Word: supporting
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...frustrated with a two-party system, why has there been so little success in coming up with another real contender? -Erika Groff, Troy, N.Y. Because we don't have a two-party system. We have a one-party system. Both parties endorse the welfare state and corporatism. Both parties support interventionism overseas. But they also write all the campaign laws. So they have made it virtually impossible to break into the monopoly. If I had run on a third-party ticket I wouldn't have been in the debates...
...support the decriminalization of marijuana? -Craig Thomas, Longview, Texas Why support the criminalization of marijuana is the better question. First, I defend it because a free society allows people to make free choices, even dumb choices. And the problems we have with the war on drugs are a thousand times worse than the problems we have with drug overusage...
...have evoked Bush to encourage bipartisan good-fellowship, but he did not actually learn about this alternative from his predecessor. In 2006, Obama co-wrote a column with Hillary Clinton for the New England Journal of Medicine in which the two, then Senators, called for grant money to support programs that encourage doctors to admit errors up front and compensate patients early and out of court. Their reasoning: open communication about mistakes helps prevent them from happening again, saving money--and lives...
...culmination of the “Say Yes to Drugs” campaign, which has been advertising its message in front of the Science Center for much of this week, came on Saturday with a benefit dance and speech in support of better global access to generic drugs...
Saturday’s events began with a speech from Dr. Matthew Craven, co-founder of Support for International Change, who focused on the importance of removing hurdles to wider production and distribution of generic drugs. Craven keyed on issues with “innovation, access[ibility] and delivery” of medicine to developing countries and argued that encouraging pharmaceutical companies to allow for the production of generic drugs was a step in the right direction in overcoming these challenges...