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...proud to be an American citizen and manage to stay fairly well informed. My views on current global affairs may be largely apolitical and often bipartisan, but I felt surprise and shock to see that President George W. Bush was missing from your list of the 100 most influential people. All things considered, I think it was a serious mistake...
...What would President Gore do? Well, on Capitol Hill in March, Citizen Gore offered his ideas. He advocates an immediate freeze on CO2 emissions and a campaign of sharp reductions-90% by 2050. To get there, he would eliminate the payroll tax and replace it with a carbon tax, so the cost of pollution is finally priced into the market. "I understand this is considered politically impossible," he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "But part of our task is to expand the limits of what's possible." He would adopt a cap-and-trade program that would allow...
...France's economic stagnation were not taint enough on his presidential record, when his presidential immunity expires in June, Citizen Chirac may well face trial on corruption charges dating from his tenure as mayor of Paris in the 1980s and early 1990s...
...Padilla took another shot. This time, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled in his favor. But in September 2005 the Fourth Circuit court of appeals decided that, American citizen or not, Padilla could be held by the military indefinitely under the congressional resolution authorizing the war in Afghanistan. His lawyers asked the Supreme Court to review the case...
...Meanwhile, the legal landscape had shifted. In June 2004, the justices had ruled that Yaser Hamdi, also an American citizen and an enemy combatant after capture in Afghanistan, could challenge his detention in court. Padilla's case seemed at least as strong (he was arrested in the U.S.), and while we can't be sure that made the difference, the government decided in November to move Padilla to civilian custody and charge him in federal court...