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...Launching A Human-Rights Offensive The North Korean regime's disposition to starve its own people is just the flip side of its disposition to play nuclear shakedown abroad. Look for a new push on North Korean human rights next year. The U.S. will soon appoint a special envoy for the issue, under the new North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004. And the European Union may want to cooperate with Washington on this one, given that Pyongyang is the world's worst violator. The self-described human-rights champions who run South Korea these days will be shamefully AWOL...
...IMUS Radio Talk-Show host Appoint Senator Kerry ambassador to France...
...Appoint Senator Kerry ambassador to France." DON IMUS, radio talkmeister, on what advice he would give President Bush for his second term...
...victory in this close election can be explained by the one in five voters who said that moral values were the most important issue driving their vote—four out of five of them backed Bush. The fact that the next president would have a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, and the fact that gay marriage was on the ballot in states such Ohio helped drive these voters to the polls, potentially swinging the election in Bush’s favor...
...entirely clear how Bush intends to change the tax code, as he did not talk about this extensively on the campaign trail. According to his advisers, he will appoint a bipartisan commission by the end of the year to explore ideas such as a single-rate flat tax and a national sales tax. It is worrisome that one of the first issues that Bush has began talking about after winning the election is one to which he gave so little attention during his campaign...