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Independents Will Decide the 2012 Election
Here are three ways Obama and Romney can woo them.
A raft of new polls about the presidential race drives home what everyone has always known: This election will turn on independent voters, the ever-growing plurality of Americans who refuse to sign up for Team Red or Team Blue.
According to Gallup and based on 20,000 interviews from 20 polls taken throughout 2011, "a record-high 40 percent of Americans identify as Independents." To put that in perspective, consider that self-identified Democrats roll in at a historic low of 31 percent while just 27 percent of us are willing to admit being Republicans. When the partisan leanings of independents were taken into consideration, Gallup found the nation evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with each claiming 45 percent of the electorate. How important are independents, especially the 10 percent who don't lean toward Dems or Reps? President Barack Obama's convincing win over Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in 2008 was due in large part to his pulling 51 percent of self-identified independents to McCain's 43 percent. And Republican gains in the 2010 midterms stemmed largely from the GOP getting 55 percent of independent votes versus the Democrats pulling only 39 percent. Take it to the bank: You win any national election if you win the independent vote.
So where are Obama and his would-be Republican challengers these days? Despite the recent, high-profile flap about insurance mandates and contraception, which was widely interpreted to benefit Obama, the president's poll numbers have been sliding. A Bloomberg National Poll from March 8-11 shows Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) tied with 47 percent each among likely general election voters. Yet "among independents, whose votes will swing the election in November, 49 percent support Romney and 41 percent Obama in the survey." In a CBS News/New York Times poll of registered voters from March 7-11, Obama is basically tied with Romney (47 percent to 44 percent) while handily beating Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich. When it comes to independents in the CBS News/New York Times poll, Obama's advantage over the likely nominee Romney is smaller, at 45 percent versus 43 percent.
If independent voters are the key to the presidency, what are the keys to independent voters? In its summary of 2011 attitudes toward government and political parties, Gallup concluded that the surge in independents stems from the "sluggish economy, record levels of distrust in government, and unfavorable views of both parties." Indeed, a "historic" 81 percent of Americans overall are "dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed" and 53 percent of us have negative views of the Republican Party and 55 percent of us have negative views of the Democratic Party.
Such attitudes aren't suprising. For the entire run of the 21st century so far, we've suffered at the hands of politicians whose predilection for crisis-mongering is surpassed only by ideological gymnastics last seen when Nadia Comaneci was bestriding the balance beam in the 1976 Olympics. Whether it's George W. Bush's about-face from a "humble" foreign policy and his disastrous abandonment of "free-market principles to save the free-market system" or Barack Obama's malarkey about pushing for "a net spending cut" and papier-mache commitments to civil liberties and executive-branch transparency, it hasn't been possible to take politicians at their word for a very long time.
If Barack Obama wants to win a second term and Mitt Romney, who will almost certainly be the GOP standard-bearer, wants to snag his first, here are three keys to winning independent voters.
1. The Economy, Stupids. If independents are growing because of the sorry state of the economy, then smart pols will work toward not simply improving the economy but being honest about the limits of what they can do to hasten recovery. You'd think that Mitt Romney, who touts his private-sector success as one of the main reasons to vote for him, would have some idea of how to create long-term growth in output and jobs. Or at least some idea of what he would do with the federal budget. Yet as my colleague Peter Suderman pointed out just a few days ago, the former Bain Capital bigwig fails at the simple task of saying what he would cut from the federal budget and what tax loopholes he would close. Instead, Romney invokes small-government cliches like magical words that will bring rain.
Obama is even worse when it comes to laying out anything that can pass a laugh test when it comes to the economy. Which is why in the CBS/New York Times survey, 55 percent of independents disapprove of the way he's handling the economy and 63 percent agree with the statement that "things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track." Despite self-interested testimonies that the stimulus was a smashing success (even though many supporters continue to bemoan its small size), everyone knew as soon as its key metric switched from jobs created to "jobs created or saved" that it was a joke. Obama has been promising big new plans to create jobs since before he entered the White House and his eventual delivery of that is about as believable as Senate Democrats' promises to deliver a budget ever again. What's worse, Obama has pushed legislation ranging from health care reform to energy subsidies to debt-ceiling increases to Dodd-Frank whose eventual costs are unknowable in the near term. Introducing that sort of uncertainty is no way to clear the ground for a robust and long-lived recovery.
A smart, simple, and believable economic message from either candidate—and their respective parties—would start with the frank admission that government in the end can't really do a helluva lot other than create zombie jobs. What the government can do is create a stable and predictable framework that will allow investors, employers, and workers figure out their next steps.
Speaking honestly about the limits of government intervention would also address another key concern among independents: distrust of politicians.
