals - especially the new generation of pastors and young people - are deserting the Religious Right in droves. The evangelical social agenda is now much broader and deeper, engaging issues like poverty and economic justice, global warming, HIV/AIDS, sex trafficking, genocide in Darfur and the ethics of the war in Iraq. Catholics are returning to their social teaching; mainline Protestants are asserting their faith more aggressively; a new generation of young black and Latino pastors are putting the focus on social justice; a Jewish renewal movement and more moderate Islam are also growing; and a whole new denomination has emerged, which...
...enough children to hold population levels steady. Europe's also aging. By 2050, over 30% of Europeans will be 65 or older, and there aren't enough young Europeans to replace their labor skills or pay for their pensions. And, if the E.U. seriously wants to achieve the Lisbon Agenda goal of becoming "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy in the world" by 2010, it will need way more highly qualified researchers than Europe's universities can turn out. The argument that immigration is to blame for the failings of multiculturalism ignores the numbers. Europe doesn't just...