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...federal money currently spent to admonish teens to practice sexual abstinence. He is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on antidrug propaganda and sending federal agents to bust pot clubs for those using medical marijuana to ease the pain of crippling diseases. Republican Senators are even trying to withhold federal funding from states that allow medical-marijuana ads on public transport. These are not unrelated measures. The President is proud of his Big Government moralism. As he put it in his first State of the Union message, "Values are important, so we have tripled funding for character education to teach...
...There was hesitation to co-sponsor this event because we did not know the details of the event,” said BSA President Olamipe Okunseinde ’04, who confirmed that the groups had exchanged e-mail. “The BSA would never withhold...getting a perspective from various ideological or political beliefs...
...issue is the Solomon Amendment, a 1996 law that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funding from universities that inhibit military recruiters’ access to students on campus. Opponents of the Solomon Amendment say the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violates Harvard’s commitment to non-discrimination...
...course, the concept of the IOP funding political protest raises thorny issues. How does a committee decide which protests are legitimate? What mode of action should be condoned? Should the IOP support students who are protesting the war in Iraq but withhold funds from students protesting against the right to have an abortion? Of course, these are difficult questions that require long and complicated deliberations. But just because these are tough questions doesn’t mean we should shy away from them. An obvious first step would be for IOP money to be limited to non-violent protest...
...because we broke the stability pact. They won the day for the same reason that a schoolyard bully gets away with stealing lunch money: the others simply aren't strong enough to stop him. So Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal voted to suspend the pact and to withhold sanctions. The duo's defiance is reminiscent of the U.S. going to war against Iraq without a U.N. mandate, isn't it? People may disagree on the relative merits of these cases - a Parisian or Berliner might point out that the stability pact has been plain bad fiscal policy, just...