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Bush and Karl Rove thrive on this status quo, which is all the more reason for Democrats to defend the politics of truth. Maybe congressional Democrats can’t stop Bush’s bills, or even his loony judges, but when he tries to obscure, twist or ignore the facts to push his agenda, the Democrats can and must call...
...declare independence or have it written into a new constitution. That's not just campaign rhetoric. Though it is Taipei's main backer, Washington is currently enjoying excellent relations with Beijing and has made it plain to Chen that it will not tolerate any change in the status quo between Taiwan and China. Chen is "mobilizing his electoral base by appealing to fundamentalists," says Emile Sheng, associate professor of political science at Taipei's Soochow University, yet also "speaking to the Americans...
Every year, people treat the council presidency as if it had been decided long before anyone declared candidacy. Council leaders groom future presidents and create an aura of invincibility that frightens challengers. The “next guy” gets anointed by the council status quo and a bunch of student group leaders fall all over themselves to kiss butt in the hopes of currying enough favor to make their grant processes run smoothly in the future. We are at Harvard, so tailgate behavior notwithstanding, I assume that we are pretty intelligent people. We should not have council presidents...
...misunderestimate" the temperament of both Bush and the U.S. This is not a President who dreams of leaving behind a few new treaties as his political legacy; he thinks in more simple terms of making a dangerous world safer for America and its friends. The "six-party talks" status quo?in which North Korea races furiously ahead in its quest for a nuclear arsenal while its neighbors China, Japan, Russia and South Korea prepare for the latest round of fruitless dialogue about "denuclearization"?manifestly does not make anyone safer. With a President who views his re-election as a broad...
...West believes that such questioning will empower humans to overcome the oppressive status quo they see in society. He says that blacks have historically been forced to do this in the face of continual oppression, but that today all Americans have succumbed to an insidious nihilism that has allowed them to become permissive of tyranny and oppression in their midst...