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WHAT POLITICAL IDEAS ARE YOU PUSHING NOW? If you look at science, technology and entrepreneurship, the 21st century ought to be a century of more choices, greater quality and lower cost. I'm trying to take this very simple model and teach companies how to apply it and governments how to change to encourage...
YOUR HALF SISTER, CANDACE, IS GAY. ROSIE O'DONNELL, WHO HAS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET, SAYS GAYS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO ADOPT CHILDREN. SHOULD THEY? There are a lot of practical relationships that we ought to find a way to accommodate. If your partner ends up in the hospital, there ought to be some ability to visit that partner. But I'm not in favor of creating the notion of gay marriage or gay adoption...
...same reason, the University ought to give close scrutiny to any research done under its auspices. It was troubling last week to hear that a genetics study recently undertaken by a Harvard School of Public Health researcher in rural China did not properly inform the subjects of their rights. It was even more disturbing that a federal agency concluded that the School of Public Health’s internal review board failed to provide “substantive and meaningful” oversight of a project for which the University received research money...
Finally, Steorts ought not complain about the number of judicial vacancies—during the Republican majority in the senate, judicial vacancies on the circuit courts grew by 250 percent. Steorts also claims to be “outraged” at the decision not to send Pickering’s nomination to the Senate floor after it was rejected by the Judiciary Committee. Yet the Senate has never done this for a district or circuit court nominee. While Senate leaders agreed to give floor consideration to all Supreme Court nominees, they refused to do this for district and circuit...
...merit a circuit court appointment because of his questionable commitment to civil rights. This process was anything but “anti-democratic,” and it was far and away better treatment than Senate Republicans gave to Clinton’s nominees. Perhaps Steorts ought to pay closer attention to his admonition for law students about writing juvenescent opinions, lest he be “clobbered over the head” with them...