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...This country takes exposed breasts very, very seriously." Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, on American outrage at Janet Jackson's partial nudity during the Super Bowl broadcast...
States' rights? Only if the states do what the President believes in. How else to explain the vast expansion of federal power that the Partial Birth Abortion Act entailed, limiting the rights of states to regulate abortion as they see fit? On medical marijuana, the Bush doctrine has led to federal agents' overruling state laws that tolerate the use of pot for medicinal purposes. Gay marriage? The Bush Administration is close to backing a federal constitutional amendment that would overrule any state that decided to give marriages--or even civil unions and domestic partnerships--to gays. States' rights...
...victory was partial, but it is not secure, ” he said...
This is only a partial list, but it suffices to illustrate a critical point: The Bush administration is pursuing an ambitious and far-reaching policy agenda whose repercussions will be felt for decades to come. One may try to assert that a Democratic president would pursue basically the same agenda, but a comparison between, say, the Clinton and Bush administrations—with respect to fiscal policy, foreign policy, environmental policy and a host of other issues—simply belies this notion. Remember, for example, that President Clinton raised taxes in the first year of his presidency and left...
...either before marriage or after, have lower rates of breakup and divorce than couples who took a different training class or did nothing. Also, seven studies involving about 500 couples concluded that PREP participants had less negative communication for up to five years after the course. Men are particularly partial to the method...