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Americans can’t grant consent on legislation when they aren’t given access. When the people of the United States are denied transparency in the process of enacting legislation, the voters are denied their fundamental right to object. Obama wrote about laws being “uniform, predictable and transparent ... applying equally to the rulers and the ruled.” There is no transparency when a leader blatantly ignores the procedures of Congress that call for open debate because to do so is to his political advantage. When preferential treatment is given to unions, pharmaceutical...

Author: By Kimberly N. Meyer | Title: The Audacity of the Voters | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...that will lead from the White House all the way back to Chicago in 2012. Congress can tremble knowing the “audacity of hope” might indeed be God’s greatest gift to us, but the greatest gift the founders gave us was the right to vote. And in 2010, we are taking our country back...

Author: By Kimberly N. Meyer | Title: The Audacity of the Voters | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

Sometimes shopping six courses a day can lead to missed meals and hunger pangs during your umpteenth syllabus perusal of the day. In fact, some of you are probably hungry right now. Well, we’ve got just the solution for you! Get your daily serving via one of these food-related courses...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping Week, Day Four: Me Want Food! | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...Socioeconomic and racial components of one’s life are worthy of focus, but these are not the only areas about which critical thought would benefit students. In the instance of Community Conversations, the College places an “emphasis not on finding ‘right answers’ but on figuring out where you stand.” Crucially, this demonstrates that issues of a debatable and personal nature are, in fact, the very exemplars of the dialogue “central to a Harvard education...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: A Religious Awakening | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...used higher approval ratings to advance his agenda. Obama is governing in a more partisan era, but he can break the bonds of a divided Washington to turn his domestic agenda into a patriotic one - by pushing for energy independence, for example - rather than one side of a left-right slugfest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Obama Can Learn from Reagan | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

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