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...just as happy in the Democratic Party if it dropped its populism and class-rhetoric; their allegiance to the Republican Party runs not through their minds and hearts but through their pocketbooks. Social or “paleo-” conservatives such as myself will continue to protest the changes ripping through our society, but I expect at some point in the foreseeable future, as the pace of social change escalates and “wedge issues” become ever more salient, the tensions between conservatives will boil to the surface and the movement as a whole will...
When we were sophomores and just getting the hang of the college thing, President Bush invaded Iraq. Most of us stood in the yard again, this time in protest, wondering why we were being led into a war that would turn a vast section of the world against us. If those movies had taught us anything, it was that war is only necessary when there was a direct threat; we didn’t see how 9/11 terrorists had anything to do with the Iraqis, save the fact that they shared a religion...
...Kuwaiti parliament last week, a crowd gathered quickly, noisily, in one of those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political victory. After a nine-hour parliamentary debate, and six long years of delay, a bill granting women the right to vote and to run for public office finally passed. "Our hearts are overflowing with joy and happiness," exulted Fayza al-Awadhi, a member of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural & Social Society. Giving...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY: Mr. Chairman, with your esteemed consent I would like to start talking and then go on and on. Firstly, I have in my hand signed affidavits from various groups in protest of the President's choice...
...nightmare: a throng of rowdy activists gathers outside company buildings to demonstrate against alleged environmental and human-rights abuses. That was the scene in New York City and Chicago last month as dozens of people in white haz-mat suits converged on the offices of JPMorgan Chase to protest what they claimed was the bank's underwriting of illegal logging in Indonesia and human-rights abuses tied to a Chase-funded mining operation in Peru. Oil companies and industrial giants may be accustomed to such treatment, but not JPMorgan Chase, the second largest bank in the U.S. Two weeks later...