Word: oversights
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...student reporters to thoroughly and critically provide an invaluable service to their communities: to discern and disseminate the truth. Though it might well be argued that student journalists still in high school lack the maturity or responsibility that they must have in order to run their newspapers without oversight, college students are adults in the eyes of the law and should be treated as such...
Karen Tumulty didn't speak of the elephant in the room: the Republican Party. It is bigoted, divisive and hypocritical; it is blurring the lines between church and state, abusing our Constitution, politicizing every agency, bankrupting our economy, flouting congressional oversight, abusing our troops and governing without compassion but with plenty of incompetence. The irony about not speaking about the elephant when talking about the party of the elephant is in itself ironic. Jenna Walden, SEATTLE...
...also seized on the change to Article 5 that effectively bars the legalization of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest and best organized opposition group and holder of 88 seats as independents in the current parliament. The contentious amending of Article 88 eliminates judicial supervision of elections and gives oversight authority to a new supreme elections council, thus ending what many Egyptians see as the only credible safeguard for free and fair voting...
...thought there was a lot of oversight of student groups at your high school, think again. Next month a new law will go into effect in Utah that regulates almost everything relating to student groups in public schools—how they can form, what they can discuss, and who can join. In addition to tedious bureaucratic impositions like a parental signature requirement, the law also regulates the content of student discourse by specifically barring clubs that address “human sexuality.” Such content-based regulation not only denies students a necessary forum for discussion...
...armed forces, and Article II, which bestows the title Commander-in-Chief upon the President. The U.S. strives to achieve a balance of powers—one that has commonly been interpreted to mean that the President controls authority over tactical decisions while Congress possesses strategic oversight. Barron emphasized legal precedent and history to show that it would not be unconstitutional for Congress to take a more active role in military decisions, even to the point of ordering “don’t take this hill or that hill.” He added that giving Congress this...