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...himself responded to the allegations that he misrepresented his military service in a press conference. "On a few occasions I have misspoken about my service, and I regret that and I take full responsibility," Blumenthal said, "but I will not allow anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country...
...prerequisite of judicial warrants acts as one such safeguard. Some argue that the judiciary does not provide an adequate check on the surveillance state due to the politicization of judges. It would be risible to suggest that any judicial system is apolitical, but it is insulting to categorically impugn the judicial temperament of the many sober men and women on the bench who have made it their life’s work to interpret the complex issues of American constitutional law. Citing the politicization of the judiciary to delegitimize its judgments on one issue delegitimizes our entire judicial system, since...
...questioning his decisions. It was an office under Mousavi that coordinated a series of attacks against the U.S. in Lebanon, including an attack on the U.S. embassy. And when Khomeini died, Mousavi played an Iranian Cincinnatus, retreating from politics and living as a common man. When Khamenei tried to impugn Mousavi's revolutionary credentials after the demonstrations started, insinuating that he answers to foreign powers, Iranians put absolutely no credence in it. (See pictures of Mousavi behind the scenes...
...personal cell phones) or the effect of the nation’s recent economic collapse (stock market down three quarters, reserves down half, currency value down a third, double-digit unemployment and inflation). NATO in fact has far more power over Russia than Ms. Bryson imagines. She attempts to impugn President Saakashvili’s democratic credentials, ignoring the fact that he is besieged by a giant neighbor where even vestigial democratic politics have been totally liquidated. The fact that Georgia remains to any extent democratic in the face of this threat is a miracle owing only to Saakashvili?...
...years ago that maneuver would have been inconceivable. Yes, politicians have always tried to bring each other’s authenticity into doubt, but what Palin did during the convention was something distinct from the mere questioning of her opponent’s credibility. She did not try to impugn Obama’s credentials but rather to lay bare the artifice in his very carefully choreographed convention. In short, she tried to expose his speech as a photo-op. The term “photo-op” or rather, “photo opportunity...