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Gore, on the other hand, is determined to increase penalties for hate crimes, which are designed to stigmatize and dehumanize entire groups of people. Bush panders to the right wing and insists that hate crimes are no different from other crimes because every killer has "hate in his heart." The family of James Byrd, who was brutally murdered by bigots in Texas, pleaded with Bush to support a new hate-crimes statue in Texas. He refused. There is a difference between hate crimes and other crimes, and we need a president who understands that...
...vote power" as the probability that your vote will break a tie and directly cause one candidate to be elected over another. Ridiculous as this definition may seem, when you watch the election returns in November you will realize that unless the popular vote in your state is split right down the middle with one vote more to the candidate you voted for, your vote has done nothing but impotently increment the one's digit in your chosen candidate's column. So the better a voting system, the greater probability of a deadlock broken by your vote, making your vote...
...will we ever be rid of the electoral system? Do we even want to be? While our reasoning about voter power generally tends to be deontological (i.e. one person, one vote is inherently right), these arguments are quite utilitarian in their appeal, which seems to at once make them suspect. But if the price of freedom truly is eternal vigilance, we need to explore these practical effects of the Electoral College before we decide to dismantle a central part of our federal election system...
...worried about letting down the student body. I know there's so many brilliant people here who could have answered every question right--I didn't want to shame the school," he said...
...even if the Israelis pull back their troops and Yasser Arafat is able to muster the requisite political authority to stop young Palestinians from marching on their positions - and right now that's a very big "if," as not only his Islamist opposition but even much of the grassroots membership of his own Fatah organization has virulently and openly opposed the agreement at Sharm el-Sheikh - the latest agreement may only temporarily separate the combatants on each side...