Along with Gingrich, Santorum supports "personhood" amendments, laws decreeing that a fertilized egg has the same rights under the United States constitution as those of us who happen to live outside the womb.
Charges against him range from "membership of a terrorist organization" for saying "the PKK are not terrorists", to violating constitutional laws decreeing that "everyone who lives in Turkey is a Turk".
Reprints Related items Europe's emissions-trading scheme: CompressedNov 30th 2006 Organic clothing: How green is your wardrobe?Nov 30th 2006 Monitoring the environment: The pulse of the planetNov 30th 2006The Supreme Court may give a mixed ruling, decreeing that carbon dioxide is indeed a pollutant, but one the EPA is free to ignore or regulate as it pleases.
Yet, from a purely economic standpoint, it will almost never be true that a perfectly balanced budget or, for that matter, any one, fixed target for government accounts will be the best solution.That has not stopped America from considering a new balanced-budget act, or the European Commission from decreeing that the budget deficits of its members must not exceed 3% of their respective GDPs.
In Norway, legislation has been passed decreeing that by the end of 2006 all companies must have at least two women on their boards.
The new laws also seek to tighten existing legislation on affirmative action, decreeing that black South Africans must constitute at least 60% of senior management by 2017, up from 26% at present.
It involves the strengthening of such democratic institutions as legislatures and local government, at the expense of all-powerful presidents, capable of decreeing market-opening reform from above.
He took the unusual and unprecedented step of decreeing that people who had been captured and enslaved by his predecessors could go back to their homes and that the statues of their various gods should be returned to their original shrines to be freely worshipped.
And many economists are rightly suspicious about any professional body decreeing what should constitute acceptable lines of inquiry for economists or how economists ought to apply the fruits of their knowledge.
The former king, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, shocked his people in late 2006 by stepping down, decreeing the establishment of democracy and handing over to his son, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk.
Palestinian leaders condemned an American spending bill, signed by George Bush, decreeing that no money could be spent on official documents mentioning Israel unless they also identified Jerusalem as its capital.
