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...poll revealed that excluding terrorism and the war in Iraq, healthcare and education are the most “extremely important” issues to Americans. Yet at the Republican candidate debate, former Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney was the only candidate to even briefly address healthcare. Even more outrageous is that, with the exception of Romney, the other candidates hardly mention healthcare on their campaign websites, arguably the best venue to address American’s concerns...
...Hill," or because my coworkers at a health policy think tank are so accustomed to this behavior from the Bush Administration. Bush's stem cell policy, however, is unacceptable. It is not only stifling funds for research that could save lives, but it does not even effectively address the moral questions that embryonic stem cells raise...
...homeland security appropriations bill - one of 12 that must be passed each year to provide funding for the federal government - over a dispute concerning earmarks, those sneaky provisions lawmakers place into bills that typically allot funds for projects in their home districts. Bush, in his June 16 radio address, also focused on earmarks - and referred to the Democrats with that old-school label: "tax-and-spend." Most significantly, Bush has vowed to veto any appropriations bill that comes in above the amount he has specifically asked for. That's most of them. Come late summer or early fall, a showdown...
...people have been killed in Afghanistan over the past year and a half, according to press accounts and human rights groups. About 1,500 were civilians. While suicide bombs and other insurgent activities have killed the bulk of those civilians, comparisons between international and insurgent-inflicted death tolls insufficiently address the issue, says Dr. Sima Samar, Chairwoman of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. "We expect the International forces to do better," she says. "The Taliban do not abide by international human rights and humanitarian law. The international forces and the Afghan National Army have to be more cautious than...
...suffered embarrassing legal setbacks over the imprisonment of alleged terrorists at Guantanamo. Last year, the Supreme Court invalidated Bush's system of military trials for Guantanamo prisoners. Late in 2006 the Republican-led Congress enacted a law that created a new system of military tribunals in an attempt to address legal flaws identified by the court...