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...Romney is like a charlatan selling snake oil at a carnival. He accommodates his beliefs to the situation at hand for his own advancement. And if he cannot figure out that the Mormon church is a cult branch of traditional Christianity, how would he handle the complex challenges he would encounter as President and Commander in Chief? Fred M. Fariss, Virginia Beach...
...Romney is like a charlatan selling snake oil at a carnival. He accommodates his beliefs to the situation at hand for his own advancement. And if he cannot figure out that the Mormon Church is a cult branch of traditional Christianity, how would he handle the complex challenges he would encounter as President and Commander in Chief? Fred M. Fariss, VIRGINIA BEACH...
...Vice-Minister accustomed to running a branch of China's government as his own virtual fiefdom, the sentence must have come as a surprise. On Tuesday, a Beijing court handed down a death penalty for Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), after he was convicted of dereliction of duty and accepting some $850,000 in bribes, according to local media reports. But while the severity of the sentence wasn't completely unprecedented-several senior officials have been executed for corruption in recent years including a deputy minister in 2000-it was still...
Romney is like a carnival charlatan selling snake oil. He accommodates his beliefs to the situation at hand for his own advancement. And if he cannot figure out that the Mormon church is a cult branch of traditional Christianity, how would he handle the complex challenges he would encounter as President and Commander in Chief...
...Even before his Law & Order depiction of district attorney Arthur Branch, Thompson nearly always played variations on the same character - a straight-talking, tough-minded, wise Southerner - basically a version of what his supporters say is his true political self. And he is often cast as a person in power - a military official, the White House chief of staff, the head of the CIA, a Senator or even the President of the U.S. It could be called the Cary Grant approach to politics. As the legendary actor once explained his own style and success, "I pretended to be somebody...