Word: repeals
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...long-awaited repeal, the Massachusetts legislature voted on Nov. 19 to lift the 200-year old ban on Sunday liquor sales. Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney is expected to sign the legislation into law, allowing immediate Sunday sales for anxiously awaiting alcohol consumers...
...fair, euphoria over the ability to buy beer Sunday should not be directed toward this most recent repeal, but rather to previous loosening of restrictions. Not only have Sunday sales been permitted within 10 miles from state borders—a measure to offset disadvantages to Massachusetts-border stores facing competition from our liquor-liberated neighbors in New Hampshire and Vermont who allow their citizens to indulge Sunday cravings—but the state has permitted liquor sales on Sundays from Thanksgiving until New Years when the state feared it would lose too much revenue to neighbors during this lucrative...
...terrible as 9/11 was, it didn't repeal the Constitution." ROSEMARY POOLER, federal appeals-court judge, considering the case of alleged "dirty bomber" and U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, whom the President designated an "enemy combatant," meaning he could be detained indefinitely and denied access to his lawyer...
...Democrats modify their positions? Easy. “Keep abortion legal…or else.” “Save the earth, or bear our wrath.” “Repeal tax cuts for the wealthy, or the streets will flow with blood...
Democrats should follow that example. They could propose renaming cabinet positions for starters, making the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Health and Human Services into the Secretaries of World Domination, Destruction, and Rugged Individualism. Force through a foreign aid bill by calling it the Social Darwinism Act, repeal Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy via the Middle Class Elimination Act. They can go about their business as usual, they just can’t sound like liberals...