2. Be Even a Little Honest and Straightforward. It's probably true that voters like getting lied to, especially if the truth is pretty ugly. But the flip-flopper tag sticks to Mitt Romney for the simple reason that he's got a lot of explaining to do. This is the guy whose major accomplishment in his one term in public office was passage of a health care plan in Masschusetts that is widely and accurately portrayed as the model for ObamaCare. Forget all the nuances and qualifications and subtle and not-so-subtle changes between RomneyCare and the federal version. The plain truth is that since it was enacted, premiums under RomneyCare have increased dramatically (even if the rate of growth slowed a bit in 2010). And contrary to his claim that he never pushed an individual mandate to purchase insurance at the national level, Romney did as recently as 2009 in a USA Today op-ed. It's tough to trust a guy who is b.s.-ing about his signature accomplishment. When you add his suspiciously timed reversals on issues ranging from abortion to same-sex marriage to immigration, Romney needs to come clean if he's going to gain the confidence of suspicious voters.
Similarly, Obama has been busy dissembling on issues large and small. Remember his denunciation of super PACs? He now embraces them. His promises of transparency? Gone. His apparent antipathy toward war and reckless foreign policy actions? Forget about it. His promise to rein in executive branch abuses of power? That one disappeared sometime before his attorney general started defending the president's right to assasinate U.S. citizens basically whenever he wants to. When it comes to the economy and federal budget, Obama has been plain awful. Just weeks before the 2008 election, he reiterated his promise to enact a "net spending cut" and his pledge that nobody making less than $250,000 a year would see their taxes increase. That's just not so and his promises to slash debt and deficits have come to naught. In his latest budget plan, Obama wants the feds to be spending $5.5 trillion in 2021, up from $3.8 trillion in fiscal 2013. His scenario anticipates deficits in each year going forward and even he acknowledges he's got no way of paying for such increases other than massive borrowing.
Is there any question why voters distrust the government when its actual and potential leaders are more full of baloney than an Oscar Mayer factory?
3. Cut Back on the Party Hackery Already. As a sitting president, Obama is the head of the Democratic Party. If Mitt Romney wants to unseat him, he's going to have become the standard bearer of the party of Lincoln. Both parties are about as inspiring as Chrysler and GM. They are tired old brands that should have gone out of business a long time ago. The GOP has long claimed to be the party of limited government and it often does argue to get the feds out of the boardroom. Yet it has never been persuasive that it wants the government out of the bedroom. And the party faithful haven't even begun to come to terms with the disaster that was the George W. Bush presidency. Bush was nothing short of a big-government disaster who shredded any and all pretense to fiscal responsibility, larded up the federal payroll with a record number of regulators, launched expensive and unnecessary entitlements, and created a whole new way to FUBAR U.S. foreign policy. His spirit lives on in House Republican leaders such as Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) who can't bring themselves to push for a balanced budget over the next 10 years and offer up impotent plans such as "The Pledge to America," which would do absolutely zero to stave off the fiscal reckoning that's just a few years away. All you need to know about these guys is that Boehner, in one of his big interviews after the midterms, couldn't name a single program to cut.
What the GOP leadership—and Mitt Romney—don't get is that they didn't win the 2010 midterms exactly. Voters rejected the Democrats for their wicked, wicked ways and voted in record numbers of Tea Party candidates who push for reduced spending (recall with interest that rising star Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky thanked the Tea Party on election night, not the GOP establishment that tried to block his run). Romney's rallying cry about Obama breaking the bank while bitching about the size of the U.S. Navy and ignoring the 70 percent increase (in inflation-adjusted dollars) in defense spending between 2001 and 2010 is the worst sort of partisan hackery. If the Department of Defense can't improve results after that bump up, it's time to shut down the whole thing. Isn't that what conservatives say about the Department of Education?
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You should write a book with Matt about this.
An excellent idea!
And give it a catchy title. Maybe something like a play on words with an historical document.
"The Articles of Confederation And How They Apply to the 21st Century"
No, too long...no play on words.
"Magna Carta? More Like Jimmeh Carter!"
"It's The Ten Commandments - Not The Ten Suggestions!"
The Consent to Shun
Thank you for this very insightful, well-thought-out article. Of course President Obama should take the advice of the libertarians. It's great articles like this that prove, with some exceptions, why libertarianism is the dominant political theory and party in America, and their not-at-all-unproven-and-crank-like ideas are used the world over.
Awww....let me guess - someone stole your sweetroll.
Probably took an arrow to the knee too.
4. Start another war.
I've suddenly lost the taste for arugula.
You are a demented POS.
I hated Bush but I would never attack his wife.
Did I miss something?
That comment was aimed at Suki and his link. Not at Nick G.
Did Nick say something about the First Buck-toothed, big-assed FUGLY?
We see no problem with the alternate term "First Yeti".
He just might start making a play for independents and even Republican votes by moving toward the center and picking fights with his own party.
If by "center" you mean things that both Teams agree on such as increased spending on a multitude of things, increased foreign intervention, and "fixing" the economy by enacting stifling regulations, then I agree. If you mean libertarian-ish small government ideas then please hook me up with whatever you're smoking.
If there is an increasing number of people that are dissatisfied with the status quo it's not because they are centrist. It's because they want neither Left Wing or Right Wing policies enacted, not a little of one and a little of the other.
Besides, the bulk of the voting populace is very pleased with economic and foreign interventions, they just want their flavor of it and not the other Team's.
Also, Clinton did the "I'm a Republican, too" right after 1994. And mostly stayed there. Obama got the notice in 2010 and did nothing.
