Word: civilization
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...unveiled incentives to persuade the Sudanese government to curb violence in its Darfur region. If Sudan addresses the humanitarian crisis and implements a 2005 agreement to end its civil war, Washington said it would consider normalizing relations. President Obama promised new sanctions should Khartoum refuse...
Judge William Wayne Justice was a hero of mine. He set the pace for so-called activist judges and in the process became the most despised man in Texas. When Wayne was appointed a federal district judge in 1968, the South was not through fighting the Civil War. The most unpopular people were those, like Wayne, who enforced desegregation in schools...
...Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, signed into law by President Obama on Oct. 28, represents both the best and the worst of the modern-day civil rights movement. Given the current legal framework, it was outrageous that crimes committed against individuals due to their sexual orientation were excluded from the roster of hate crimes. By correcting this injustice, the Shepard Act accomplished something important. However, the act also upholds and perpetuates the noxious notion that crimes ought to be weighted by the nebulous standard of “hate?...
...vote on whether to preserve gay marriage, and Ohioans will vote on whether to allow casinos in its major cities and whether to establish a board to set livestock care standards. And Texans will vote on a whole 11 issues, including whether to allow state militia to hold other civil offices...
...conflict when the major parties to that conflict have accepted the balloting and its ground rules as the basis for a solution. And that was no more the case in Afghanistan today than it was in the U.S. in 1864, when a presidential election was held during the Civil War. Nobody imagined that the electoral contest between President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan was the country's primary political battle; nor was the contest between Karzai and Abdullah the key conflict in Afghanistan. Instead, Afghanistan is in the grip of a civil war that pits a U.S.-backed...