Tragically, U.S. policy in the Muslim world continues to be too often driven by arrogance, ignorance, and special interest groups. Recently, the intemperate U.S. ambassador in Islamabad, in a fit of imperial hubris, actually called for air attacks on Pashtun leaders in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province.
Criminologists and scholars have been accepting the premise that there is a hate crime epidemic in the US of unprecedented proportions without questioning these claims critically. Many interest groups and articles use the term "epidemic" based on thin or contrary statistical reports. Claims that violence motivated by race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation has never been greater are patently false when one considers the historical treatment of African-Americans, Native Americans and others. US society is more intolerant of hate crimes today, but remedies should be based on accurate understandings of their prevalence.
[Stephen Walt] has written critically on "unconditional" U.S. support for Israel and on the pro-Israel lobby; [John J. Mearsheimer] was a signer and defender of a letter arguing that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might use the "fog of war" when the Iraq war began to "commit further crimes against the Palestinian people, up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing. Other special interest groups have managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions they favored, but no lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S and Israeli interests are essentially identical." They cast those efforts in overwhelmingly negative terms, citing the congressional and executive clout of group...
The historical connection between American religious groups and foreign relations was examined to determine the effects of such relationship. Results show that American religious interest groups and religious issues abroad have affected US foreign policy, but only in a minor way. Policymakers have been indirectly affected by serious religious ideas. Moreover, the domestic religious scene is significantly affected by major foreign policies.
I am sick and tired of the government, politicians and special interest groups skewing statistics to scare us or promote an agenda. In her Forum column, state Rep. Lonnie Reed says there has been a 20 percent increase cancer deaths since 1975, and blames chemicals and other so-called toxins. But according to information from the National Center of Health Statistics, in 1975 for people under age 65 the cancer death rate was 84 per 100,000 people. In 2005, that dropped to 60 per 100,000, probably due to medical advances. For the same period, the cancer death rate for those over age 65 stayed relatively flat at 1,000 per 100,000 people. It is obvious that the increased cancer deaths now are due to the U.S. population increase, not chemicals.
Less than a week after Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, special interest groups and political leaders in New Jersey are planning events they hope will influence the selection of her successor. Both sides of the abortion issue see the next justice as someone who could overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized the termination of pregnancies.
Interest groups from opposing sides all found something to like in the U.S. International Trade Commission's recently released study on imported milk protein concentrates. Milk protein concentrates are used as ingredients in a number of foods, but their unfettered importation has caused controversy within the U.S. dairy industry.
Public Choice economists have pointed out that in the political system, the people with a disproportionate influence are members of concentrated interest groups that have a lot at stake in an existing or proposed government program. Because U.S. sugar producers have so much at stake per person, they have a large voice in the process; sugar consumers (virtually all of us), though we lose only a little each, lose more in total from the restriction than sugar producers gain. The late Aaron Director, a law professor at the University of Chicago who helped create the field of law and economics, said it well in talking about Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal: "These young men who come to Washington to serve the public interest find, as if by an invisible hand, that they end up serving their own...
American politics has become so caustic that many engaged in it have become blind to the fact there are many goals shared by the two factions that hold good government hostage. Clear-thinking Americans - those not slavishly beholden to opinion polls and special- interest groups - understand that the overwhelming majority of us have more in common than not. The wise politico will harness the energy of opposite groups to achieve common goals. Let's take two issues involving a common goal that have supporters on the opposite ends of the political spectrum: alternative energy sources and energy independence.
We are very pleased to give [Joslyn M. Pettway] an opportunity to develop our new department of Primary Care Initiatives," [Chris Alien] said. "Her first major challenge will be to organize primary care services on Detroit's near east side. "We were very impressed with Joslyn's knowledge and ability to work among many different interest groups, which helped us achieve the near east side initiative," Alien added. In her new role, Pettway will be responsible for developing comprehensive networks of primary care in medically underserved areas of Detroit and Wayne County, establishing "medical homes" which provide a continuum of medical, dental, and mental health care, along with health promotion and disease prevention services.
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