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Initiative 419, the ballot measure by which they did this, reads "Only marriage between a man and a woman shall be valid or recognized in Nebraska...
...Climate Change, the premiere international body of climate experts, in a draft of their Third Assessment Report set to be released early next year. The debate now revolves around two questions: How quickly will this warming take place, and what will the effects of this warming be? Both are valid scientific questions and currently the subjects of additional research, but they are not reasons for delaying action to slow global warming. Moreover, the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the United States and 185 other nations ratified, is designed to allow countries to weaken or strengthen...
...Thursday night, Palm Beach County circuit-court judge Kathleen Kroll issued an injunction that barred the county from certifying the recount results until a hearing on Nov. 14. In this initial phase, Florida law gives lower-court judges considerable power to decide if a vote is valid and, if not, to rule on remedies. The initial thing to determine is whether the confusing Palm Beach ballot was illegal in the first place. Democrats contend that it violates a provision of state election law that requires each candidate's name to appear to the left of the corresponding punch hole. Republicans...
...have seen no evidence of that. Unlike the East African governments, Yemeni officials have refused to allow the FBI to join local cops on joint searches and interviews with witnesses and suspects. Without timely, full access to all evidence, bureau officials say, they cannot embrace unilateral Yemeni findings as valid...
...figures one chooses, there is no denying that the benefits the Bush plan would give the wealthy are large in absolute dollar terms. The Bush camp justifies these cuts by arguing that the wealthy pay more taxes and therefore deserve more relief--and to some extent, this argument is valid. If the distribution of taxes across income groups were perfectly fair, the best way to cut taxes would be to preserve the distribution of burdens by reducing everyone's rates by the same share. In absolute dollar terms, most of the benefits from this change would go to the wealthy...