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...special three-judge panel struck down several key provisions of the landmark Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act. The act, popularly known as McCain-Feingold, closes loopholes in existing laws that allow wealthy special interest groups to spend unlimited sums of money on political candidates. McCain-Feingold is an important step towards a more democratic political process, where the overwhelming influence of special interest money is not allowed to drown out the voices of voters. The Supreme Court should overturn the panel’s wrongheaded ruling...
Bush has united his party by employing a strategy that Grover Norquist, a White House ally and the president of Americans for Tax Reform, describes as "delivering on first-tier issues." For the fiercely antitax crowd, Bush supplied his $1.1 trillion tax cut in 2001. For those in the party who obsess over judicial nominations, this Bush has not disappointed as his father did. Bush picks nominees considered ideologically sound and understands the political value of fighting for those, like Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen, labeled ultraconservative by Democrats. By sticking with his core supporters on the issues they care...
...they speak to foreign journalists--are voicing doubts about that figure. A doctor at the Shanghai Contagious Diseases Hospital told TIME that there were more than 30 suspected cases checked into his hospital alone. In a press conference last Friday, visiting WHO experts said Shanghai had agreed to reform its accounting methods to international norms, which will mean a "substantial increase" in the city's suspected caseload...
...forget foreign bonds and stocks, in which most Americans are underinvested. Many foreign countries have been privatizing state-supported firms and reducing regulations and bureaucracy (and corruption), moves that will ultimately benefit investors. Brazil and Argentina have potentially powerful economies, deeply troubled but on a road to reform, notes economist Mark Zandi of Economy.com And a U.S. dollar that appears to be headed lower in the next few years could provide a nice tailwind as your foreign investments are translated back into greenbacks...
...social-club image, some say, helped undermine her efforts to reform the council and plan ambitious events...