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...just that candidates are allowed to launch unfounded attacks against their opponents or make false claims about their own records. Broadcasters are actually obligated to run their ads, even those known to be false. Under the Federal Communications Act, a station can have a blanket policy of refusing all ads from all candidates. But they cannot single out and decline to air a particular commercial whose content they know...
...going to vote for Obama. I’m really afraid of the anti-science movement in our country. People pick what issues are important for them, and for some people it’s things like gay marriage or abortion. I hate to say blanket statements about liberals or conservatives, but I wish that people who were so fanatical about abortion would apply their same principles to people who are already alive in the world. Sarah Palin is a creationist and that’s frightening because if we allow that type of a person...
...that doesn't mean you need TMZ.com to boost your morale. Gabriel is the first to acknowledge that her results are not a blanket endorsement of celebrity worship for mental stability. A little can be good, but a lot can become harmful - as stalking and more obsessive behaviors prove. Recent research has even found that celebrity worship can decrease a person's self-esteem because the endless admiration and yearning for a life and lifestyle that are out of reach may end up cementing one's feelings of isolation and inadequacy. Studies conducted in Britain found a range of celebrity...
Give Beijing A Chance Simon Elegant's article on the eve of one of China's greatest moments - "An Olympic-Sized Security Blanket" - misrepresented the mood in Beijing as the Games got under way [Aug. 18]. Though ordinary life for some residents has been disrupted, most of them are proud of the fact that the Olympic Games are finally being hosted here in their home city and hope that the event will be remembered as one of the most successful and safe in history. I can imagine foreigners reading this piece and fearing our capital as an intimidating hellhole. This...
...with other countries around the world hosting U.S. forces. But five years of war and occupation have left many Iraqi leaders reluctant to accept what the U.S. considers standard practice for U.S. forces overseas: immunity from prosecution in foreign courts. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki himself suggested that blanket U.S. military immunity in Iraq was not in line with Iraqi visions for a new agreement governing the American military presence in the country, making the issue perhaps the single biggest stumbling block in the ongoing negotiations...