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...RELIGION NOTE...
...everyone will buy it. You either have a commitment to universal coverage--as Romney did in Massachusetts and Schwarzenegger does in California--or you don't. Rudy doesn't. (No wonder he won't say how many of the 45 million uninsured his health-care tax cut would cover.) Note that this question lets Republicans embrace universal coverage without supporting a Canadian- or British-style single-payer system. Michael Moore aside, there are different ways to skin the cat here. Liberals should insist on Republicans who explicitly share their goal; how we get there can be negotiated...
...refuseniks", as the Israeli press calls them, also have political support among the Israeli right wing. Two legislators from the religious-right parties issued a joint note of congratulations to the soldiers for "refusing to be the executioners of a blatantly immoral decision...
Still, critics wonder if the measure goes far enough--for example, the original bill required that bundles of $5,000 or more be disclosed, but that threshold was raised in the final bill, to $15,000. And Republicans, while mostly in support of the measure, were quick to wryly note that the bill looked awfully similar to one they proposed last year and Democrats decried as too weak...
...Skeptics, however, note that Libya's new profile is a product of the same thuggish authoritarian power structure that has ruled the country since 1969. And they suggest that the principles on which Libya is resolving problems sometimes amount to extortion. For example, the release of the Bulgarians - spurious though their convictions may have been - saw still undisclosed donor nations acting on behalf of the E.U. shell out $460 million in damages for the Libyan victims of HIV infection, and also landed Tripoli diplomatic and commercial rewards that include the construction of a nuclear power plant. Even worse, French daily...