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...Upon closer inspection, students are likely to find a remarkable congruence with their own views: stewardship of the environment, a “humble” foreign policy, humane and fair immigration laws, and respect for the sanctity of life—whether it be life threatened by political unrest in Kenya or by inhumane practices of partial-birth abortion at home. Similarly, Huckabee’s Fair Tax proposal appeals to both populist-minded liberals and spending-hawk conservatives...
...With respect to energy independence and climate change, he emphasizes the need to transition to alternative fuels. Rudy plans to systematically track the progress of climate change and energy initiatives the way he tracked crime in New York...
...With respect to health care, Rudy believes in free-market solutions, but at the same time, is willing to grant tax deductions of up to $15,000 for those who lack employer-covered health care...
Iowa's decision was not only pro-Obama, but very clearly anti-Clinton - not so much anti-Hillary, whose solid, steadfast campaign earned the respect of many Iowans, but anti restoration, anti the notion of having a former two-term President elide the Constitution by returning to the White House as a spouse, anti the petty, contentious politics that seems to follow the Clintons - much to their dismay - everywhere they go. (Except, perhaps, the corridors of the Senate, which may ultimately prove to be Senator Clinton's most natural home...
...Pakistani leaders, for their part, insist they never get the respect that is their due. The military has lost hundreds of soldiers battling extremists along the Afghanistan border. But terrorist groups continue to thrive in the lawless tribal areas; Musharraf says they are being protected by sympathetic locals in terrain that is impossible to police. Many Pakistanis - and some U.S. officials - believe Musharraf has been indulging in the most dangerous form of triangulation, balancing U.S. interests with Islamist sympathies to keep himself in power. "Musharraf uses the threat of the extremists to prove his utility and indispensability to the Western...