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...asserted that wiping Israel off the map is “a very wise statement.” Although Silverman calls Obama’s foreign policy “more stabilizing” for Israel, this opinion fails to convey the magnitude of what is at stake. National Review columnist Anne Bayefsky best articulates this viewpoint, writing that “since the time of Hitler, civilization has never been so close to the brink of total catastrophe” in reference to a possible nuclear attack by Iran on Israel, among other threats to geopolitical stability. For children...
...Carmona’s fate seems tame compared to some of Galileo’s colleagues who were burnt at the stake for believing in heliocentrism, but we don’t live in a late-medieval theocracy. America is the daughter of the Enlightenment, the most technologically advanced country in the world, and a superpower that owes its modern strength to science more than anything else. In order to protect the security and strength of the United States and ensure that we leave our children a planet we would want to live in, it is vital that the next...
...choice for President isn't like that: your life isn't at stake, at least not directly. But people who have a disposition toward indecision have a harder time reading how much risk is really involved in any particular choice, according to Hayes. They badly want to make the right choice; they strongly fear the emotional consequences of the wrong one. Hayes says these people are "anxious and worried," but, he adds, "to some degree, that comes from their caring and wanting to get it right ... Looked at in this way, perhaps it is O.K. to be in a situation...
...afford to slow down, sit back or let up for one day, one minute, or one second in these last few days," Obama says, as he did to a crowd of 25,000 in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday. "Not now. Not when so much is at stake...
...plight of the refugees is addressed, a far more daunting challenge will face all the diplomats who are now speaking earnestly of a solution at last in eastern Congo, whose people have suffered through two wars and numerous clashes since the mid-1990s. Do all those parties with a stake in the Congo conflict - from the government, to the rebels, to the U.N. and a host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given...