risk to military readiness. In 1981 Department of Defense (DOD) Directive 1332.14 clearly outlined that any “homosexual status is grounds for discharge” (Breza, 2007), regardless what the Crittenden report found. Then in 1993, President William J. Clinton passed a law that
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1950 to the 21st Century Constantinos Scaros Colorado Technical University President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal In 1998 President Bill Clinton was questioned about several allegations that he had harassed and/or had sexual relationships with women that worked under him. He became the first President to ever be involved in questioning as a civil defendant. In the testimony both President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky denied having a sexual relationship, though there were tapes found of
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Dowd and Friedman’s Strengths Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd have covered numerous subjects in the articles I read. The articles these writers produce have exceptionally interesting making it obvious as to why there opinions are so highly valued. Some of the issues they chose to cover were unique due to the little coverage put out by the mass media. Certain aspects of Friedman and Dowd’s articles have stuck out to me and shown me why their articles are so widely read. One part of Dowd I
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This is using subjective fallacy creating a rhetorical double hitter, especially in an election year. No mention about the immigration bill currently sitting in Congress held up by a majority that do not approve. Another point not mentioned, hidden by smoke screens of ongoing rhetoric is there are other recent presidents, President Ragan, and President Clinton that passed sweeping immigration reform. The whole argument given by the author is based on False Dilemma Fallacy that has no bases.
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employer and an employee could be denied for any reason; employees could also be fired for taking leave. There was no consistency amongst employers. This act was vetoed twice by President George Bush and FMLA was finally signed into law by President Bill Clinton in February of 1993 but didn‘t take effect until August. The requirements for FMLA are the employee must: work for a covered employer; have worked for the employer for at least one year and 1250 hours during that year; the employment does
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Samantha Caulder Assignment 6 The Year of the Shark and Other Fairy Tales the News Groups Told Me It is impossible to tell what would really be the greatest story to be followed by news groups in any year where there is little of earth shattering news; the indications are that many of the old standbys would dominate the news. It seemed that terror seemed to dominate the news before and after 9/11. During the news cycles during the year 2001, the same recurring themes seemed to dominate
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University of Phoenix Detecting Media Bia HUM/114 The reported story of President Obama abandoning his campaign in Florida to deal with the state officials along the Atlantic Coast in wake of Hurricane Sandy was not clear but seems to be accurate. The information that was given from MSN.com did not seem to have enough depth. The story was short, but it seemed to lack what steps other than generators, food and water will be provided if needed. The areas that are currently being affected are
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Senator Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United State. During the election, there was this first lady, named Hillary Rodham Clinton, who expressed her interest in the presidential election of 2008. Until then, in the history of presidential election in United State, none of the woman had ever won the major party nomination. Well-educated Hillary Clinton had a good experience of public service and managing the Oval office. She emerged as a dedicated and hard working lady from the American
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WSJ Response: Congress Returns To Battle on Taxes With 2012 underway, congressional leaders are already in the midst of a debate on how to handle the payroll tax. Though the tax is widely considered popular among both Republicans and Democrats, the Democratic controlled congress are both holding strong and not appearing to back down. Though an election year is usually a time in which the productivity of both houses of congress is at an all time low, Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire in 2013
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The article of controversial bills signed based of abortion would have two supporting topics. The first is abortion in its own and the second being the leadership of the governor. Through these two topics, it shows how the governor had signed the bills for abortion in Wisconsin in secrecy. The bill consists of multiple parts of procedures the doctor needs to perform before following through with the abortion. One bill is that doctors need to ask the patient alone if they want the abortion or if they
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