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...Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Alas, for advocates of the right, the language of the amendment gets tangled up in the regulating of militias and the interpretation of commas. Now a multistate movement is trying to find more robust constitutional support in another amendment, which makes no mention of weaponry...
...ensure that hatred will never reign in the hearts of men again." But, in a highly unusual criticism of an honored guest's remarks, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, chairman of the Yad Vashem council, told Israeli television that though the speech was moving, "Something was missing. There was no mention of the Germans or the Nazis who participated in the butchery, nor a word of regret." Unlike John Paul II's speech here in 2000, Benedict also chose not to speak specifically of Christianity's role in anti-Semitism over the centuries. (See pictures of the Pope on his visit...
...seemed pained by the Pope's decision not to cite the origins of the Holocaust, neither its roots in anti-Semitism nor the place where it was launched. "This is a place where we speak of the importance of memory," Shalev told reporters after the ceremony. "To not specifically mention the perpetrators, the murderers... He missed that point." Shalev also wondered why the German-born Pope, who was an unwilling conscript into the Hitler Youth, chose to offer no reflections of his personal experience. (The Pope had condemned anti-Semitism during his remarks at Ben Gurion airport earlier Monday, when...
...mention leather seats...
...agenda. The party's new, Hooverish focus on austerity on the brink of another depression does not seem to fit the national mood, and it's shamelessly hypocritical, given the party's recent history of massive deficit spending on pork, war and prescription drugs in good times, not to mention its continuing support for deficit-exploding tax cuts in bad times...