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...answer to the second question - should we care - that will establish us very much as creatures of our own era and its mind...
...night after he was interviewed. Through their union, police exhibited little interest in the pursuit of truth, more a blind and vociferous loyalty to a colleague in strife. Between the inquest and the trial, Hooper observed their righteous fury at a Brisbane meeting whose purpose, she writes, "was to establish that the police were the victims. This was real-life über-Australia up against insipid, politically correct, bullshit Australia. It was the cops, huddled close together, against those besieging them...
...Twain's initial approval because he believed that the U.S. was indeed selflessly bringing freedom to Cuba by helping it throw off the yoke of Spain. But the Eagle had also taken the Philippines as a possession, and by 1899 was waging war against Filipinos who were trying to establish a republic. "Why, we have got into a mess," Twain told the Chicago Tribune, "a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater." The contemporary ring of that assessment is heightened by statistics. By 1902, when Philippine independence had been pretty much squelched, more than...
...though, is that their criticisms of McCain's foreign policy positions - from his eagerness to bomb North Korea in 1993 and again in 2002 to his hawkish position on Iran and his unwavering support for the war in Iraq - often fall on deaf ears. The Obama campaign wants "to establish the idea that McCain's military bravery does not automatically make him a good Commander in Chief," says Clyde Wilcox, a political science professor at Georgetown University...
...School, says he anticipates a "period of uncertainty" as lower courts wrestle with whether the ruling can be applied to their jurisdictions. Ultimately, he says, "the answer is going to be yes, but it's going to take one big case or a series of smaller ones to establish." Randy Barnett, a professor of legal theory at Georgetown University Law Center, notes that while Scalia's opinion "telegraphs" his belief that the ruling will apply to states, "that's not what this case is about. It's about gun bans, not [gun control] regulations." Neither expects that to deter...