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6 Dec 2008, 8:06 pm
Nearly 30 years after President Jimmy Carter signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United States remains the only democracy that refuses to ratify the most significant treaty guaranteeing gender equality. [read post]
3 Dec 2008, 7:34 am
This treaty has been signed by several Presidents (including President Jimmy Carter in 1980) but has never reached the Senate floor. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 1:55 am
For Obama, one important cautionary example would be Jimmy Carter. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 7:48 am
He passed up President Jimmy Carter's term as a chance to retire. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 1:49 am
In part this concern explains why some of Jimmy Carter's post-Presidential peace efforts have been controversial, and why the more common pattern for ex-Presidents is some combination of extremely lucrative after-dinner speaking and uncontroversial charitable works. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 8:28 pm
Among the write in votes were those who really ran for president or vice-president during the long primary campaign: Sen. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 4:26 pm
Unless Obama is Jimmy Carter, that seems to me to seal the deal. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 9:35 pm
He has also served as a member of the Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, the Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling, and the Election Assistance Commission's Board of Advisors. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 3:54 pm
Civiletti, a Baltimore lawyer who served as U.S. attorney general under President Jimmy Carter. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 9:06 pm
There is historical precedent and no, not just Jimmy Carter, but George H.W. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 1:00 am
The deregulation movement that we currently have in the United States began in the late 1970s under the Jimmy Carter administration. [2] With the notion that less government intervention allowed the market to do what it was supposed to and foster more growth, deregulation spread from the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 to telecommunications, and later banking and financial markets. [3] Many now say the consequence of allowing the financial markets to go unregulated was the impetus… [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 10:37 pm
Bush (go figure), Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon.So I say, the woman to keep your eye on is Kathleen Sebelius, the Democratic Governor of Kansas.Yesterday, Sebelius was named the first woman to head the Democratic Governors Association, which is tasked with, among other things, helping other Dems get elected nationally and taking back the White House in 2008. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 2:50 pm
Since the Jimmy Carter administration, the U.S. attorney appointee has come from Lake or Porter counties and the office is based in Hammond. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 1:55 am
There were no vacancies on the Court during Jimmy Carter's single term, and Bill Clinton got only two appointments during his first term. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 1:51 pm
I truly believe that each of those men, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter even, really believed in the specialness (?) [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 9:55 am
" Skowroneck numbers among these James Buchanan, Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter. [read post]
27 Oct 2008, 1:00 pm
President Jimmy Carter, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa,Pope Benedict XVI as well as the Parliament of the European Union have allcalled his trial and death sentence a miscarriage of justice.Davis was convicted in 1991 of the murder of a white Savannah off-dutypoliceman, Mark Allen McPhail, based solely on eyewitness testimony. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 4:37 pm
Since Davis' trial, seven of nine key prosecution witnesses have recanted their testimony.The defendant's claims of innocence have drawn opposition to his execution from leaders across the globe, including former President Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI.Davis' lawyers expressed relief and jubilation over the court's decision. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 11:39 am
Clinton won two of these, and Carter, who received a mere 50.1% of the popular vote, won the other, running against Gerald Ford who received harsh criticism for pardoning Richard Nixon. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 11:06 am
Circuit Court ofAppeals ordered defense attorneys and prosecutors to draft briefs that address whether Davis can meet "stringentrequirements" to pursue the next round of appeals.Davis' supporters have called for a new trial because seven of the nine key witnesses against him have recanted theirtestimony, and the doubts about his guilt have won him the support of former President Jimmy Carter and otherprominent advocates. [read post]