Are you that big an idiot? Obama offered to cut SS/Medi and the GOP refused him.
obama is such a centrist. That is why he has spent the last year throwing the race card and trying to restart the culture war.
FOX News rots the brain.
Tony|3.14.12 @ 5:30PM|#
"FOX News rots the brain."
John is a Culture Warrior. He sucks Bill-O's rank diseased little cock.
He hates us secular rationalists.
He hates us secular rationalists.
"Us" being...?
If those are your grievances with Obama, I'm pretty sure you clicked on the wrong web site.
John is all about GOP cocksuckage this year....
This year?
I say good for him. At least shameless lying on behalf of a party is more practical than the nihilistic nerdy emo attitude of libertarians.
I feel that John is one of the most honest interlocutors here. If you watch FOX and don't retch then you must honestly believe its nonstop shilling whining bullshit.
Maybe because those cuts were tied to tax increases?
And as we all know, neither party wants to cut those sacred cows, no matter how much they moo otherwise.
At a 3-1 ratio favoring cuts.
Do you want to stave off insolvency or not?
shrike|3.14.12 @ 7:16PM|#
"At a 3-1 ratio favoring cuts."
Jebus, doesn't all that spinning make you dizzy?
If Obama says "dance", I dance, bitches.
Dude - the Fix is in! Big Pussy is on board!
Obama has never offered to "cut" anything. And he has recoiled at every opportunity he has had to sign bills that slow the growth of spending (otherwise known in capitol hill speak as a "cut"). But heck, maybe we should give him another 4 years based on the cuts he might make. If it works for the Nobel Prize Committee...
I dunno about that, he's been pretty Republican when it comes to the wars. All he had to do was lay off the culture war bullshit, but it seems like both TEAMs are unable to let that ever go away.
Keystone and off shore drilling and domestic spending. If he had agreed to roll back some domestic spending and approved Keystone, he would be killing the Republicans right now.
His base is full of brain dead morons like Shrike. They are going to vote for him no matter what.
It's truly amazing that he didn't try to cut or reform a single program just so he could score some brownie points with people concerned about spending. Like, it doesn't even have to be a major program or a anyone sacred cow, just one thing would have given him a massive boost. Right now it seems that spending, in general, has become the Left's sacred cow.
He is not very politically astute. He won on a fluke in 2008. If he had worked with the Republicans in the House and the red State Dems in the Senate and cut the deficit, he could have taken away the entire reason for the Republicans running.
What was the fluke?
That he's black?
jcalton|3.14.12 @ 5:46PM|#
"What was the fluke?"
He isn't W.
What was the fluke?
The republicans nominated someone dumb enough to run Sarah Palin as VP.
His base is full of brain dead morons like Shrike. They are going to vote for him no matter what.
If only libertarians could win this demographic. I mean, it appears to be pretty easy to win...
Every president is pro-war.
Nah. Culture war is the safest topic since it's the least measurable. Okay maybe some big-issue stuff gets into play every now and then but mostly it's just horseshit about menorahs on courthouses or naughty rock lyrics. You can do almost nothing, achieve absolutely nothing as still claim victory.
If Republicans keep talking about contraception then he won't even have to try to win the independent vote.
There is a possibility that at some point there will be nothing left of that horse but paste and then we can move on.
contraceptive paste
Is that what nonoxynol 9 is made of?
That's just about true. Most Republicans I know love to fuck and they really love their birth control.
Why will independents decide the election?
Because committed Republicans aren't going to vote for Obama even if the GOP candidate is an unmitigated piece of shit like Santorum, and committed Democrats are dumb enough to have Obama stickers on their cars already, because they aren't even aware of how embarrassing that should be.
The only good thing that can come out of this election is an even lower voter participation rate.
You know who's going to decide this election?
Whoa, that's crazy talk.
And given their track record, that's pretty scary.
If you've never read this, please do so now*:
Nagel concluded that democracies rarely or never elect the best leaders. Their advantage over dictatorships or other forms of government is merely that they "effectively prevent lower-than-average candidates from becoming leaders."
* Not that we have a democracy. I'm pretty sure everyone here understands that. It's amazing that even though people say "to the republic" in the pledge of allegiance, they don't realize they live in one.
I mean on paper.
"to the oligarchy for which it stands" doesn't have the same ring to it.
no wai
If there's anyone here in AZ, head on over to
and donate $100 please.
That'll put him 14/20 for the contributions needed for matching federal election funds. There are a few other states that are also pretty close. Good chance to at least pull a couple million in the libertarian direction.
Only the first $250 of any individual's donation counts, which is typical government stupidity.
As much as I think Gary is miles ahead of the R/Ds, we mustn't spam.
Mention the fact that he was an equal opportunity vetoer as Governor. He has no problem taking his own party (not that he'll have many in office) to task.
Mention that his policies created a stable environment for business to flourish in unafraid of what the future might bring. He speaks lightly that he didn't create a single job as Governor.
Mention his seeming inability to BS. That he's held most of his positions since running for Governor. That he allows himself to be swayed by facts, and has sometimes changed positioned.
