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The Bush Administration, sex and the moral agenda considers White House policy towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-sex marriage. The book suggests that although accounts have often emphasised the ties between George W. Bush and the Christian right, the administration's strategy was, at least until early 2005, also directed towards the courting of middle ground opinion. This study offers a detailed and comprehensive survey of policy-making; assesses the political significance of moral concerns; evaluates the role of the Christian right, and throws new light on Geo
Bush, George W. --- United States --- Moral conditions. --- Politics and government --- Social policy --- Bush administration. --- Bush presidency. --- Christian right. --- George W. Bush. --- abortion. --- middle-ground opinion. --- obscenity. --- policy making. --- same-sex marriage. --- sex education.
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"Meeting students' basic needs - including ensuring they have access to nutritious meals and a sense of belonging and connection to school - can positively influence students' academic performance. Recognizing this connection, schools provide resources in the form of school meals programs, school nurses, and school guidance counselors. However, these resources are not always available to students and are not always prioritized in school reform policies, which tend to focus more narrowly on academic learning. This book is about the balancing act that schools and their teachers undertake to respond to the social, emotional, and material needs of their students in the context of standardized testing and accountability policies. Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Students' Needs explores the factors that both enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet students' needs and the consequences of how schools organize this work on teachers' labor and students' learning"--
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Is Leo Strauss truly an intellectual forebear of neoconservatism and a powerful force in shaping Bush administration foreign policy? The Truth about Leo Strauss puts this question to rest, revealing for the first time how the popular media came to perpetuate such an oversimplified view of such a complex and wide-ranging philosopher. More important, it corrects our perception of Strauss, providing the best general introduction available to the political thought of this misunderstood figure. Catherine and Michael Zuckert-both former students of Strauss-guide readers
Political science --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Strauss, Leo. --- famous person, history, historical, well known, philosopher, philosophy, politics, political, america, american, democracy, government, poli sci, neoconservatism, conservative, bush, administration, foreign policy, media, misunderstood, myth, analysis, explanation, ancient, modern, nihilism, relativism, strength, weakness, heidegger, nietzsche, contemporary, crisis, postmodern, republic.
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""Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" explores the topic of mental illness in the military"--.
USA --- Afghanistan. --- All-Volunteer Force. --- American military strategy. --- Army Family Covenant. --- Army. --- Bush administration. --- Combat Stress Control doctrine. --- Department of Veterans Affairs. --- Gulf War. --- Iraq War. --- Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. --- Iraq. --- Joshua Omvig Suicide Prevention Act. --- Mental Health Assessment Teams. --- Veterans’ Suicide Prevention Hotline. --- asymmetrical warfare. --- behavioral health protocols. --- blast waves. --- deployments. --- firearms. --- mental health diagnoses. --- mental health issues. --- mental health. --- mentoring. --- military families. --- military. --- peacekeeping deployments. --- post-traumatic stress disorder. --- primary care. --- psychological consequences. --- public health. --- resilience. --- stigma. --- suicide prevention efforts. --- suicide rate. --- suicide risk factors. --- traumatic brain injury. --- veteran suicide.
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In this searing indictment of current administration policy, Charles Tiefer, a distinguished scholar of national legal affairs and former solicitor of the House of Representatives, argues that President George W. Bush methodically manipulates the law to promote right-wing causes. The beneficiaries of these machinations range from frontline pro-weapon and anti-women's rights groups to major industries that profit from lax environmental standards and military intervention in resource-rich regions. Accessibly written, legally rigorous, and meticulously documented, Veering Right demonstrates how the administration's already-ample arsenal for accomplishing ideological goals was expanded with weapons such as Attorney General John Ashcroft's social crusades and the polarizing 2004 election campaign. Tiefer lays out a compelling case for how the administration consistently erects barriers to media and congressional oversight that might expose covert motivations to public scrutiny. With an eye on the future, the White House is building a durable and potentially dominant machine for pursuing ideological goals by awarding lifetime judgeships and by exchanging favors for campaign funding. This book presents eye-opening evidence that ultra-conservatives could achieve previously unimaginable successes during a second Bush term. As a former Solicitor of the House of Representatives, Tiefer possesses a wealth of insight gleaned from decades of no-holds-barred investigations and judicial struggles. His wide-ranging perspective takes into account cultural changes, constitutional issues, partisan and electoral developments, and political personalities. The most exhaustive analysis to date of the Bush administration's real agenda, this book provides a rare insider's view of the