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...atmosphere right, and you're golden. Canadians bought into the Vancouver Games in a big way, and that played a key part in their success. London's organizers applauded Vancouver's party atmosphere, while International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge reckoned that locals had "embraced the Olympic Games like no other city in the world before." (See pictures of the opening ceremony in Vancouver...
...right, but selling a European-style VAT to Americans is a bit like selling snake poison and would likely mean political suicide for any of its supporters. That said, there's no hiding the fact that the ratio of public debt to GDP is expected to balloon from...
Indeed, the reauthorization of the Patriot Act was met with overwhelming support in Congress, but this complicity is neither proof of the efficacy of the Patriot Act nor does it justify this continued infringement on a right to privacy. Similarly, the dearth of successful terrorist attacks since 9/11 is not an adequate indicator that we have been made safer by the Patriot Act—to conjecture as such is to ignore the complex matrix that defines national security...
...what the Patriot Act certainly does symbolize is the erosion of the right to privacy that the Supreme Court has ruled is implicit in a number of constitutional amendments, including the Fourth and the Fourteenth Amendments. Even without the question of the value being brought to bear, a sacrifice of freedom is not in service of either American values or the U.S. Constitution...
...perpetuity, we should combat terrorism by removing its root causes. This surely will not be an easy endeavor, and it will require both vigilance and collaboration between all branches of government and governments abroad. But it is not an impossible proposition and does not require that we forfeit our right to privacy to the federal apparatuses, whether they are legal or governmental...