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...Politics gives young people the opportunity to make tremendous differences. I got involved because I wanted to empower the powerless, and there is no other business but politics where you can do that," Mayberry said...
Columbia poses little offensive firepower--it has scored a mere five goals in four games against powerless-houses Marist, Iona, Manhattan and Bucknell. Junior midfielder Trisha Cunnane leads the Lions with two goals...
...That's why benefit levels among states vary so dramatically. If states are no longer required to pony up their own funds as a condition of federal help, the money they do earmark for welfare will have to compete with every other program. In battles like those, the politically powerless lose, and no group has less clout than the poor. In fact, this truism has already caused welfare benefits to decline about 40% in constant dollars over the past 20 years. States strapped for cash--as all of them are--cut welfare first...
Alternatively, the Senate's proposed defense program (combined with Gingrich's desire to "eviscerate" the American role in international affairs) will come back to haunt us. In the vacuum of a powerless U.N., we will find ourselves a lonely superpower indeed, fraught with the paranoia that unregulated nuclear arsenals all over the Middle East are trained at the West, and that consequently, a new and much more dangerous arms race--which the Senate's misguided Cold War idealism has already endorsed--is the only solution left to our national security...
Looking at the profanity in contemporary movies and the violent lyrics of rap songs can tell us something about the state of our culture, but language itself has no power to influence the conditions that it informs us of. To people who advance this argument, words are as powerless as thermometers or pressure gauges. Like thermometers, they can tell us about what's going on in the world outside, but they have absolutely no power to affect what they describe...