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...flap underscores an emerging political trend. Since 9/11, polls have consistently shown that most Muslims do not want either an Iranian-style theocracy or a Western-style democracy. They want a blend, with clerics playing an advisory role in societies, not ruling them. As a consequence, Islamist parties are now under intense scrutiny. "Islamists, far from winning sweeping victories, are struggling to maintain even the modest gains they made earlier," says a recent survey by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In Iraq's recent elections, for example, secular parties solidly trumped the religious parties that had fared well four...
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...Illinois a laughing stock. Many Republicans in the state, who since the scandal began have been pushing a special election instead of an appointment, are calling for Burris' resignation. Senate Democrats in Washington, who already thought Burris would be a weak candidate for reelection in 2010 before this latest flap, aren't exactly rising to his defense. Even top state Democrats - including House Speaker Michael Madigan and his daughter, Attorney General Lisa Madigan - are asking for a criminal perjury investigation by the State's Attorney for Sangamon County, which covers the capital where Burris testified. Late Tuesday, after the elder...
Although he never registered, Daschle, in fact, made millions of dollars after he left government doing stuff that looks, smells and tastes a lot like lobbying - work that led to the taxes flap that forced him to apologize to his former colleagues on Monday for what he called a "completely inadvertent" mistake. And while that failure to pay more than $128,000 in back taxes and interest has briefly marred his confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), it's the ethical gray area Daschle's advisory work represents that has called into question Obama's promise...
...often the case whenever abortion or birth control is the topic, the debate has generated much heat and very little light. With that in mind, let's try to separate fact from fiction on the family-planning flap...