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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Senator John Cornyn should resign for co-sponsoring a resolution condemning MoveOn.org's free speech. This is the sort of fascism that is a far greater threat to Americans than terrorism. The Senate has the gall to question basic American freedoms while its members are under investigation for bribery (Ted Stevens) and sex scandals (Larry Craig and David Vitter). Dale Stevens Montgomery, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Oct. 15, 2007 | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...client O.J. Simpson. He had arrived to discover that a local lawyer was claiming to represent the former pro-football player, arrested by police after an alleged break-in at a hotel to recover memorabilia. In an interview with TIME, Galanter expresses his incredulity at the other lawyer's gall: "Is there any person on the planet who doesn't know I represent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Defends O.J. Simpson | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...provocative position and bends over in front of him while retrieving her cat. My roommate's years of practice in passing for straight before family members have clearly paid off. When he recounts the tale to me later, I am actually outraged that another woman had the gall to try seducing my pseudo-boyfriend...

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: The Boy Who Lived (With Me) | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...come to this. not only does the U.S. Vice President flout an Executive Order, but he has the unmitigated gall to tell us the branch of government to which he belongs. The President then commutes the sentence of a convicted felon who just happens to be the Vice President's former chief of staff. It is stunning to me that almost 144 years later, the words uttered by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address have been trampled and disregarded so callously by the four branches (now including Cheney's hybrid branch) of our government. Indeed, it would appear that government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Party Lines | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

...quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

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