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...women who want to use birth control. Since 1995, U.S. funding for overseas family-planning clinics has declined nearly 40%. In the same period, the number of women in their childbearing years has grown by 275 million. It's time for a renewed commitment to family-planning. Brian Dixon, Vice President, Population Connection, Washington...
...been hearing about his Senate speeches since I was in, like, the second grade.' SARAH PALIN, Republican vice-presidential candidate, on Democratic rival Joe Biden...
...done for Alaska and Wasilla: increase revenues, decrease spending, tax windfalls and ensure greater dividends are returned to her present constituents. So what if she has found only 2% of Alaska's budget to be pork? No one else was looking. In Palin, America just may have a Vice President who knows how to exploit the national government's bureaucracy and lawmakers in favour of her constituents, and such a change, it seems to me, would be about time. Peter Nortje, CAPE TOWN
Texas When news of the Wall Street bailout plan broke, coffee shops and courthouse-square cafés in the Lone Star State echoed with disgust for it. So great was the outrage that Chet Edwards - whom Speaker Nancy Pelosi once touted for Obama's Vice President - may be dogged by his yes vote on the campaign trail. Edwards, a popular Democratic incumbent in President George W. Bush's home district, was one of nine Representatives out of Texas' 32-person delegation to vote for the bill. (Even four of the five Texas Republicans whom Bush called personally voted against...
...Nearly every major political leader in the U.S. supported the $700 billion financial-bailout bill. The President. The Vice President. The Treasury Secretary. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Democratic and Republican nominees for President. The Democratic and Republican leadership of the House and Senate. All of them said the same thing: vote...