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Ever since the court in 2003 struck down a Texas statute that criminalized same-sex sodomy, social conservatives have echoed Justice Antonin Scalia's lament that the court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda." But in the same decision, the court stressed that a right to...
“The presumption should be in favor of permitting study anywhere that has an acceptable education system,” he said. “The provision should be based not on the country as such but on the part of the country where the student plans to...
Business groups had mixed views about the proposed changes. While companies generally favor efforts to loosen antitrust restrictions, many fear that calls for broad reforms may arouse strong opposition. Some observers were particularly wary of the provision to relax laws to allow mergers of rival firms in distressed industries. Said...
Chalk up a win for the spying authority of the Pentagon and the Beltway's bureaucratic heavyweight, Donald Rumsfeld. House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra tells TIME he's dropping legislation that would have more formally enshrined in law the tradition that the CIA coordinates human spy operations outside the...
The bill describes the proposal as a "Clarification of role of the director of Central Intelligence Agency as head of human intelligence collection." One worry, Hoekstra says, is what kind of activity would fall in the category of "tactical intelligence for the military," which the Pentagon jealously guards. Hoekstra said...