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President Obama has failed to transfer 166 detainees out of Guantanamo. (New York Times)
Is he responsible for this failure?
Is the President responsible for the constraints in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 (preventing transfer of detainees to the U.S. and introducing conditions for transfer to foreign countries)?
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Whether the following qualifies slavery as the "principal" cause of the Civil War is a matter of some subjectivity, but we can determine that slavery was the primary reason for the South's secession.
In his book The creation of Confederate nationalism: ideology and identity in the Civil War South, historian Drew Gilpin Faust explains:
leaders of the ...
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The "80 times more often" figure comes from a single study: "Kleck and Gertz:Armed resistance to crime: The prevalence and nature of self defense with a gun. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1995 (Fall); 86:150–187", in which the authors estimated that there were 2.5 million occasions per year in which a gun was used in self-defense.
Here is a brief ...
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The Department of Homeland Security responded in a statement released to the U.S. News and World Report.
DHS told Whispers it regularly fills all of its goods and services requirements at one time because it's cheaper for the agency, and that the 1.6 billion number was misleading because the language of DHS's purchase said it would need "up to" a certain ...
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"For fiscal year 2013, it will cost an estimated $5.9 billion to operate Congress and the rest of the legislative branch. Salaries and benefits alone account for more than $2.5 billion of that sum."1,2
That number has been revised downward for 2013 to $5.64 billion, and is estimated for 2014 to be $5.8 billion.3
I'll look at the revised 2013 numbers for ...
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No. Federal deficits are caused by federal spending, not by personal or corporate spending, nor by spending by state or local governments. The only way the federal deficit could be eliminated due to a reduction in health care costs would be if the reduction in health-care spending by the federal government exceeded the amount of the deficit.
According to ...
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In the USA, it certainly makes at least a minor difference. There is a running theme on Jalopnik of stories like this
They apparently couldn't start it. I had to tell him four different
times to push in the clutch, because it's a standard transmission.
My first thought was I guess we don't have driver's ed in school
anymore because no one knows ...
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