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...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 companies...
...think in Afghanistan, as difficult as those choices were - and me sending in additional troops over the next two years was probably the toughest decision that I've made this year among a lot of very tough decisions, because it involved the lives of young men and women in uniform. We are monitoring very carefully how it's being executed. And I think that General [Stanley] McChrystal, General [David] Petraeus, [U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan] Karl Eikenberry and others are working double time to successfully implement this. I know that you've written, Joe, that there may be some questions...
...group that, in the case of the migraine study, was descended from 22 related couples, helped clarify what proportion of risk was attributable to heredity rather than environment. "What's fabulous about this study is that they were able to isolate a population so that you have a more uniform environment," notes Dr. Andrew Ahn, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) who authored an independent editorial on the Dutch study...
...without a motive, there would have been no murder. Hasan wore his radical Islamic faith and its jihadist tendencies in the same way he wore his Army uniform. He allegedly proselytized within the ranks, spoke out against the wars his Army was waging in Muslim countries and shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is great) as he gunned down his fellow soldiers. Those who served alongside Hasan find the Pentagon review wanting. "The report demonstrates that we are unwilling to identify and confront the real enemy of political Islam," says a former military colleague of Hasan, speaking privately because he was ordered...
Although a number of distance runners continued to rest, those who did don the Harvard uniform this weekend performed well against the biggest field that the Crimson will face all season. Of the over 525 entries, six resulted in Harvard victories, three on the men’s side and three for the women...