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China is a particularly egregious violator of Americans?? rights. John Kamm, the founder and executive director of the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation, has worked on several cases of Chinese-Americans unlawfully detained there (including that of Fong Fuming, a businessman from West Orange, N.J., who was released by Beijing just last week). Kamm writes in an e-mail that, according to his source in the U.S. embassy, “there are approximately 50 American citizens in Chinese prisons or detention centers.” In a country with no transparency in its legal system...
Phrases incorporating “God” are not a novelty among things held dear to Americans??our country has “In God We Trust” set in bold on its currency. And, as The New York Times pointed out, even the Supreme Court justices “begin their daily sessions with heads bowed as the marshal intones ‘God save the United States and this honorable court.’” But, the words “under God” were not included in the original construction...
...plundering the oil resources and people of Iraq for their own gain. The U.S. has already spent $80 billion on the war and Congress just approved another approximately $87 billion. And I can hazard a guess that Bush might have a harder time convincing the nine million unemployed Americans??or 12 million unemployed Iraqis—that those billions have been well-spent...
...Begala and Carville pointed to factually suspect examples such as “tax cuts for the rich;” in fact, middle-class working Americans received substantial tax relief under Bush’s new fiscal policies. They also accused Bush of “[handing] over Americans?? retirement benefits to the vagaries of the stock market,” however, Bush’s plan to rescue Social Security through limited privatization was dismissed outright, without analysis of stock market performance or potential safeguards against “vagaries.” Additionally, Begala...
While the contenders agreed on the necessity of rolling back the portions of the Bush tax cut targeted at the rich—accusing Bush of promulgating a “tax shift” that unfairly burdens lower and middle-class Americans??they differed on the merits of retaining parts of the plan aimed at the middle-class. Kerry defended middle-class tax breaks, joined by centrists Lieberman and Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., while Gephardt and Dean assailed keeping any part of the Bush tax plan...