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...Brant, however, ruled that while selling books is constitutionally protected, the city reserves the right to implement time, place, and manner restrictions, and identified a 50-cent peddler’s permit that would allow Kibler to continue his business. According to O’Brien, Kibler soon left the bookstand...
...Once admitted to the center, the jihadis are put through a rigorous program of religious discussion - designed to wean them from misconceptions about what the Koran does and doesn't permit - and sessions with psychologists and sociologists. Some receive vocational training to prepare them for a "normal" life. The center is guarded by Saudi police, but it doesn't look or feel anything like a prison. TIME's Scott Macleod, who visited the center in fall 2007, says it's akin to a college campus or country club, where the detainees play Ping-Pong and sip Pepsi. It could hardly...
...many more rules remain on the books. They include regulations that allow mountaintop-removal mining projects to pollute streambeds with leftover dirt, and a Bush move to begin to permit drilling for oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf. Worse, they also include a drastic weakening of the Endangered Species Act, allowing federal agencies to bypass expert advice from federal scientists on whether proposed projects would have an impact on endangered species, essentially cutting the heart out of the act. "The number of regulations where the Bush Administration succeeded far outnumbered the ones where they failed," says Walke...
...case, Jonathan Brant, dismissed the city’s complaint against Kibler because of insufficient evidence. Brant, however, ruled that while selling books is constitutionally protected, the city reserves the right to implement time, place, and manner restrictions, and identified a 50-cent peddler’s permit that would allow Kibler to continue his business. O’Brien said that Kibler soon left the book stand.O’Brien said he tried to obtain this permit, but found himself mired in the city’s bureaucracy. When the city granted his request in Sept...
...swiftly demanding greater spending for their priorities. Whatever concessions Obama made in response - there were frantic closed-door meetings to calm the Democrats down - he was probably going to have to swallow in the form of more spending anyway. Meanwhile, he indicated that he was not inclined to permit Democrats in Congress to look for ways to prosecute outgoing Bush officials over their conduct on the war or their authorization of torture. And Obama, in contrast to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is content to let the Bush tax cuts of 2001 expire in 2010 rather than repeal them. That...