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...Defense party, Lepper is a radical populist who has been convicted of assault (the conviction was erased when he entered parliament) and is under investigation for allegedly libelous attacks on his opponents. He made his name in violent street demonstrations in the mid-1990s and has blasted free-market reforms and E.U. membership for Poland. Only this month he was criticized for declaring that he had wanted to slap a television journalist during an interview. Even so, an official from the ruling center-right Law and Justice party (pis) said it had "no alternative" but to invite Lepper into government...
...Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal calling for immigration reform. In the editorial Arnold complains that too many immigrants are sneaking into the country and becoming Governors." CONAN O'BRIEN...
...Society, a think tank affiliated with the Labour Party. "It represents an absolute failure for British republicanism," to which he is instinctively sympathetic. In fact, there's no real debate at all on the future of the monarchy in Britain. Republicans want to abolish it, so won't discuss reform. The government won't touch the subject with a barge pole. So what should be uncontroversial proposals, like an end to the ban on the heir to the throne marrying a Catholic, are never discussed. Intelligent debate about what kind of monarchy Britain should have in the 21st century...
According to Riley, the process of reform will be modeled after the process that led to the proposal shifting responsibility for social programming to an independent board. That proposal passed by a 37-0-1 margin last Sunday...
...Bush's own allies in Congress have shown themselves no more respectful. Whether or not the President really wants to see spending restrained, lawmakers have shown not the smallest inclination to do so. Social Security reform passed away, and immigration reform is on life support, and Bush's expansive view seems all but irrelevant. Bush was repudiated on the Dubai ports deal, despite the merits of his argument. Lawmakers protective of their own constitutional prerogatives are not meekly letting the White House decide which laws it is inclined to obey...