Word: partisans
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...TIME: So, you too are a partisan. Do you have any sympathy for the argument made by Christian activists that our culture and courts favor non-belief, and that Christians need redress to re-establish a level playing field...
...issues. Iraqis also dislike other countries meddling in their affairs. Americans worry that the sectarian violence in Iraq will kill Americans there. Iraqis have the same worry about Iraqis dying in Iraq. Both peoples care about oil. And perhaps most telling, when it comes to governments, both countries embrace partisan politics, and whether it’s America or Iraq, the electorate is always very aware of the religious affiliation of the politicians...
...politicians are paralyzed. The people have to do it for themselves!" He was getting charged up now. "Our democracy hasn't been working very well-that's my opinion. We've made a bunch of serious policy mistakes. But it's way too simple and way too partisan to blame the Bush-Cheney Administration. We've got checks and balances, an independent judiciary, a free press, a Congress-have they all failed us? Have we failed ourselves...
...Moral Majority lasted only a decade, until l989. But Falwell remained a controversial figure - and a go-to source for politicians and reporters seeking to know how the nation's growing tide of values voters would respond to various issues. Many other leaders did not care for his intensely partisan pulpiteering and kept their distance from him. The Lynchburg preacher was downright hostile to Bill Clinton, boasting to his flock in the first week after Clinton's inauguration in 1993 that he had a sex tape of the new President, but was too appalled by it to share...
...respond at some point. It would be unacceptable if a Canadian citizen wrote to the Prime Minister thoughtful letters with gifts twice a month, month after month, and there was no response," Martel says, insisting that his letters (posted on his website) are not petty or partisan. He notes that previous Conservative governments, including that of Brian Mulroney, have supported the arts. But what Martel and Harper each think is "unacceptable" may be very different. Harper, who once decided to boycott the entire parliamentary press gallery after a standoff over who got to ask what questions when, seems quite capable...