Word: opinionating
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...never met someone so busy," he would say. "It's not good. You should never hurry a driver. You should leave timings to God." When I replied that God and I had different deadlines, and that anyway I wasn't a believer, that only confirmed Bishaq's low opinion of me. After that, my every request to speed up or please, please skip just one meal was met by his invoking my "godlessness...
TOWARD THE BEGINNING OF THE COURT'S string of school-secularization cases, the most eloquent language preserving the neutral study of religion was probably Justice Robert Jackson's concurring opinion in the 1948 case McCollum v. Board of Education: "One can hardly respect the system of education that would leave the student wholly ignorant of the currents of religious thought that move the world society for ... which he is being prepared," Jackson wrote, and warned that putting all references to God off limits would leave public education "in shreds." In the 1963 Schempp decision, the exemption for secular study...
...speech rights of students. After all, if “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” tangentially relates to school curriculum, almost anything could be linked to the school’s mission. Frederick’s message is almost incomprehensible, but his rights remain inviolable. He expressed an opinion at a public event off school property. As Justice David H. Souter ’61 pointed out during the argument, “It’s political speech…I don’t see what it disrupts.” There is thus no justification...
...Public opinion polls showed Blanco losing by a whopping margin in a rematch with her 2003 runoff opponent, Republican Bobby Jindal, now a U.S. representative and one of only two Republicans who have announced plans to run for the state's top job. Jindal, who tacked hard to the right to win his suburban New Orleans district seat in 2004, has the backing of the state party. Now, another candidate, state Senator and wealthy businessman Walter Boasso, has been running television ads touting his anti-establishment credentials...
...country's ire is focused on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who last week publicly acknowledged that he is "an unpopular Prime Minister" - conceding the truth of opinion polls that give him the lowest approval ratings of any Prime Minister in the nation's history. He bears the onus of the living in the shadow of Ariel Sharon, of failing to snatch victory in last year's Lebanon war - a conflict that saw Hizballah Katyushas raining down on Israeli territory - of leading the nation as the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran rises to the east and of presiding over...