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Apart from, you know, all the financial catastrophes, 2008 wasn't a terrible year. We grew financially poor but politically hopeful-unless you were Rod Blagojevich or Ted Stevens, in which case federal authorities contended that pretty much the opposite was true. We weathered recessions, bailouts, Ponzi schemes and pirates; gawked at political sex scandals and bribery; and watched Britney inch her way back toward normalcy as Amy Winehouse continued her freefall into madness. As the calendar turns, this wild year's definitive soundtrack was unveiled by the awesomely named DJ Earworm, whose second annual United State of Pop video...
...wrote a memo regarding "Authority for the Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States." Jay Bybee, then chief of the Office of Legal Counsel, acknowledged in a later memo that the act generally prohibits use of the military for law enforcement purposes unless there's a constitutional or statutory reason for doing so. However, he and others came to the conclusion that even absent constitutional or statutory support, the act "does not forbid the use of military force for the military purpose of preventing and deterring terrorism within the United States...
States have actually already started to move away from requesting abstinence funds. We're down to about half of them that request funds currently. I think that they'll continue to move away unless the federal program changes. It's currently defined so that abstinence education is required to give the advantages of abstinence and the disadvantages of sex, which means that we can't teach birth control. The whole idea of abstinence education comes from this idea that if you teach birth control, that's going to cause kids to have sex. That's been tested probably over...
...myself primarily as a researcher, not as an advocate. They're free to dislike the research but they can't dispute it unless they have a specific statistical basis on which...
...President Nixon's famous "tilt" toward Pakistan, decades of U.S. support for Pakistan's military dictators and America's turning a blind eye to Pakistan's involvement in a series of terrorist activities against India have borne their fruit in the past decade. These dreadful attacks will continue unless international pressure is brought to bear on Pakistan's elected government to bring its military under control. Chuncha Mel Ramakrishna, CHERRY HILL...