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...about time Congress stood up to the NRA. The NRA has opposed gun control using the Second Amendment to the Constitution, but in almost every court case their opposition has been ruled unfounded. The judicial branch has adopted a correct and narrow interpretation of the Second Amendment which the legislative branch should echo...
These provisions not only place other companies at a disadvantage, but also create a drug-induced stupor where industries do not need to make the changes necessary to stay competitive and productive. And most importantly, the subsidies raid the public purse to benefit narrow interests. At a time when we are told that the government does not have the money to fully provide for Head Start, the Americorps, Charter Schools, and real welfare reform, a budget that authorizes a $600 million tax credit for cattle-raising is an insult to all Americans...
Lerner's vexation is the "narrow self-interest" which he believes pervades America and is the causal force behind all of our social dilemmas. It is such a mind-set, he says, that has fostered the recent burgeoning of anti-Black racism and anti-Semitism. He writes: "These kinds of sicknesses are expressions of the dominant selfishness of American society, and we do not believe they can be fully defeated without addressing the need to shift the dominant discourse from an ethos of selfishness to an ethos of caring...
With four executives, a lawyer and two academic administrators as members, the Corporation hardly cuts a wide cross-section of society. Why has Harvard, a habitual proponent of diversity, become so narrow in its focus...
Prentiss's work is significant, Feldman said, because she has performed research on electromagnetic fields. The knowledge she has gained by depositing atoms in narrow lines could have important applications in lithography, he said...