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Hockey may be a strange sport to some--it is the only professional sport that does not severely punish fighting among its players--but it is nevertheless a sport in the truest sense of the word. And it is also a sport that, like all others, has every right to police itself. So even if we may need to clean up hockey, pressing charges against McSorley isn't the way to go about...
...logical problems. They have said McCain proposes a ban on individual giving to political campaigns on the grounds that politicians (including himself) cannot be trusted to ward off the influence the money is purported to buy. This penalizes the wrong agent, they believe. If politicians are to blame, why punish the citizens? If politicians play favorites their contributors, citizens will vote them out of office on election...
Tort reform seemed inevitable, but after six weeks of negotiations in the spring of 1995, the package stalled over the issue of capping the punitive damages that juries use to punish defendants. Bush and the Republicans wanted a cap of $100,000; Bullock and the Democrats wanted it set at $1 million. When Bush refused to budge, state senator David Sibley, a Republican ally, told him the bill could die. Bush invited Sibley to the mansion for dinner that night. While they were eating, the phone rang. It was Bullock, calling to deliver something he was famous...
When TIME asked Bush why he supported the sternest welfare measures, he resorted to standard-issue conservative rhetoric. "I don't buy the argument that old-style welfare programs are compassionate. Creating a sense of dependency is not compassionate." But why punish children for the sins of their parents? "We never said we were not going to fund children," he claimed, against the evidence. "They'd [still] have health insurance and food stamps...
...problem nor the solution. They carried signs saying END CORPORATE RULE. And the masked hoodlums who turned the city into a battleground didn't trash government offices; they went after Niketown, Starbucks and the Gap. The labor-environmental coalition that stymied the WTO wants powerful global organizations that will punish companies that exploit workers and pollute the countryside. Ask them what they want Congress to do, and you'll get a puzzled look. For them, Congress is pretty much beside the point...