Do share his webpage, and any relevant events like the upcoming online town hall on Monday. But engage with your audience. First rule of public speaking.
Why does politics attract such douche bags? Seriously, how are these people anywhere near anything important?
The FCC should punish this behavior.
Why does politics attract such douche bags? Seriously, how are these people anywhere near anything important?
Dude, you need this answered?
I thought it was self-evident.
Obama's biggest problem is that only diehard Democrats think he's come anywhere close to delivering on his promises. Easily 25% of the people who voted for him are hugely disappointed, and Romney isn't scary enough to make them all Obama voters again.
And there aren't enough people upset by the "Romney once put a dog carrier on top of his car" scandal to make a difference, either. (Though it seems that some of my Facebook friends would rather vote for Castro because of that incident.)
Romney's dog cruelty only illustrated his aloof tendency. The guy is a fucking dartboard.
It's entirely arguable whether that was "cruelty."
I guess he'd have to start killing American citizens overseas before he developed the warm-hearted, folksy charm of Obama, eh?
Honestly it might be a better idea to wait until the debates start and they start demonizing each other. If Obama can paint Romney as a rich, big business, souless jerk then he can probably galvanize enough of his dissatisfied base to vote for him.
That's essentially how Bush was able to get a lot of dissatisfied conservatives to vote for him in 2004 and why the GOP lost huge in 2006 when they didn't have bogeyman to point at.
Romney will look to many like a Godsend compared to the incompetent blowhard Obama. Of course much of Obama's base will vote for him, but without the bandwagon of enthusiasm and the starstruck and hopeful independents of 2008, he's doomed.
Independents Will Decide the 2012 Election
It's already been decided, you fool!
I'm pretty sure the media decides elections. Well, sometimes the Supreme Court...but mostly the media.
They definitely decide who we get to vote for.
Say what you want about the movie, but I always liked this speech:
"How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now
high chancellor, Adam Sutlerpresident, Barack Obama. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent."
Man, how the hell does the PUSA wear cargo shorts on a golf course. No class.
Nouveau riche.
I'm tired of seeing Obama all over the place.
First post here. I love the article and love the very moderate, centrist-y feel around the place. Also, very few insults compared to the rest of the internet political sites I've visited. I look forward to some very engaging discussion!
We should get DISQUS here.
Let the insulting begin!
Fuck off, christfag.
It seems you use Ctrl-V a lot for your posts, huh?
Independents decide every election.
Wait, I thought elections were bought and paid for by corporations. Now I'm confused.
Independent Corporations!
Personally, since Paul most likely won't win, I'm rooting for The Big O. It will be great to see him take the fall for a century of statist warmongering and economic cronyism.
Crony capitalism is rife within both parties, but Obama proved he cares the least for private property rights and individual liberty, and whose party puts the "organized" into their brand of corruption.
"Obama proved he cares the least for private property rights and individual liberty,"
That's GREAT!
I don't care for independents- they stick a finger in the wind to see what or who to vote for
Man up and pick a side, you self-indulgent navel-gazers
I fired the last political party I belonged to because I didn't want to have to defend their incompetence and profligate spending. They have to earn my vote. If you want to give it away for free, that's up to you man.
If you don't pick a political party those other guys will win.
I am an independent. I registered independent the first time I ever voted in 1972 and have never registered any other way. Are you saying you do not like independent voters?
I am an independent. I registered independent the first time I ever voted in 1972 and have never registered any other way. Are you saying you do not like independent voters?
I am an independent. I registered independent the first time I ever voted in 1972 and have never registered any other way. Are you saying you do not like independent voters?
I am an independent voter. I registered independent the first time I voted in 1972. I have never registered any other way. Are you saying you do not like independent voters?
looks like Ron Paul supporters are taking over some state GOP conventions, and some people are crying about it like the little girls.
Ron Paul and his supporters need to learn that less government and more freedom have no place in the republican party.
A whale fin or a flatworm?
Unfortunately the author fails to point out that most of the independents who will decide this election are no more informed about the issues than a dead sperm and thats being generous. They know enough to be unhappy but that is the extent of it. As the election approaches they will decide who will be president based on who looks cooler on TV and who talks "intellegently". If repubs want to win they better start having Romney take sax lessons from Bill.
Dead sperm, sax and Bill, let it go man, let it go.
Nah.. Mitt's a pan flute guy all the way.. I read on the internets that he celebrates Zamphir's entire catalog.
How, if the choice is going to be between Obama and Romney, does it begin to matter, one way or the other, who independents vote for? In what possible way will the election matter at all, one way or the other?
You'll probably see the mysterious return of the anti-war Left is Romney gets elected.
That's about the only difference I can think of off the top of my head.
sweet. i missed them. plus, i'd prefer a romney SCOTUS appointment because we already have a wise latina woman
Well, I'd imagine political humorists might start being funny again.
It doesn't matter. really. A vote for a party candidate is a vote against independence. The problem is that since taking over the government in the election of 1800, political parties have made it impossible for an independent voter to run for political office by passing laws at state level that make it too difficult.
