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...bogus concept of neutrality (that people can be steeped in campaigns yet not care who wins) and the legitimate ideal of fairness (that people can place intellectual integrity and rigor over their rooting interests). Voting and disclosing would expose the sham of neutrality-which few believe anyway-and compel opinion and news writers alike to prove, story by story, that fairness is possible anyway. Partisans, bloggers and media critics are toxically obsessed with ferreting out reporters' preferences; treating them as shameful secrets only makes matters worse...
...remains that you've got a central government that is dysfunctional and disorganized, and that's being kind," says Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, who has been to Iraq seven times. Cole believes that the only thing that will compel Iraq's various factions to work together is the threat of U.S. withdrawal?something the Iraq Study Group proposed more than a year...
...people will vote for the candidate that serves their interests, not the candidate most likely to win.Admittedly, naysayers have a point about electability: A third-party candidate faces difficult odds in winning the next presidential election. However, a strong show of support for a particular third-party platform might compel the two major parties to incorporate elements of that platform into their own.There is a strong historical precedent for exactly this scenario. Most recently, Ross Perot’s popularity in 1992 (he won 18.9 percent of the popular vote) forced both parties to seriously address the ballooning national debt...
...thousands of judges and legislators from coast to coast struggle to breathe real-life meaning into such abstract issues as what constitutes effective counsel, what is the proper balance of authority between judge and jury, what makes a murder "especially heinous," what qualities and defects in a prisoner compel mercy...
...than strategic aims, motivated the authorization of interrogation techniques that amounted to torture. Seasoned interrogators have argued that not only do such extreme interrogation techniques harm the United States’ moral standing in the world and violate U.S. law, but they actually hamper strategic aims, as they simply compel detainees to say what they what they want their captors to hear. The U.S. National Defense Intelligence College found in a recent study that “enhanced interrogation” fails to improve the quality of information extracted from detainees...