Word: deafness
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...reading Klein's "The Tone-Deaf Democrats," I couldn't help drawing comparisons to 1976. Then you had a largely inexperienced Democrat - Jimmy Carter - promising change and winning on the back of Republican failures. Carter, while undoubtedly well meaning, did not have a clear agenda and was not re-elected because of doubts about his competence. The 2008 race could be a case of history repeating itself. Obama is also a largely inexperienced but well-meaning candidate who promises change. His strategy might win one term in the White House, but with his stumbling over human rights and national security...
...guests of the University can request sign language interpreters in order to participate in any class or event. Professional interpreters are required to have bachelor’s and master’s degrees in addition to national certification and training. The support system that Harvard provides for the deaf was one of the deciding factors in Power’s decision to come to Harvard. “I have taken a lot of science classes as an MCB concentrator, and the fact that the interpreting services at Harvard allow me to enroll in classes with such complex terminology...
Klein is wrong about the Democrats being "tone-deaf" on national security. The problem is, nobody has yet figured out the good answer for the bad question "Are human rights more important than American national security?" The right answer is that without human rights, America cannot have national security. It is not "our freedom" that Osama bin Laden hates. It is the fact that we preserve our rights here in America but deny the same freedoms to others. Every time we infringe on human rights in an effort to bolster security, we lose both. Denying human rights has always been...
Klein called the Democrats "tone-deaf" for acting on the demands of the American people that we bring the Iraq war to a close. And he says we are "well beyond stupid," but he got most of the facts wrong about the debate over changing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Klein falsely claimed that the bills supported by Democrats in the House and Senate would require individualized warrants to wiretap calls made by foreign targets. Instead, the bills require such warrants only when the government targets Americans, something we should all agree is necessary. Klein was also flat...
Osama bin Laden's latest call for Iraqi insurgents to unite against Americans fell on deaf ears this week in Ramadi, the city that al-Qaeda leaders once declared the seat of a new Islamic caliphate and capital of the Iraqi insurgency. Rather than rise up against them, the people of Ramadi Tuesday invited U.S. forces to watch a massive parade - albeit one so tightly secured that no pedestrian traffic got close to it. The almost surreal, two-hour martial procession was led by the city's children to commemorate the martyred leader of a tribal revolt that has virtually...