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Last week, Republicans?? blind faith in the free market once again trumped a valuable measure to save elderly Americans money on medicine. Despite a similar bill having passed in the House of Representatives, 42 Republican senators blocked by filibuster a proposal to modify a provision of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. That provision forbade the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate with drug companies and healthcare providers on behalf of the 43 million Americans who rely on Medicare. The current system splinters the bargaining power of America’s elderly, creating private middlemen...
...methodically track and stop weapons proliferation, and to his credit, he avoids oversimplification and instead offers thorough analyses of individual situations. His criticisms lack the liberal slant you would expect in such a work. Shapiro lambastes both Democrats and Republicans: Democrats for their lack of a standpoint and Republicans??more specifically neocons—for ignoring tried and true public policy in favor of more imperialist maneuvers. This book is a good read if you want to find out what America should have done in the recent past, or if you need to strengthen your anti-Bush arguments...
...many Jews, it is difficult to respond to the likes of Finkelstein and Weiss, because of the core Jewish belief in pluralism and freedom of expression; among a sampling of Jews, you are likely to find the very religious, the completely secular, Zionists, anti-Zionists, Democrats, and Republicans??all of whom cite something distinctly "Jewish" about their point of view. Finkelstein and Weiss take advantage of this pluralism in order to further their political goals...
Such was the seemingly innocent rationale behind the NYU College Republicans?? latest piece of political activism: a hunt through Washington Square Park for a student posing as an illegal immigrant. The student-actor bore a name tag identifying his undocumented status, while his pursuers sported badges emblazoned with “INS,” standing for the now defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...ethnicity is a prerequisite. He added that reaction to the Caucasian-only scholarship has been “mostly positive,” and that he has received dozens of e-mails supporting the plan. Since the story was first reported in the B.U. Daily Free Press yesterday, the Republicans?? move has garnered attention nationally—including from blogger Matt Drudge and FOX News’ Brit Hume. But in interviews last night, several Harvard students said that the Caucasian-only scholarship was divisive. “An act such as this is probably not going...