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This past Saturday, Congress’s best chance to enact considerable climate legislation anytime soon received a devastating blow. Citing his concern over Democrats’ focus on immigration reform, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham withdrew his support for a climate-change bill that was supposed to be announced on Monday. Although it is certainly Sen. Graham’s right to be upset over the Democrats' decision to also begin discussions on a new immigration bill, choosing to pull support, especially when the bill was so close to being formally introduced and stood a good chance of passing...
...Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women," Foster said, adding that whether women fear being fired, expelled from school, or abandoned by their partners, their common concern is facing pregnancy alone...
Last Friday, Arizona’s Republican governor Jan K. Brewer signed into law the nation’s strictest bill on illegal immigration to date in spite of concern expressed by President Obama. Under the legislation, police may now detain individuals whom they reasonably suspect entered the United States illegally and authorities can charge immigrants with state crimes if they fail to carry proper immigration papers at any given time. In addition, it even grants citizens the right to sue their cities should they feel that the law is not being enforced strongly enough. While we understand that Arizona...
Although controversy stands out in a cursory examination of Lord’s work, a closer look reveals an inventive and nuanced thinker. Despite Lord’s concern with radicalism—in her own words, an interest in “different kinds of margins”—her work still boasts broad relevance and appeal...
...detailed report by IBISWorld stated, “Although concerns over the safety of nuclear power plants, especially relating to waste disposal, are likely to persist, rising concern over climate change is expected to improve the image of nuclear power.” This is indeed proving to be the case, with two-thirds of self-described environmentalists now declaring in favor of nuclear energy. All told, 67 percent of all Americans are now positively disposed toward constructing new nuclear power plants, with 46 percent emphatically...