Word: opinionizing
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...Repulblican Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to get a second opinion on how the war in Iraq is going, where does he turn? To the Pentagon, but not to the top brass this time. In an unusual closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill last week, Virginia's John Warner, joined by Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Mark Dayton of Minnesota, sat across the table from 10 military officers chosen for their experience on the battlefield rather than in the political arena. Warner rounded up the battalion commanders to get at what the military calls "ground...
...elsewhere in the nation. To abuse both his constituents and the legislature as springboards for one’s own political agenda is both irresponsible and inappropriate. The House’s decision to kill Romney’s death penalty bill was commendable but far from unexpected. Public opinion among commonwealth residents has turned increasingly against the death penalty in recent years, and nearly two-thirds of the representatives ended up voting against this callous practice. Two separate bills to reinstate the death penalty had already been rejected by the House in the past eight years—first...
...That carries no real authority with me. You have decisions that are made based on the political judgments of the justices.” Posner said that foreign law is based on different foundational documents and that justices generally choose to look abroad only to bolster their existing opinions. “Foreign judges do not have any sort of legitimacy in the American legal system,” Posner said. “And then there’s the pure opportunism of it. The Supreme Court only looks abroad to confirm its prejudices, not to challenge them...
...stop bullshitting,” but ambiguous in its intended recipient).In a few moments like these, the SFA of old reappeared, but these were only occasional bright spots in an overwhelmingly mediocre performance. Credit the band for staying true to their shtick without concern for hipster opinion, but their current approach to music is simply too boring. From a naturalistic perspective, the evening was hopeful if not fully satisfying. It confirmed the life cycle of one of the rarest breeds of mammal, the innovative indie success: creativity declines with age, but younger acts will always be there to pick...
...ginger approach to North Korean human rights issues. "I do understand that President Lincoln was quite slow in liberating the slaves in the United States," Roh said. "This was because the President, if he took the lead in this issue, he thought that America would be divided in opinion, and this would be very serious. In reality, the Civil War did take place, and because of this issue of slaves, there was a situation where the United States was in jeopardy, and because of that, he had to go through a process to ensure that the country would stay together...