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...supply-side, over the past month information has come to light regarding flagrant drug-related corruption in the Mexican government. In a twist of irony so violent as to be nearly unbelievable, the head of Mexico's national anti-drug agency, General Jerus Gutierrez Rebollo, was arrested on drug charges earlier this month. Furthermore, through the testimony of Magdalena Ruiz Pelayo, the private secretary to Mexico's former President's father, new information has come to light about drug dealing that enused between narcotics traffickers and some of Mexico's highest ranking officials, including, not surprisingly, relatives of the former...
...public cynicism for politics, criticizing the political establishment for being hypocritical is almost trite. In the case of the Clinton administration's contradictory trade policies with Cuba and China, however, the charge of hypocrisy is warranted. While both countries are guilty of flagrant human rights violations, the prized "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) trade status has been bestowed upon the far more culpable Chinese...
Clinton overturned former president Bush's China policy to grant a nation guilty of flagrant human rights violations MFN trade status. Even if this can be excused as an attempt to introduce the Chinese to capitalism (and thereby, inevitably to coerce the fall of one of the lasting bulwarks of communism), it must still be recognized as an abandonment of the principles which Americans hold dear. Our attempt to create a "favorable investment climate" in China by "exporting democratic values" may be an effective tool for bringing China's relationship with communism to an end, but at what ideological price...
...Jews out there who don't live up to these morals. But there is no denying that these ethical principles are exactly what our Torah is all about. Just look at our prophets. Just look at our legal codes. Any Jew who is mean-spirited and cruel is in flagrant violation of the spirit and the letter of the law, and that Jew is not an Orthodox Jew by any means of classification. After all, how could one be a truly Orthodox Jew, one who loves the Torah and its Divine Author and His creations, and disregard the words...
Green, who says he's running this time because "there's too little flagrant frontal nudity and sales of crack pipes are drastically low " is the candidate who doesn't take things too seriously in a field of candidate who spend hours planning strategy sessions, postering and making speeches...