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...explain this outcome while avoiding criticizing the democratic process itself. It seems to me that there needs to be less uncritical respect for the democratic process and more understanding of its dangers and shortcomings. Since I have not seen any convincing non-religious evidence that gay marriage will destroy our society, perhaps we should consider that these bans on gay marriage are an example of “a number of citizens...who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens...” In other words, that...
...avoid getting caught in house-to-house fighting, U.S. forces sealed off some areas where insurgents were believed to be hiding, leaving them for later search-and-destroy missions...
Shortly after 7 p.m. on Monday night, Alpha Company paved the road into Fallujah. Engineers used a minesweeper to shoot forward 100-yd. lines of C-4 explosive to destroy or trigger any booby traps in its path. Battle tanks followed a channel marked in chemical lights, taking positions on the railway berm to cover 3rd Platoon's advance to Objective Lion, a hunk of two- and three-story buildings known to be insurgent strong points. It would be the foothold for the entire Task Force's advance...
...artificiality. Sounds unpredictably enter and exit the space, and an extremely creepy alien groaning/breathing noise pervades the background of the piece’s midsection. In the last third of the piece, deep resonant drums start beating, the background sounds cut out and frighteningly arrhythmic drums and cymbals destroy the mood that had been so laboriously created; again Battles break the rules of spatial resonance created by the background humming and air-sounds, which are punctuated with obvious computer effects and a wall of noise disconcertingly cutting in and out. These violations of spatial registers shake up the listener...
...President was off mountain biking, leaving a political odd couple sharing a cup of coffee on the cool limestone porch of the Texas ranch. One was overnight guest John McCain, and the other was Bush's political adviser Karl Rove, the man who helped destroy McCain four years earlier in the South Carolina primary. Lately the Senator had been openly referring to Rove as "staff scum," a term of endearment he often uses for his own aides. Now the two discussed the political map and the previous day's events in Florida. Flying with Bush to Pensacola, McCain had told...