Republicans and Democrats do not allow anyone else run for office. They do still allow elections involving their party candidates, which is a good thing in the present political climate because every election increases the number of independent voters. Once independent voters gain seven more percentage points, they will outnumber all political party members in the United States, and the Supreme Court will be unable to keep enforcing two-party corruption.
The GOP can't win with this group of wackadoodles. No way.
I remember 1996 and Bob Dole. I feel a strange tickle at the back of my mind this year.
it might be syphilis - you should get that checked
Independents Will Decide the 2012 Election
Also just in, the sky is blue, water is wet, and people breathe oxygen. Film at 11.
I mean, really? This is the case with nearly every election, the wing nuts cancel each other out and the independents and moderates in the middle the ebb and flow to one side or the other depending on who pissed them off most recently decide the outcome.
The independents still have to chose between Team Red or Team Blue. Independents and everyone else never get what they want through the political process. Best course of action is not to vote and devote your time to making yourself independent of politicians who want to mold you to their ideal.
If Obama is doing the job his masters selected for him to do, then he will probably be re-elected.Presidents aren't elected. They are selected. The Council on foreign relations had picked Hillary Clinton to be president in 2008. After meeting with Obama, it was agreed that he would be a good solider.The government knows most people don't bother to read informative books or do their own research.Millions of citizens have be dumbed down by the corporate controlled news media for over forty years. Why think when they don't have to. Let the Washington think-tanks think for them. They have other priorities." It is fortunate for the governments that the masses don't think." Adolf Hitler.


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there a people carriers for that purpose, off road cars should be 4x4
Recent article on top cars the Qashqia 1.6 Tekna is recommended, list price of £26500 with aim for price of 21500 approximately, almost 8% discount? Where can I get one with a discount of this rate?
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of the University of Utah College of Law says that if the US had followed Israel's lead in taking an aggressive approach to judicial review of executive action, such controversial Bush Administration policies as torture, military commissions, and indefinite detention would have been subjected to the strict scrutiny they so deserved.....
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The Court held that the JAG's decision was not reasonable, thus clearly emphasizing a powerful lesson: the executive cannot operate outside the boundaries of the law, especially when it involves the use of military force. This lesson should reverberate loud and clear in the US courts, where the judiciary should end its near automatic deference to executive determinations regarding the use and application of force.
Sitting as the High Court of Justice, the Israeli Supreme Court engages in the most robust form of judicial review of the executive, which includes the Israel Defense Forces. The review is a clear manifestation of checks and balances and it reflects the importance and vitality of the separation of powers. The Court's self-imposed mandate is to ascertain the 'reasonableness' of the executive's decision. This does not mean that it 'steps in the shoes' of the decision maker; the Court does not claim expertise in all facets of executive decision making. It does, however, mean that applying reasonableness as a measuring stick ensures an analysis that goes beyond the scope of the actual decision. That is, the Court's analysis of the specific decision at issue extends to the decision's larger implications.
Comparativism is always problematic because judicial and political regimes are inherently different. Nevertheless, I have long argued that if the US Supreme Court were to adopt an approach of active (i.e. aggressive) judicial review that's not predicated on deference to the executive, many of the Bush Administration policies (such as torture, military commissions, indefinite detention) would have been subjected to the strict scrutiny and bright lights they so deserved. Critics of my proposal respond that the American judicial system is different than the Israeli system, making the comparison untenable. Although the systems are indeed different, there are important lessons to learn from the Court's decision regarding the Judge Advocate General's decision.
The executive, regardless of rank and post, is not immune from judicial review. Deference does not benefit the state or the individual petitioner. If the Israeli Supreme Court had taken the track of judicial deference, in all probability the JAG's decision would have been upheld, thereby minimizing the gravity of the commander's decision. Only by directly engaging the executive in active strict scrutiny could the Court hold that the JAG had fundamentally erred.
Some Israeli commentators have suggested that the JAG's legal opinions should be seen as beyond the High Court's purview. This suggestion is extraordinarily problematic for it implies that judicial review should not be universally applied because some decisions are 'off limits'.
Nothing is more dangerous to a democracy than an 'unfettered executive'. Justice Jackson was both prescient and correct in
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
. His concern was also timeless. This principle must be applied across the board. Encouraging judicial review of some executive branches but not others will do no more than ensure unequal justice under law. The JAG's decision must be subject to review in the same vein as that of any other executive decision maker. The essence of active judicial review is to protect the unprotected and to ensure that the executive acts within reasonable boundaries as broadly defined.
By ruling that the JAG did not act within these boundaries, the Court is sending a loud and clear message: the executive is subject to strict judicial review and it cannot hide behind the cloak of executive decision making. That powerful and compelling message should be adopted by the US Supreme Court, particularly when striking a balance between the legitimate rights of the individual and the equally legitimate national security rights of the State. The free pass that the Supreme Court has historically granted the executive in national security cases (
Korematsu v. United States
being the poster child) has, in the long-run, harmed the individual and the state alike.
In effectively protecting the individual from the executive, the Israeli decision reinforces the importance of judicial review. This protection is ultimately in the best interests of society. Just as the JAG could not – and should not – escape judicial review, no US Administration policy should be immune from strict judicial scrutiny.
