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...realize this might be playing devil’s advocate. Responding to “the Patriot Act infringes on civil liberties” by saying “40,000 children die every day of malnutrition” is at best a non-sequitur and at worst dangerous and trivializing. For every injustice, there will always be something greater, and ranking them on a scale of acceptable moral outrage is nearly meaningless. Just because our standard of living is astronomically high compared to 86 percent of the world doesn’t mean that we can?...
...Washington lack backbone, it’s because a lot of Democrats in Washington lack backbone. Too often, Congressional Democrats have pulled their punches, from Bush’s plan to use taxpayer money to fund ”faith-based initiatives” to the excesses of the PATRIOT Act and the discriminatory Special Registration program for Arab-Americans...
...what you get. The party declares its stands on the issues, and its candidates had better stick to those positions or they won't get financing from the party. Politicians will always side with the majority of their party on any issue, whether it be abortion, Iraq, the Patriot Act, or raising or lowering income taxes...
...Taiwan Strait and ensure the security and stability of the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. decided to sell arms, including submarines, to help us enhance our ability to defend Taiwan. Most people forget that China has 86 submarines, many of which are sophisticated modern models. Regarding our purchasing of Patriot PAC-III antimissile systems, China accuses Taiwan of being provocative and of attempting to disturb peace across the Taiwan Strait. Most people in the world have forgotten, however, that it is China that has deployed 610 ballistic missiles along its southeastern coast targeting Taiwan and that these missiles increase...
...what you get. The party declares its stands on the issues, and its candidates had better stick to those positions or they won't get financing from the party. Politicians will always side with the majority of their party on any issue, whether it be abortion, Iraq, the Patriot Act, or raising or lowering income taxes. Gordon Levy Coarsegold...