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...TRYING TO ENACT THEIR CONTRACT with America in 100 days [Congress, April 10], Republican members of Congress exhausted their minds, frayed their tempers and strained their family relationships under the relentless prodding of the Speaker of the House. When medieval monks were subjected to an ascetic life of physical and mental strain, they suffered from hallucinations. Perhaps Republicans have come to believe that Newt Gingrich is King...
...They are under psychologica: duress. They come out just wanting to lick everyone like puppies," he says of the usually ferocious canines. "Once they sensed that they didn't find what they were looking for, they felt like they had failed their owners. [The owners] would enact phony successful rescues to try to cheer them...
Authored by Cambridge United for Smoking Prevention, the twenty-on page proposed smoking ordinance would enact the toughest smoking restrictions ever implemented in Cambridge...
...from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice Department suit was intended to send a signal to other rebel movements in California, Idaho, New Mexico and Oregon and "put to rest the idea that any county has the right to enact laws to override the Constitution...
...individual ideas of religion and justice. For that matter, my belief that abortion is usually, if not always, immoral is fiercely disputed by many people of great intelligence and high moral character-and I am not so absolutely certain I am right as to justify asking the state to enact my ideas of morality into law rather than theirs...