Month / February 8, 2010
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State of the Union, Environment Edition
While President Obama spent most of his recent State of the Union address (full speech here) focusing on jobs, the budget, and health care (and rightly so), he also spent a good amount of time discussing environmental concerns. He made some positive remarks about the need to pass an energy and climate bill, but also…
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Switzerland: Minarets and Immigration
Back on November 29, 2009, Swiss voters turned out for a national referendum and overwhelmingly opted to ban all further construction of minarets throughout the country. 19.5 of the 23 cantons that comprise Switzerland voted for the ban, which does not apply to the four minarets already constructed and existing in Switzerland, but prohibits further…
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