That,of course,couldn't be done,because those voters have political power. This is really a disgrace. The new Jim Crow,enforced not with burning crosses but with fountain pens,to paraphrase Woody Guthrie.Mitt Might Want to Repeal Obamacare,but He Can't SAUL LOEB/AFP/GettyImagesKevin Drum,Andrew Sullivan,and Michael Tomasky have expressed their emphatic unconvincedness by my Mitt Romney endorsement.Fortunately,none of them live in swing states,so at least I haven't done any harm.I do want to clear up one false impression,though,caused by my failure to express myself clearly enough.I wrote:I don't want to see Obamacare repealed. I don't believe it will be,not even if the Republicans retake the Senate,which I don't expect either.
If Labour want May's scalp, they are going to have to produce firm proof that she has personally lied to parliament, or put the nation's security at risk. As I write, I don't think they've got that.I'll post a full summary of all the main points from the hearing, and the other May related developments, shortly.3.30pm: Here is a summary of the main points from the home affairs committee hearing, and other related developments.? Brodie Clark has accused Theresa May of unfairly trashing his reputation. In a strong performance at the Commons home affairs committee, he strongly rejected suggestions that he was a rogue civil servant.Over 40 years I have built up a reputation and over two days that reputation has been destroyed and I believe that has been largely because of the contribution made by the home secretary.
Could they be made to stick in the 21st century? There is "genuine uncertainty" about how better to enforce parliament's will – to ensure "presence and candid testimony", Bercow said yesterday. "We should not simply let matters rest here." He is signalling a willingness to engage with select committee chairs – he named six, three Tory, three Labour he admires – who want to press ahead with this agenda. The Murdoch saga may soon present an opening. Or what about those City bankers? We can't get enough of Barclay Bob Diamond's cloudy world view.This is all encouraging. Parliament should be assertive in calling the powerful to account. In addition to the culture, media and sport select committee grilling James Murdoch again this week, we've had the Treasury select committee issuing a report calling for the chancellor, not the Bank of England,
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marc by marc jacobs bag, endorsed by Sir Ming Campbell MP, also a member of the Lib Dem Long Trousers Tendency, namely that politicians should be wary of either "cheering or booing" what courts do. That argument cuts both ways, of course, but we are not here to discuss mission creep by judges who couldn't get elected if their lives depended on it.On Radio 4, as I type, Lord Macdonald is being very sensible – oh damn! – and suggesting that the Sentencing Guidelines Council should meet and issue advice on how to handle this extraordinary series of events.Consistency in sentencing matters, though a judge is also reminding listeners that inconsistency has always been there. It's part of life, too – in healthcare or education we call it the postcode lottery, and those who call for more local decision-making are actually demanding more of it.
Could it be that Peter's problem with Israel is that it still not settled the status of the West Bank?But if that is the case,surely Peter knows that Israel has seen thousands of its citizens slaughtered in gruesome terror attacks ever since it granted autonomy to the Palestinian authority to control 97 percent of the Palestinian population?Could it be because Israel has yet to facilitate the creation of a Palestinian state?But then Peter is a highly educated man and he knows that after Israel withdrew fully from Gaza it led not just to rockets being fired against Israel,but to the dismantling of the democratic hopes of the Palestinian people as they experienced the theocratic oppression of Hamas and the endemic corruption of the Palestinian Authority.
"To be busy is man's only happiness," Twain wrote in a letter to his brother,and our kids keep us busy as nobody or nothing else can. They are the worthiest work we have,the "something great" of which Bellow wrote in Herzog. Their smallness brings us back to ourselves,marshals our focus,endows the future with its potential,its possibility. Those 40 parents in Newtown are less busy now,their worth immeasurably diminished; they are tethered to the tremendous lassitude of grief. For the rest of us—our future contentment depends in part on our standing up to the gun culture and declaring: We won't let you get away with this. Your right to play with and profit from mechanisms of mass murder does not exceed our right to keep our kids alive.
He needs a friend."The move makes a lot of sense. After all,it's hard to imagine that a family life as travel intensive and demanding as the Obamas' could be ideal for anyone,much less an animal whose natural social structure looks a whole lot more like the canine version of a raucous kindergarten class than the White House's insulated existence. Dogs just aren't meant to live in a bubble.Enter Sunny,a 14-month-old female Portuguese water dog and,
www.cnnhkids.com,as of Monday,Bo's official playmate. According to the White House's blog post announcing the news,Sunny was so named for her disposition,a claim that's hard to deny after watching video footage of both dogs at play on the White House's iconic lawn,tongues a-lolling.
And then to the University of Essex,where after a degree in Latin American studies and an MA in Latin American government and politics,she moved over to art history for her PhD (which I supervised).With hindsight,there is perhaps some logic here: her enjoyment of travel,her fluency in Spanish and her impatience with disciplinary or cultural boundaries of any kind laid the groundwork for her all-too-brief career as a researcher and academic. Sign up for the Guardian Today Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning.
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