"If I think my wife should obey me and my religion teaches me so and I take a swing at her, then I've committed a hate crime, " rather than domestic violence.

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If I get an order from my superiors - which I have gotten from time to time, which I received in Iraq - that I think is a blatantly flawed order, I don't have to blindly obey it.

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"I hate this agreement, " said Rep. David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the Appropriations Committee.

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"I hate this agreement, " said Rep. David Obey (D-WI), who heads the Appropriations Committee.

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Then again, I often listen to music, most surely have to deal with rain and drink plenty of coffee, all while managing to obey the rules of the road and, I'd argue anyway, drive defensively.

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But that night in 2007, and in the months after, I lost a sense of hope in our government's ability to make its own agents obey the law.

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Of course I still maintain that with the ethanol mandate, the VEETC is redundant because it merely pays oil companies to obey the law.

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