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...response to a series of questions about ongoing cuts—such as the 25 percent reduction in House budgets—Smith and Hammonds pointed to various instances where the administration had elected to keep certain commitments...
...nearly all of human history, the fastest way to travel was by horseback, and contagious diseases could only spread from town to town by piggybacking on migratory animals or unlucky travelers. Despite these difficulties, the Black Death in Europe was still able to kill between 30 and 60 percent of Europe’s population. The forward march of science around the globe has helped keep disease at bay through vaccinations, good hygiene, and quarantines, but international air travel gives upstart pathogens hoping to hit the big time an advantage their ancestors never had. Should the Black Death return...
...most egregious of these omissions is the fact that today’s GOP is but a phantom of its former self. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Apr. 26, while 35 percent of Americans identify themselves as Democratic and 38 percent as independent, only 21 percent of Americans currently identify themselves as Republican. Like some grotesque Russian-nested doll, the Republican coalition has been losing constituencies one by one, so that now only the most virulently reactionary elements of its base remain...
...According to Pew, Obama’s national approval and approval among independents is virtually identical, with 59 percent approving nationally and 57 percent of independents concurring...
...Lieberman has long espoused the notion that Israel’s Palestinian citizens are a demographic and strategic threat. We are the ones who remained on our land when roughly 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by the new state of Israel in 1948. We comprise nearly 20 percent of Israel’s population. Yet Lieberman—an immigrant from Moldova—would have us stripped of our second-class citizenship in a land swap with a future Palestinian state—a state whose very existence Netanyahu has yet to accept...