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Despite the 1998 Leahy Amendment, which prohibits U.S. military aid to foreign soldiers guilty of human rights abuses, the current bill drastically increases the likelihood that U.S. military aid will aid the hemisphere's worst human rights abusers. Colombia, where much of the bill's aid will go, has suffered...
Are we really to believe it when others in the same party block tobacco legislation because they feel it would create a black market in cigarettes? Or are they really concerned about a big source of campaign funds suddenly drying up? What about the lies that are told when a...
Hyde's statement of the obvious was a reality check to all but those White House aides and naively optimistic Democrats who wanted to believe that Clinton's speech could make the whole Lewinsky scandal disappear. Barney Frank, a leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, was one who scoffed...
The Oregon deaths make even some of the exemptions' predictable champions a bit queasy. Jones, of Christian Science, says he personally believes "taking care of a child is a sacred responsibility. If one form of treatment is not working, parents have an obligation to investigate other alternatives," including doctors or...
At the heart of the lawsuit was the contentionthat Yale had violated the students' first, fourthand fourteenth amendment rights by interferingwith their free exercise of religion.