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...Many of the Tea Party movement's gripes are common complaints about government. But let's not sugarcoat what the people are at the core of this phenomenon: ultra-nationalist, right-wing Christian, militant, antigovernment, disproportionately Southern, overwhelmingly white, prone to conspiracy theories and slanderous toward a liberal African American over offenses they silently tolerated from a white conservative. Meet the 21st century Klan. Thomas Quinn Los Angeles...
...their home countries any time soon, more and more people will decide to migrate north. The solution to the problem is not more rigid border policing, but a change of policy in the U.S. and Europe toward an equal global trading system that benefits all instead of the few. Christian von Campe, ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND...
Perhaps they should talk, instead. Five months after Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party began forming a new center-right government with Westerwelle's probusiness Free Democratic Party (FDP), the alliance that was billed as a marriage made in heaven is on the rocks. The government has been riven by infighting, bitter personal rivalries and squabbles over policy direction. The partisan bickering has grown so bad it threatens complete inertia. "The new government [has] had a catastrophic start," Gerd Langguth, author of a biography of Chancellor Merkel, tells TIME. "There's a cacophony of ideas and egos...
...spiraling medical costs. The upstart 36-year-old Health Minister Philipp Rösler (FDP) thinks he's come up with a solution to crack the problem: a flat-rate premium for health-care contributions so all Germans pay the same, regardless of income. But colleagues from the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's sister party and the third partner in the coalition, have slammed the plan, saying it is not "socially fair and not financeable...
...only deepened after his son, Bart Jr., committed suicide in May 2000, which the family blamed on Accutane, an acne medication. Until recently he lived in the infamous C Street House, a group lodging for young and upcoming religious conservative members of the House and Senators run by a Christian organization (other alums include Larry Craig, John Ensign and Mark Sanford...