Word: ridding
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...stop at the water's edge, political decisions sure don't stop there. And their repercussions don't tap on the brakes when making the return trip, as the coffins starkly show. The message of the ad is simple and, in a democracy at war, legitimate: Let's get rid of the guys who signed off on this. (The fact that some of the guys who signed off were Democrats is an inconvenient subtlety the ad elides.) You can disagree with its argument, but to have that argument in an election--with plain words and, yes, images--is right...
...immunity, but the consensus among constitutional scholars is that they do, so Cheney lucks out. As behind-the-scenes guys, Rove and Libby probably get only qualified immunity, which means they?ll have to show that the complaint fails to state any legal claims, if they want to get rid of it quickly...
Thanks to spiking metal prices caused by demand from China and India and a couple of smelting-factory shutdowns in Mexico you may not have heard about, the zinc inside a penny now costs .83 of a cent. (The U.S. got rid of almost all the expensive copper in 1982.) Add distribution and production costs, and you're up to 1.3 cents to make a penny, which freaks people out. That's because the U.S. Mint claims to make a profit, called seigniorage, on the difference between the cost of producing currency and its value. That, however, is stupid. Printing...
...head and that an al-Qaeda informant pointed the way to him. Al-Zarqawi's death may have been, as you stated, "a desperately needed break for the White House and the U.S. military." Yet that break was bought and paid for, and money talks. The world is rid of an evil, warped mind, but let's tell it like it is. Wilda Fonseca Avon, Massachusetts, U.S. I found the cover image of al-Zarqawi's face covered by a red X extremely eye-catching but also troubling, as it reminded me of the May 7, 1945, issue of Time...
...head and that an al-Qaeda informant pointed the way to him. Al-Zarqawi's death may have been, as you stated, "a desperately needed break for the White House and the U.S. military." Yet that break was bought and paid for, and money talks. The world is rid of an evil, warped mind, but let's tell it like...