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These three ends should stand at the core of any effort to formulate effective bipartisan social policy. But the Times study, along with a thorough analysis of the laws’ unintended consequences, indicates that this legislation is not a sensible means of attaining these critical ends...
...qualified No is that the war has polarized us and precluded a bipartisan consensus developing with regard to policies that all future Administrations must grapple with in protecting us.The threat is real and it's all the more lethal because, paradoxically or not, it's driven by religion and nihilism and a civilization's very unhappy encounter with modernity. We must get beyond the venom and second-guessing and find common cause. We owe it to the men and women putting their lives at risk in order to protect us. We owe it to our children...
...ports as well as the Vancouver terminal. Washington's approval of the U.S. takeovers was "reckless, outrageous and irresponsible," Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley said last month. His counterparts in other U.S. cities with prospective Dubai- owned ports have been similarly venomous. And in the U.S. Congress, a bipartisan coalition has vowed to block the deal on the grounds that Dubai has been a way station for terrorists and nuclear smugglers...
...live in riotous times. The global and national supplies of rationality seem dangerously depleted. Two weeks ago, there was the media riot over Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident. Last week there was a bipartisan congressional riot over the Bush Administration's approval of a deal to transfer the management of six U.S. ports from a British company to one owned by the United Arab Emirates. And then there is the constant, combustible throb of Islamic unrest, most recently the intramural explosion of Iraq's Sunnis and Shi'ites, which has devastated the possibility that civil order will arrive...
...cases are settled or the burden of proof in these other states is just too high. Senator John Cullerton, the Democratic head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is expected to consider the bill later this month, said he is "philosophically in agreement with [it]." He expects that wide, bipartisan support from the House, where it passed last year with just one abstention, will carry over in the Senate. "But I need to, we all need to, look at it closely to make sure we're not just signing a law that is more symbolic than real...