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...done, we can turn to the more philosophical questions of how we vote and what our vote means. In my mind, however, the universality of Internet technology available today has pushed the country through a door that has all but shut behind us; no longer can we afford to disregard the web as a valid social and political arena. Voting in cyberspace is a logical next step for American politics...
...Without warning, and while flying in international waters, two of the planes were shot down by Cuban MiGs. These were brutal, premeditated murders committed without warning and in broad daylight. A complete disregard for the values and rights of human lives and the principles of international law and civilized societies. The four men killed in this heinous attack were volunteers of Brothers to the Rescue and committed to individual freedom, human rights and non-violence...
...perspectives. Obviously, the military should not be a testing ground for theories of social justice. When it comes to war and peace, we do not have the luxury of running controls or tweaking variables ad infinitum; if the experiment fails, men and women die. In this regard, the callous disregard for national security evinced by those who spout entitlement talk is contemptible. At the same time, the exclusive emphasis of many conservatives on unit cohesion and effectiveness is more than slightly disquieting. Developed to its logical extreme, it can lead to--indeed has led to--truly totalitarian lengths...
Aviation watchdogs have been baring their teeth in the aftermath of two high-profile crashes in 1996--ValuJet in Florida and TWA off the coast of New York. Regulators have been increasingly willing to bring criminal charges against airlines and their employees for negligence and deliberate disregard of safety guidelines. Federal prosecutors won a criminal conviction of aircraft-maintenance company SabreTech in December in connection with the hazardous material that allegedly caused the ValuJet crash, which killed 110 people. The same month, American Airlines pleaded guilty to criminal charges--and paid $8 million in fines--for illegal handling of pesticides...
...sole officer vested with the authority to interpret the constitution, Driskell ruled last Sunday that the resolution to remove Burton from office through a vote by the council alone was unconstitutional. At the behest of the resolution's proponents--which included three defeated presidential candidates--and with an amazing disregard for the explicit reading of the 1997 constitutional amendment, the council overruled Driskell...