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...Bush is nothing if not tenacious. When his chief of staff Andy Card approached him in mid-October and asked whether he would consider flying into Baghdad to have Thanksgiving dinner with the troops, Bush didn't reject the idea as opportunistic or foolishly risky. As long as no one was put in harm's way, Bush told Card, he would go. And so Card and a tiny handful of other aides went to work, looking for a way to thank the troops that would also be an antidote to the mission-accomplished debacle and a rebuttal to critics...
...precisely Moore's flamboyant tactics that have made some fellow conservative Christians concerned he could damage the larger cause. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case--and some who support his overall goal but reject his methods think that is just as well. "A chief justice should understand that the rule of law requires obedience even to orders a government official disagrees with," argues Terry Eastland, a conservative Christian intellectual and publisher of the Weekly Standard. "The interesting question is why Moore disobeyed the order when resignation was a compelling alternative. After all, resignation would have served...
Drury noted that the state Department of Public Health oversees local licensing boards and can reject any issued marriage licenses as it sees...
Last month, the State Board of Education invited the charter school to submit a formal charter proposal. But last night, the school committee voiced its opposition to the creation of the school and asked the board to reject the proposal...
...testing. The College Entrance Examination Board shouldn't waste money and energy worrying high school students and their parents with the New SAT. The test, in any incarnation, is simply another item for colleges to consider. The Ivies and other elite universities will continue to use an academic index, reject students with perfect SATs and accept whomever they want to achieve their ideal, perfectly diverse freshman class. Let's stop the charade; abolish the SAT. BILL TOUMEY Long Beach...