This is the ultimate lesson to be applied.
Amos N. Guiora, a professor of Law at the University of Utah's SJ Quinney College of Law, served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces' Judge Advocate Generals Corps. His recent books include "Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation" and "Fundamentals of Counterterrorism" and "Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism." A forthcoming volume, "Freedom from Religion", is slated for publication by Oxford University Press on October 1. His e-mail is email@example.com.
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Calhoun was a second-team pick and Crawford was an honorable mention selection. Both are seniors.
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Calhoun also ranks 19th all-time at BGSU with 1,327 career points, leaving him just 29 shy of NBA Hall of Famer Nate Thurmond for 18th on the list. He also needs just three rebounds for 600 in his career.
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ARLINGTON, Texas Mike Napoli spent three fewer years with the Texas Rangers than Josh Hamilton did but his homecoming trip to Texas had a much different feel. While Hamilton was booed lustily in his return to Texas in Arlington, the fan favorite Napoli was greeted by cheers, a partial standing ovation and even a "Napoli" chant when he returned Friday at first base for Boston. It's just the way Napoli wanted it. "I had two great years here, a lot of moments I'll never forget," said Napoli, who was struck out by Derek Holland in his first at-bat. "It's going to be fun. I'm happy to still be playing baseball. I'm going to enjoy it and take it all in." It's understandable that Napoli came to Texas in an upbeat mood, given the year he's had with Boston. He came into Friday's game leading the American League in RBI with 31 and doubles with 15. Those are numbers that didn't look like they would be attainable during an offseason in which his three year, 39-million deal with the Red Sox had to be renegotiated to a one-year pact for 5 million guaranteed because of concerns about Napoli's hips. But Napoli, who had a chance to sign a two-year deal with Texas, has kept things simple with Boston and it's paid off for the first place Red Sox. "It feels good," he said. "I'm playing some good baseball right now and I'm just going to try and maintain it. Just do the little things to help our ball club out any way I can. Just go out and play hard the way I always have." After a strong first season with the Rangers in 2011, Napoli batted just .227 last year with 24 home runs and 56 RBI. He was limited to just 108 games by injuries and his numbers may have been hampered by the grind of trying to catch every day. But with Boston this year, he's strictly a first baseman and designated hitter. It's been a nice change although he still said he misses catching some. "Last year I never really felt like I do right now," he said. "I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. I've got keys I work on in the cage. Just go out there and try to keep it the same." Napoli spent time Friday visiting with his old teammates and signing autographs for some of his still-adoring fans at Rangers Ballpark. The Rangers are hoping to hold him in check in this series and aren't surprised with the kind of start he's had with Boston. "Right now he's swinging the bat well," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "It's nothing new that I haven't seen before. He's healthy. When he was healthy here he was tremendous. Last year he fought a lot of injuries and just could never find it." As for the warm reception Napoli received, that didn't come as a shock to the Rangers either. "He was a pro while he was here," second baseman Ian Kinsler said. Napoli also believes his two years in Texas helped set him up for the kind of success he's had with Boston. "They were important," he said. "I came over here (Texas) and just how it was in the clubhouse, my personality I could really show in the clubhouse and get out here and be myself, be the player I could be. Not taking away from Anaheim, it was different over there than it was over here in Texas. It was awesome for me."
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Republican-controlled Tennessee General Assembly adjourned earlier than they have in years, but Democrats say the contentious tone caused by some of the GOP legislation that passed this session is going to linger -- and could hurt at the ballot box.
As they adjourned Saturday, Republicans boasted of finishing a week before Memorial Day and passing the state's $30.8 billion spending plan that includes most of new Gov. Bill Haslam's agenda. It was the earliest the General Assembly has finished since 2004, an accomplishment GOP leaders touted as an example of efficient governing that saved taxpayers money.
But Democrats say a lot of Tennesseans are not pleased with what they deemed "radical" changes Republicans pushed this session through legislation that included stripping teachers of their collective bargaining rights, capping payouts from successful medical malpractice cases, and an anti-terrorism bill that originally sought to make it a felony to follow some versions of the Islamic code known as Shariah before it was later stripped of religious references.
"There are many things that we've done this year that are going to hurt Tennessee," said Sen. Andy Berke, D-Chattanooga. "And ultimately, the people who passed them will pay a cost for that. Tennesseans are moderates. They want to see us working together to make a better state. They don't want to see the radical agenda that is being pushed through."
The most contentious proposal was probably a move to curb teachers' bargaining rights. The measure, which overshadowed Haslam's proposal to make teacher tenure standards more rigorous, drew protesters throughout its legislative process and at one point sparked an anti-union protest that led to seven arrests.
Despite outcry from teachers and other education advocates, Republicans passed the measure to replace teachers' collective bargaining rights with a concept called collaborative conferencing.
Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey said the legislation was necessary.
"This plays right into what we're trying to do in reforming education," said the Blountville Republican. "This wasn't done for political purpose, it was done to improve education in the state of Tennessee."
House Speaker Beth Harwell agreed.
