Word: argumentive
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...would be suicidal. To conservatives who don't love Giuliani but hate Hillary Clinton, the message is very simple: Don't bother swallowing your principles to stop Clinton because if enough pro-lifers shift to a third party, Rudy loses anyway. The purists are also making a pragmatic argument: If your conscience doesn't guide you, how about self-interest? Take abortion off the table, warns Richard Land, the Southern Baptists' political point man, and "what you do is give the Democrats a license to go hunting for Evangelical votes on other things they care about--on climate change, economic...
...spokeswoman Carol Thompson said last week that the board appealed in order to “maintain fairness for all examinees and the integrity of the test.” Gary S. Katzmann, the judge who awarded Currier the break time last week, rejected the board’s argument and cited the potential for pain or medical injury from infection or breast engorgement if Currier were not given extra break time. “Such physical pain constitutes an unfair burden on the mental energies required for this examination,” he wrote in last week?...
...recent resolution labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) a “foreign terrorist organization.” Supposedly, Iran’s longstanding support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and its current support for Iraqi insurgents justifies the “T” word. But this argument has many problems, including inaccuracy and meaninglessness...
...this is more than just an argument over semantics. Under Executive Order 13224, the U.S. government can disrupt financial assets of any terrorist organization. Conducting such acts against a sovereign state is essentially an act of war. Labeling the IRG in such a way is potentially tantamount to imposing clandestine unilateral sanctions on Iran using a legal loophole...
...opposition insists that the heirs will be able to keep the castle provided that the agreement is executed in a proper fashion. "Romania does not want to to take back the castle, says Dumitru Puchianu from the center-right Democratic party. "If the royal house has a strong, solid argument they will get it back...