strategic, devious, and potentially overpowering ways that presidents make ideological use of the law. Veering Right Documents How * President Bush's secrecy and deception undermined the democratic process by misleading Congress and the public about international and domestic matters ranging from doctored Iraq weapons intelligence to covered-up drug maker subsidies paid for by seniors * Bush's first term lays the groundwork for even more extreme right wing policies if he is re-elected. This agenda includes tilting the nation's tax structure against the middle class in Democratic states, weakening traditional Medicare by concentrating rising costs on poorer and sicker seniors, and exporting jobs via the trade fast track * John Ashcroft used religiosity and race-baiting to build his political career and, after 9/11, blocked questioning of his abuses-ranging from concealed undermining of the Bill of Rights to promoting the intolerance of the religious right-by labeling it as suspicious and even treasonous * Bush turned the public's reaction after 9/11 away from the logical Saudi suspects and against Iraq in a spectacular double-play to push his agenda in the world's oil patch * Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton and her crew of lawyer-lobbyists ran the public's resources and its pollution controls like a candy store for pariah industries * Bush's domestic legal gambits around big money paid off in 2004 with a historical gross campaign war chest as a quid pro quo for favors rendered * The Bush Administration dismantled international legal regimes ranging from arms control and women's rights to global climate control and international tobacco regulation * Bush's unilateralist alienation of potential support abroad hobbled both the Iraq occupation and the effort against terrorism
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1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe. This updated edition contains a new afterword with the most recent evidence on the 1990 origins of NATO's post-Cold War expansion.
World politics --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization --- Membership. --- Europe --- Europe --- History --- Politics and government --- 1989. --- Allied Control Commission. --- Berlin Wall. --- Berlin wall. --- Berlin. --- Bush administration. --- Cold War. --- East German dissident movements. --- East Germany. --- European Community. --- European home. --- Four Powers. --- German states. --- German unification. --- Gorbachev. --- Hans-Dietrich Genscher. --- Helmut Kohl. --- James A. Baker III. --- Mikhail Gorbachev. --- NATO expansion. --- NATO reform. --- NATO. --- USSR. --- West German Basic Law. --- Western standards. --- architecture. --- blueprints. --- building permits. --- confederationism. --- domestic institutions. --- four-power control. --- heroic model. --- ideas. --- institutional-transfer model. --- international economic institutions. --- international institutions. --- international military institutions. --- models. --- multinationalism. --- new Europe. --- nondemocratic regimes. --- old order. --- post-Cold War Europe. --- post-Cold War. --- power. --- prefab model. --- prefabricated institutions. --- property pluralism. --- restoration model. --- revivalist model. --- socialism. --- state leaders. --- state sovereignty. --- transatlantic architecture.
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In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation-especially for women. The first book to examine how Iraqi women have fared since the invasion, What Kind of Liberation? reports from the heart of the war zone with dire news of scarce resources, growing unemployment, violence, and seclusion. Moreover, the book exposes the gap between rhetoric that placed women center stage and the present reality of their diminishing roles in the "new Iraq." Based on interviews with Iraqi women's rights activists, international policy makers, and NGO workers and illustrated with photographs taken by Iraqi women, What Kind of Liberation? speaks through an astonishing array of voices. Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt correct the widespread view that the country's violence, sectarianism, and systematic erosion of women's rights come from something inherent in Muslim, Middle Eastern, or Iraqi culture. They also demonstrate how in spite of competing political agendas, Iraqi women activists are resolutely pressing to be part of the political transition, reconstruction, and shaping of the new Iraq.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Women --- Women's rights --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Rights of women --- Human rights --- Women. --- Political activity --- Social conditions. --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Women in politics --- Iraq War, 2003 --- -Human females --- -Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- 21st century american history. --- 21st century iraqi history. --- activism. --- bush administration. --- gender studies. --- government and governing. --- growing unemployment. --- human condition. --- international policy. --- iraq. --- iraqi women activists. --- iraqi women. --- islam. --- middle east. --- middle eastern politics. --- muslim. --- new iraq. --- ngo workers. --- political. --- president bush. --- president george w bush. --- scarce resources. --- seclusion. --- sectarianism. --- united states of america. --- violence. --- war and gender. --- war in iraq. --- war zone. --- warfare. --- womens rights activists. --- womens rights. --- Social conditions
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Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, "Kill me!" Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001-and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies, abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the present, providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the past seven years and where we are now headed.
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