Word: speeches
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...Monday Nov. 30 the ARCO Forum hosted its most heavily attended event of this year: a speech by George Soros called "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered." With over 700 people in attendance, security had to shut down the building 15 minutes into Soros' speech in order to prevent more people from packing into the overflowing room...
...Harvard speech, he said: "When success takes precedence over integrity and politics is dominated by money the political process deteriorates fueling the resentment against politics and government in general in a self-reinforcing process. The situation is even worse when we look at the world at large...
...mind a more realistic view of what would be upheld in the courts, " explains Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "Repeatedly, the courts have rejected the view that general ads violate campaign laws unless the ads explicitly use magic words like 'Elect so-and-so.'" The First Amendment right of free speech has weighed heavily upon the courts in "soft money" cases, and judges have been reluctant to stop parties and interest groups from funding general campaign ads unless they clearly stepped over the line. The vagueness of the law and the courts' reluctance to step in are why the checks...
Every American, including Barr, has full and complete freedom of associations and freedom of speech. But every American, including Judge Higginbotham, myself, and the other members of the Judiciary Committee, also has the right--indeed, the obligation--to condemn those who associate with and support racist and anti-Semitic organizations and who deem the members of these organizations "real Americans" while considering some of us less than real Americans. Barr especially is to be condemned because he willingly aided the CCC in its efforts to achieve legitimization by boasting that a member of Congress is willing to speak before...
...rally's opening speech, Steve Michael, a housing advocate in Boston, told an allegorical story about the organization's founding...