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...with total control of our government, Republican control would mean more than just a conservative agenda for the next few years. The Republicans would be able to make broad and far-reaching changes that would last long into the future. Like a Republican New Deal, conservative legislation passed by a Republican Senate free from the threat of filibuster could permanently and profoundly alter our nation’s character for years to come. From conservative Supreme and District Court judges to conservative tax policy, little is out of the question with an unrestrained, Republican-dominated Senate...
...willingness to assist the Palestinians in setting up a vote. A White House official says the U.S. has "already conveyed our concern that the elections be facilitated by Israel." That means leaning on Sharon to open up travel in the tightly constricted territories and to make arrangements for a broad vote...
...risk for the U.S. is that, rather than make the Sunni triangle secure for democracy, the assault on Fallujah may instead inflame Sunnis and scatter insurgents across a wider area, which could scuttle hopes of broad Sunni participation in the voting. The Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni political party in Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's interim government withdrew last week, saying it could not abide the attack on Fallujah. Meanwhile, the influential Association of Muslim Scholars, a Sunni group, has called for a total boycott of the elections. The association's leader, Harith al-Dhari, told TIME...
...thirds of seniors who rely on Social Security for their main source of income. "The burden of [cutting benefits] is going to fall on lower- and middle-income households," says Mark Zandi of Economy.com Yet supporters say the dangers could be easily mitigated by allowing investments only in broad stock and bond indexes, which are relatively safe, and by limiting the size of personal savings accounts to a fraction of one's Social Security taxes--say, 2 to 4 percentage points of the 12.4% annual levy...
Vincent van Gogh's great-grandnephew is shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight on the edge of a city park. Streets fill with tens of thousands of angry protesters. Islamic schools are attacked and mosques vandalized and set ablaze--with a severed pig's head left as a calling card outside one of them. Can all that really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands? The answer is yes. Minutes after the Nov. 2 slaying of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with...