Word: citizens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defining moment for me," says the computer consultant. "I thought, if things are going to get this crazy, I'd rather know how to use a gun than not." David regrets the passing of an Australia that, in time of war, could draw on a huge pool of citizen marksmen. "We lost that after Vietnam," he says. With it went not just skills but a cast of mind. "Given the choice," says Ian, "I would always employ a shooter over a non-shooter. A good shooter is responsible, he's careful. He thinks about what he's doing, and when...
...just got married. Her name is Svetlana. She's a Russian-born American citizen. She's proof that there's a lot more going on in this world than meets...
...Instead of sneaking in, if you want to be a U.S. citizen, do it the right way. Have Angelina Jolie adopt you." --JIMMY KIMMEL...
Made in the mid-50s, “Arkadin” intertwines narrative aspects of “Citizen Kane” and “The Third Man” to probe Cold War institutional corruption. A dying man gives a petty criminal named Van Stratten (Robert Arden) two names—Gregory Arkadin and Sophie—which he tries to use to blackmail Arkadin (played by writer/director Orson Welles), one of the world’s richest and sketchiest men. The other name, it is later revealed, is that of Arkadin’s collaborator from...
...American citizenship is not a human right. The U.S. does not have an obligation to systematically clothe, feed, and protect the citizens of other countries. (We may do so, but it is not an obligation.) What’s at stake here is civil and political rights, not economic and social rights. And civil rights presume citizenship. Its benefits—economic and social rights—cannot be systematically dispensed to those without it. The protesters, therefore, should have supported citizenship, not a citizen-less, stateless, world...