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...male children are being murdered because the Janjaweed believe they could be future enemies. How dare my country ignore this grim situation! Why is genocide allowed in this day and age? Is it because it is happening on a continent that is mostly black? How can we turn a blind eye to this African Holocaust? You reported that Secretary of State Colin Powell, in congressional testimony, stated his conclusion "that genocide has been committed in Darfur, and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility, and that genocide may still be occurring." But in this election year, neither...
...understand how anyone can vote for that idiot,” I challenge them to offer a clear argument, and they often seem bewildered that someone would even ask. When I press, the student loosely strings together a series of standardized talking points. A form of blind liberalism has taken over our campuses, and it is massacring any form of intellectual diversity. Rather than assume their place in the (perhaps mythical) intellectual elite, students prefer to stick to pithy turns of phrase without substance or reason...
...nuclear-weapons monopoly of what had once been the Big Five but now looks more like the Big Eight (or Nine, if North Korea's claims are to be believed). Tehran also likes to draw Israel into the equation, accusing the West of a double standard for turning a blind eye to the Jewish State's nuclear capability. Politically and diplomatically, Iran may well feel it has substantial leeway in which to play hardball...
...vitro-fertilization (IVF) procedures. President Bush has restricted federal funding to research on cell lines which were derived prior to August 2001; in the President’s words, “where the life and death decision has already been made.” This decision turns a blind eye to the practical reality of IVF procedures, in which left over embryos are discarded every day as part of standard protocols. Thus, if the President is opposed to allowing ‘life and death’ decisions to be so made, he should close down IVF clinics...
...mail arrived recently in the company's success-story In box from a man who said that at 70, he was taking off on a cross-country honeymoon with a new sweetheart. "I know some seniors are reluctant to date on the Web," he wrote. "But if a legally blind, bald, one-legged man can find love online, anyone...