"I think ultimately the education community in this state will be pleased with what the General Assembly did, and I think we're going to find that teachers find even more avenues to participate in the administrative decisions that affect their lives," said the Nashville Republican.
Haslam -- who made education reform a top priority this session -- tried to remain above the fray on the emotional collective bargaining debate, which was not a major issue during last year's gubernatorial or legislative campaigns.
He instead sought to focus on his own education initiatives that included the teacher tenure proposal, which has become law, and a proposal to lift a cap on charter schools that's headed to him for his signature.
The Republican governor said he's not surprised by the emotion generated over collective bargaining and other contentious issues proposed by his party.
"Obviously, different issues can bring out passion in people, and that's not necessarily a bad thing," he said.
Another emotional proposal was the anti-terrorist bill, which attracted hundreds of members of the Muslim community to speak out against it. The watered-down version that's headed to the governor would no longer authorize him or the state's attorney general to decide whether a person or group is a terrorist organization, leaving that authority with the federal government. It also increases penalties for supporting a terrorist organization.
There was also a lot of debate on the measure to cap non-economic damages at $750,000 and only lift the cap if the defendant is found to have the specific intent to cause bodily injury.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Nashville said Republicans didn't focus enough this session on issues important to Tennesseans, such as jobs.
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House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick said he realizes some of the GOP proposals "may energize some of our opponents, but it's generally the people who are against us anyway."
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Summer Chicken and Mushroom Pasta
Toss tender chicken breast pieces with sliced mushrooms, cooked in a thickened chicken broth and dry white wine sauce, with hot cooked penne pasta and cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese for a hearty main dish recipe.
- Makes: 6 servings
- Start to Finish: 30 mins
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ounces packaged dried whole wheat or regular penne pasta
ounces skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into bite-size strips
teaspoon salt
teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
tablespoons olive oil or cooking oil, divided
large cloves garlic, minced
cups sliced fresh mushrooms
medium onion, thinly sliced
cup chicken broth
cup dry white wine
cup cherry tomatoes, halved
cup shredded basil leaves
tablespoons snipped fresh oregano
cup shaved Parmesan cheese
teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Cook pasta in lightly salted boiling water according to package directions. Drain and return to saucepan; keep warm.
- Meanwhile, season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and garlic; cook and stir about 5 minutes or until chicken is tender and no longer pink. Remove from skillet; keep warm.
- Add remaining olive oil to skillet. Cook mushrooms and onion in hot olive oil until just tender, stirring occasionally. Carefully add chicken broth and white wine. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Boil gently, uncovered, about 2 minutes or until liquid is reduced by half. Remove skillet from heat.
- Add cooked pasta, chicken, cherry tomatoes, basil, and oregano to mushroom mixture; toss to coat. Transfer to a serving dish; sprinkle with shaved Parmesan cheese and freshly ground pepper. Serve immediately. Makes 6 servings.
Nutrition Facts (Summer Chicken and Mushroom Pasta)
- Per serving:
- 284 kcal cal.,
- 8 g fat
- (2 g sat. fat,
- 1 g polyunsaturated fat,
- 4 g monounsatured fat),
- 35 mg chol.,
- 271 mg sodium,
- 33 g carb.,
- 4 g fiber,
- 4 g sugar,
- 22 g pro.
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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The tribal council of the Standing Rock Reservation narrowly voted down a tribe member's request to determine support for the University of North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux" nickname through a public vote, the Associated Press reports.
Although UND made plans to retire its nickname and logo in August 2010 after receiving criticism that the name and symbol were offensive, not everyone agrees with the critics. Archie Fool Bear, a supporter of the nickname, says he does not think Wednesday's 7-6 council vote against a referendum was decisive because two council members were absent and one abstained.
Fool Bear says he and other members of the Standing Rock and Spirit Lake Sioux tribes plan to continue lobbying for a reservationwide referendum on the issue. But these and other efforts might be fruitless: Last year, the Standing Rock Tribal Council not only publicly opposed the university's nickname but also voted to ban a referendum on the issue.
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ICC Celebrated Its 50th Anniversary
We have begun the next 50 years of service to Copenhagen
ICC is an English-speaking, ecumenical ministry in greater Copenhagen, Denmark. In this international community of faith, we seek to experience the love of God with Christians from many cultures, confessions and customs. If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
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Please browse these pages to learn about our faithful purpose, find ways to contact us, and discover the schedule for upcoming worship and events so that you can take part in our life and ministry. Whether you are exploring your faith, visiting Copenhagen, traveling through Denmark, or hoping to find a church home, you are invited to come grow with us in God's amazing grace. Join the ICC email family by sending your request here.


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Science and disenchantment: Galileo's Plank and the Shaman's Pole.
October 28, 2012
GALILEO HAD A plank down which he rolled different-sized metal balls. He was questioning Aristotle, according to whom bigger balls should have reached the ground first. But they didn't. All the balls, whatever their size, arrived at the same time. This was the plank of disenchantment, of measurement and close observation. When the balls reached the bottom of the plank, two thousand years of Aristotelianism died there and then, and ever since, experiment has taken over from scripture. Don't take anyone's word for it: Nullius in verba became the motto of the Royal Society later in that century, the seventeeth.
