Word: insists
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...take China decades to see that governments that kill at home make unreliable neighbors and threaten global stability. In the meantime a coalition of the concerned must insist that what is manifestly true of the economy is also true of human rights: in this age, there is no such thing as a purely "internal matter...
...Democrats aren’t obliged to tell both sides of the story, but what’s maddening is that the Democrats insist they are above the fray. After the Congressional elections, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proclaimed that the Democrats would reign over the “most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.” Using the Senate floor to slur your political opponents isn’t exactly ethical...
...Brown is set to meet U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Downing Street sources insist that Washington is in agreement with the rapid draw down, but some U.S. critics have questioned Britain's record in Iraq. General Jack Keane, a Pentagon envoy to Iraq, told the BBC in August that "the Brits have never had enough troops to truly protect the population...
...universities did not so regularly insist on pushing the envelope with radical and often anti-American politics, perhaps their speech and actions would not deserve careful and critical scrutiny. But, if Mr. Hunter’s legislation is a portent of things to come, perhaps this is—like so many of our own grade-school pedagogues had warned—a lesson better learned the hard...
Americans Nordhaus and Shellenberger have backgrounds in both politics and environmentalism, and they mercilessly skewer the political mistakes of the green movement. For all the public attention climate change has won, U.S. greens have so far failed to achieve national political action on the issue--and the authors insist that won't change as long as environmentalism remains wedded to what they call the "politics of limits." Mandatory emission cuts alone won't be enough to drive the kind of innovation needed to break the world of its fossil-fuel habit--and China and India will never sign...