On issue after issue of concern to traditional-values voters -- the sanctity of life, California's Proposition 22 defending marriage against homosexual redefinition, a pro-family tax code, judges who respect the Constitution, a strong national defense -- Senator McCain has stood firm.
You want to make your rightness on that issue the issue of this election.
Still, when McNamee's lawyers first revealed that McNamee had turned over physical evidence to federal authorities, much of the attention was on the DNA issue; the issue of potential fingerprints — an old-fashioned concept compared to the high-tech nature of DNA testing — was largely ignored, except by bloggers.
I expressed to students that with ∼300 students, there would be a lot of accounting, and I always wanted them to alert me to any recording errors in keeping track of the grades they had earned; however, I expected our one-on-one conversations to be focused on issues of learning and issues in biology.
"We have had a regular dialogue with the vice president on a wide range of issues, on issues that are our priorities," said John J. Sweeney, president of the labor federation.
The national-bird question was not, in those symbol-building days of the eighteenth century, the only instance in which issues of food touched on issues of freedom.
"All I can do is continue to campaign on issues around education and on issues of gun crime for the benefit of a whole generation of young men in our inner cities".
QUESTION FROM ESTER JL: The Tea Party has steered away from addressing specific issues, as it focuses more on issues of limited government and economics.
In the first public comment by a United States official about the controversy, John V. Hanford, the administration's top-ranking official on issues of religious freedom, took issue with President Jacques Chirac's call for legislation to prevent the wearing of head scarves for Muslim girls, large crosses for Christians and skullcaps for Jewish boys.
"E.P.A. has nearly 18,000 employees, and all of them are free to — and many do — publicly express their views on issues of the day, including issues that are central to E.P.A.'s mission," Scott Fulton, the agency's general counsel, said in a statement.
Traditionally, economists have focused less on issues of equality than on the more mundane issues of growth and efficiency.