ACCORDING TO MIRCEA Eliade, in shamanistic communities, the shaman's home has a pole (sometimes a tree) which goes through the roof. During the ceremonies of initiation the shaman climbs to the end of this pole, thus establishing that he has journeyed to the extremities of perception, travelled where the non-initiated members of the community cannot go. He returns with a different level of consciousness, an ability to perceive and heal illness, an awareness of the realm of the spirits. He is now fully initiated.
MUST WE CHOOSE one or the other of these as our axis mundi? We live, it seems, between the pole and the plank; between our continuing wish to be enchanted and our eagerness to disenchant the world through science (to know it as it really is, not as we would wish it to be). The question is put to us daily: which is it to be? But is it possible that the choice is a false one, like being asked to choose your left mental hemisphere or your right? Are we being told we must choose one side of the paper or the other? Maybe the pole and the plank represent complementary aspects of the human condition. Could they both be the expression of fundamental needs?
Why Do We Represent?
To represent the world is to absent ourselves temporarily from it. We cannot be seamlessly situated in the present moment, and also be simultaneously situated so as to create a representation. The creation of a representation requires a separation from that which is represented; we cannot simply merge into the perception. We disengage from the present and absorb ourselves instead in what Max Raphael called 'the means of figuration'.1 Here then the scientific and the artistic moments share at least one condition of existence: displacement from utter absorption in the sensuous moment.
Were our earliest intellectual acts in fact moments of orientation? Did we have to remove ourselves from the sensuous continuum in order to situate ourselves intellectually in the world? Constellations may well have been the first moment of art and the first moment of science too. At that stage in human history there was no distinction between the two. What is interesting about the constellations is that they are both there and not there. It is our moment of perception, linking up the light of different stars from different times, which creates the constellations; and yet our astronomical charts are still filled with them. These gods, goddesses and mythical hunters populate the heavens. In constellations, the past and the present co-exist; different planes of reality are brought together to form mythic shapes. There is only one single plane upon which these realities co-exist, and that is the plane of perception.
A representation is an exteriorization of perception, but also its negotiation into form; we make our marks upon the cave wall, and thereby project the perceptions we have of the world back on to the exterior world from which they came. In the process, they metamorphose.
Science and Magic.
Our first attempts at science appear to have been primarily magical. There was no distinction as yet between the scientific and the manipulative impulse. We placed ourselves in a relation with nature where rain could be summoned, fecundity guaranteed, sickness and death averted, or wishes fulfilled. There was often built into these procedures and ceremonies an acknowledgment of the nature of reality, even where the impulse was to overcome it. For example, the rain dance demonstrates an awareness that rain is a necessity if crops are to flourish. Therianthropic masks worn by spiritual agents of various sorts acknowledge a physical strength in animals which is not present to anything like the same degree in humans. Herbs initially used for their magical properties proved themselves efficacious in some cases; ineffective in others. So through experiment a therapy began to take shape, even an effective one. Magic can measure itself by results, just as experimental science can. We can, if we look hard enough, find the rudiments of some of our present practices there: a doctor still takes something from the earth and gives it to the patient for ingestion into the body, so as to avert or palliate illness. Drugs go 'on trial', and when they are deemed efficacious enough we call them 'wonder drugs'. We have undoubtedly shifted the nature of the correspondences, and their alignments one to another. With the demise of alchemy, we have looked increasingly to experiment and measurable results to dictate the nature of our science. Alchemy is the last moment when the magical is still permitted as a licit element of the genuinely scientific enterprise, and it is a moment that has a sort of afterlife in Newton, who would appear to have regarded force at a distance as an occult power, and who never gave up his alchemical experiments to the end of his life.
Already the plank and the pole no longer seem so far apart. What is it that the shaman is doing when he climbs his pole? The word shaman is derived from the word sorcerer in the Tungus language. A shaman could visit the land of the dead; bilocate; assume an animal form. A shaman would undergo a psychic vastation, a journey across the valley of death, and only after that would his control of the spirit world enable him to perform curative acts. Like Dante, he must first undergo the terrors of the Inferno before the paradisal state might be witnessed and vouchsafed…


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Hibernian can confirm that young goalkeeper Calum Antell has joined East Fife on loan until early January.
The 20-year-old has been an ever present amongst the substitutes for the first team so far this season - as back-up to Ben Williams.
Last season the Welshman spent a hugely successful loan stay with East Stirlingshire and ended up being voted the club's Player of the Year.
Now Antell says he is looking forward to gaining further experience during his spell in Methil.
Antell said: "I've enjoyed being part of the first team squad this season, but I missed playing on a regular basis.
"So I'm looking forward to getting some game-time under my belt at East Fife and coming back in January as a more experienced goalkeeper."
Antell joins left-back Scott Smith, who has extended his loan stay by a further month, and centre-half Jordon Forster, who is loan until January at New Bayview.
Antell will make his debut against Stenhousemuir tomorrow at Ochilview Park (kick off 3pm) and Stenny's keeper is Robbie Thomson - son of Calum's coach, Scott.


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