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That being said, Huntington’s arguments, while surely controversial, are not at all xenophobic, though the Foreign Policy cover byline certainly doesn’t help dispel this notion. It reads: “Samuel Huntington on how Hispanic immigrants threaten America’s identity, values, and way of life.” This is misleading. It should instead read: “Samuel Huntington on how large numbers of unassimilated Hispanic immigrants who profess dual nationalities and thus dual loyalties to Mexico and the U.S. threaten America’s identity, values, and way of life...
...persuade the Sudanese government to call off its deadly campaign. Regardless, Power asserts that ten thousand peacekeepers are needed in Darfur to secure the situation. Khartoum would first have to agree to such a mission, a concession that would require additional U.S. leverage. For example, we could threaten to extend sanctions that we are already imposing on Sudan as punishment for their terrorist connections...
...have been palpable on Capitol Hill since Bush’s two recent recess appointments of circuit-court judges. Democrats were further outraged when the president refused to appoint more than a dozen Democrats to government boards and commissions, inspiring Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to threaten the administration with an unequivocal stall of all judicial nominations. “There has to be a reciprocal treatment of nominees,” Daschle said in a March statement. “It will be very, very difficult for us to move forward on nominations in the future...
...about its alliance with the religious right. For two years the King of All Media galvanized a considerable audience of political dummies in the president’s support. But their differences on fundamental peacetime social issues like abortion, gay marriage and, most powerfully, freedom of expression now threaten to loosen the hold Bush has likely had on Stern’s audience, made up of the same ordinary people whom the administration has always sought to attract...
...Every few years, threaten to take away students’ most beloved traditions and replace them with convoluted proposals to make administrators’ lives easier. That’s a sure-fire way to build trust and loyalty in an institution...