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That Gingrich used tax-exempt donations to underwrite his college course called Renewing American Civilization, which he told donors would promote the Republican cause. Federal law prohibits use of tax-exempt contributions for partisan political activities...
Gingrich has been criticized more for misleading Congress than for the underlying questionable use of tax-exempt funds. And his blame-the-lawyer strategy has already run into trouble. His attorney, Jan Baran, said last month that Gingrich personally reviewed all statements to the committee. And Baran announced that he would no longer represent Gingrich before...
...according to Professor of Law Janet Halley, FAIR’s argument could conceivably undermine, for example, the high court’s 1983 decision in Bob Jones University v. U.S., which held that the federal government could deny tax-exempt status to a South Carolina college that prohibits interracial dating...
...last time Israel allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect its nukes? Why hasn’t Israel signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Is the writer simply ignorant, or is he knowingly dissembling Israel’s significant involvement with illicit weapons of mass destruction? Is Israel exempt from the writer’s criticism because of its “shared values” with America (which happens to be the only country in the world to ever use nuclear weapons)? How about Pakistan and its infamous Abdul Qadeer Khan? Are they exempt from this writer?...
...emerge from this mess. We have grown accustomed to best-case scenarios in the U.S.; we have come to assume that we will always have electricity and fresh water and an endless pipeline of goods and services. We assume that we can always control our fate, that we are exempt from chaos, and that governance is a necessary evil rather than an essential good, the ultimate civilized defense against the rudeness of nature...