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Former White House spokesman and one of the president?s closest confidantes: Obama for America Campaign adviser, Robert Gibbs. Then, Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN). Finally, our roundtable: former Tennessee congressman, Harold Ford, Jr. (D); columnist for the Wall Street Journal Peggy Noonan; columnist for the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne; and host of CNBC?s Closing Bell, Maria Bartiromo.
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CANBERRA, Australia ? Thousands of people cheered and waved from the banks of the Australian capital's central lake as Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, took a motor boat to a flower show Thursday in their first public appearance of a 10-day tour of Australia.
The queen wore a lilac hat and coat and her husband a hat to protect against the late morning spring sunshine as they waved to well-wishers from the open boat beneath an almost cloudless sky. The couple, who arrived in Australia on Wednesday, appeared fresh despite the 11-hour time difference from their London home.
The fans who greeted the royal couple included Elizabeth Stewart, 83, who flew from her home in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, to see the monarch for the third time. Stewart first saw the queen when she visited New Zealand in 1954, less then two years after her coronation. The queen is the monarch of 16 countries, including Australia and neighboring New Zealand.
Stewart said she disagrees with the Australian government's position that the British monarch should be replaced as Australia's head of state by a president who is an Australian citizen.
"The queen gives us continuity," Stewart said. "Presidents come and go."
Nils Lantzke thinks Australia should have a president, but decided to come to Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin anyway with his alpaca, Honeycomb, which he takes to hospitals as pet therapy for patients.
"I'm not really interested in her as queen of Australia," Lantzke said. "If it was the king of Saudi Arabia who'd come to Canberra, I'd do the same ? make him feel welcome."
Canberra's annual flower show had been extended to accommodate the monarch's visit ? her 16th to Australia since 1954.
The queen will visit Brisbane and Melbourne before opening next week's meeting of the 54-nation Commonwealth in the western coastal city of Perth. Leaders of the nations linked to Britain's former empire, who meet every two years, will consider a range of recommended reforms, including lifting laws against homosexuality that exist in most Commonwealth countries.
The queen's arrival in Canberra late Wednesday was front page news in Australia's major newspapers on Thursday.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who argues the queen should be Australia's last monarch, and Chief Minister Katy Gallagher, the head of the Australian Capital Territory government, who agrees that Australia should become a republic, were questioned by reporters Thursday on why they had not curtsied when they greeted the queen on her arrival.
Both Gillard and Gallagher replied that protocol allowed them to bow and shake the queen's hand instead of curtsying.
"The advice to me was very clear that you can make a choice with what you feel most comfortable with; that's what I felt most comfortable with," Welsh-born Gillard told reporters.
Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the queen by curtsying.
Australians rejected a proposal to make Australia a republic at a referendum in 1999. Supporters of a republic were bitterly divided over various options for selecting a president. The Australian Capital Territory, where the queen will spend most of her current visit at the governor general's official residence, was the only state or territory to endorse a republic.
John Warhurst, deputy chairman of the Australian Republican Movement, which is leading the public campaign to change the constitution to create an Australian head of state, said the queen's popularity among Australians would probably doom another referendum to failure during her reign.
"We believe that she is a foreign dignitary first and foremost and Australia's head of state down the line," Warhurst said. "But it's hard to think of an international dignitary ... who's been around longer and has greater respect in the international community."
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In recent weeks, local police have been circulating predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods in Alabama, asking those standing on the street to go inside their homes or face arrest ? all because the state passed a law requiring police to be immigration agents.
During the past decade, as international terrorism became a subject of intense concern, Arab Americans and South Asian Americans have been spied upon, stopped, questioned and subjected to intensified inspection based on their racial characteristics rather than any evidence of wrongdoing.
And for more than a century, black men and women traveling through predominantly white neighborhoods have been questioned for no reason ? simply because police officers felt they didn?t belong there.
Before there was even a name for it, racial profiling has been engrained in our country?s law enforcement practices. But racial profiling not only goes against our Constitution and our country?s value for equality -- it also hinders law enforcement officials from doing an effective job.
For years, many of our political leaders have vowed to put an end to racial profiling. Attorney General Eric Holder has made it clear that ending the practice of racial profiling is a "priority" for the Obama administration. And certain members of Congress have echoed that sentiment, by introducing S. 1670, the End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 (ERPA), in the U.S. Senate on Oct. 6. The law also will be reintroduced in the House, and should receive bipartisan support.
