Word: validated
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...Philip Melanson, professor of law at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, doesn't think this has anything to do with national security, and believes that fact could be hurting the White House's case. "While it's true that deliberations in the White House certainly have some valid claim to executive privilege, allowing the White House to be this secretive about public policy that has nothing to do with national security seems to be pushing the envelope of executive privilege...
...oppose the president’s plan because it might “entice people to come to the United States to be on welfare.” However, the legal immigrants the food stamp program would assist have all gone through the process of obtaining a valid U.S. visa and have demonstrated a willingness to work. It is wrong for the federal government to deny this helping hand to those desperately in need. American citizens or not, those living and working legally in the United States should be able to feed their families and maintain a minimum standard...
...Omen Escalating a crackdown on illegal immigrants, Malaysian officials want expanded powers to whip foreigners entering the country without valid travel documents...
...confrontation and denial seem like equally valid strategies, and the choice between them is one of personal taste. Most people mix 'n' match. But there is no question as to which approach has society's approval. Our culture celebrates aggressive victimhood. The victim--victim of almost anything--who fights back is one of the master narratives of our time, in plays and movies, on TV talk shows, in books, in politics, in lawsuits. Meanwhile, few things are more socially disapproved than inauthenticity or a refusal to face reality. In choosing confrontation, you embrace the "community" of your fellow victims--another...
...healthy. Now, with almost no objective medical change, I am officially, publicly sick. How will that change the actual effect of the disease? Without, I hope, distorting the experiment, I predict that this notion of disease as a function of attitudes about disease will turn out to be more valid than I would have suspected eight years...