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...China relations. In contrast to Gates' testy visit, Japanese officials rolled out the red carpet in December in Tokyo for Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who was granted an audience with Japan's Emperor, at Hatoyama's request. His overtures to China are part of a larger foreign policy agenda to integrate Japan more closely into a growing Asia. He advocates the formation of an East Asian community along the lines of Europe's, with a common regional currency like the euro. Such plans have led some in Washington to worry that Hatoyama believes Japan's future rests with...
Next up on the agenda will be hiring an agent...
...abolitionists the presidency decades before the Civil War. In 1912, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene Debs created a jumbled electoral confusion and allowed Woodrow Wilson to waltz to the presidency despite the fact that Taft and Roosevelt combined had won far more votes for a more conservative agenda...
...success. A voiceless mentally ill population is exploited in America. With nigh zero mention of mental illness in the current health care debate because mental health issues are the elephant in the room when discussing health care, the voiceless are being pushed aside for big interests to see their agenda through the health reform bill. We can see similar practices on a smaller scale at Harvard...
...past, appeals to the pocketbook and concerns over Middle Eastern alliances have not always stirred the same kind of passions that are sparked by talk of late-term abortions and gay marriage. But something about Barack Obama and his economic and security policies (not to mention his style and agenda) seem to inflame the American right in a way that equals - and perhaps exceeds - the ire inspired by Reagan and even George W. Bush for the left...