The law would take concrete steps toward eliminating the practice of making a group of people subject to heightened scrutiny based on race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. ERPA is a laudable starting point, not a complete remedy, because the operational lines between legitimate practices and illegal profiling have become dangerously blurred at our borders, in our airports, and on our streets and freeways. It will take sustained vigilance to make these boundaries meaningful and to ensure that anyone violating them faces consequences.
Now is the time for us to come together and end this unlawful practice. Racial profiling is ineffective, erodes public trust in law enforcement and violates the Constitution. It has no place in American life.
In the coming days, through a blog series on ?The Three Faces of Racial Profiling,? it will become evident the damage that racial profiling has done to many Americans. At the core, racial profiling is about discrimination, not about keeping our communities or our country safe.
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LONDON ? Bank of England rate-setters voted unanimously this month to inject more money into the struggling British economy, marking a sharp turnaround in sentiment.
Minutes of the October meeting released Wednesday showed that all nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee authorized 75 billion pounds ($118 billion) in asset purchases from financial institutions in the face of a gloomy outlook.
"The available indicators suggested that the underlying rate of growth had moderated and would be close to zero in the fourth quarter," the minutes said. Household spending and exports had slowed and the panel noted concern about the impact of the eurozone's debt crisis.
Hinting that more stimulus may be on the way, the minutes showed that that members even discussed possibly splashing out 100 billion pounds during their deliberations on Oct. 5 and Oct. 6.
"We continue to expect at least another 75 billion pounds extension of the program in February, and perhaps considerably more thereafter," said Jonathan Loynes, chief European economist at Capital Economics.
A month earlier, American economist Adam Posen was alone in advocating the move, which the Bank hopes will boost the money circulating in the economy and get banks lending more.
Britain's economy grew by just 0.1 percent in the second quarter, while unemployment has risen to a 15-year peak of 8.1 percent and inflation is at a three-year high of 5.2 percent.
The Bank of England pumped 200 billion pounds into its so-called quantitative easing program between March 2009, when it also dropped its base rate to an all-time low of 0.5 percent, and January 2010.
A recent Bank of England report concluded that the earlier round of quantitative easing had a positive impact, though the magnitude was impossible to quantify.
"There appeared to be no strong reason to expect the economic effect of further asset purchases to be materially different, but their impact would need to be kept under review," the minutes said.
In a speech Tuesday night, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said the monetary stimulus would not solve underlying problems of indebtedness and an overlarge public sector.
"Providing liquidity to buy time to devise and put in place a coherent response to the underlying problem can be not only valuable but necessary," King said.
"Without monetary stimulus ? low interest rates and large asset purchases ? there is a risk that growth will stall and inflation fall below our symmetric 2 percent target," King added. "But easy monetary policy, by bringing forward spending from the future to the present, means that the ultimate adjustment of borrowing and spending will be even greater.
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BRUSSELS ? NATO said Tuesday it is considering ending its bombing campaign in Libya but the decision must consider the threat pro-Moammar Gadhafi fighters still pose to civilians.
Some have speculated that the North Atlantic Council, NATO's top decision-making body, will declare an end to the 7-month-old Libyan operation when it meets Wednesday.
But a diplomat said France and Britain have insisted that the bombing campaign continue until Libya's new authorities are able to assume responsibility for security nationwide. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity, given the sensitivity of the matter.
"We are very close to the end, but there are still threats to the civilian population," NATO spokesman Carmen Romero said Tuesday.
NATO warplanes have flown more than 9,500 strike sorties since the air attacks began March 19. They were initially conducted by a U.S.-led coalition, including France and Britain, but were taken over by the alliance at the end of March.
Still, only eight of NATO's 28 states took part in the actual strikes. Some diplomats expressed frustration at what they saw as an unnecessary distraction from NATO's main mission ? the war in Afghanistan.
Western leaders initially expected the Libyan air campaign to last just a few weeks. But despite being constantly pummeled from the air, Gadhafi's forces demonstrated unexpected resilience, forcing the alliance to repeatedly extend the campaign.
With armed opposition to the new Libyan authorities now limited to only a few towns, the alliance has scaled back the airstrikes, conducting an average of 15 a day in comparison to about 70 to 80 a day at the height of the campaign this summer.
Romero said the decision on ending the operation will be taken after the North Atlantic Council conducts a "careful and comprehensive" political and military analysis of the security situation.
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