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Free Speech at risk in lefty, McGovernite Mass.?
While many alt weeklies around the country have cutting back staff and sliding towards irrelevance even before, the Boston Phoenix, bucks the trend. Their cover this week is their 11th annual “Muzzle awards”, exposing New England’s worst offenders when it comes to attacking the First Amendment. … Continue reading
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LAT on White House’s faith based initiative and alleged abuses to implement it
Johanna Newman at her Los Angeles Times White House blog, “Faith or Cronyism in the White House Faith-Based Initiative?” : The White House faith-based initiative is in the news again. The program has been controversial from the start — derided … Continue reading
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David Addington’s testimony on the Unitary Theory of the Presidency: It’s good to clear all of this up!
From a Washington Post account of Addington’s testimony: When John Conyers (D-Mich.) inquired about Addington’s pet legal concept, a “unitary executive theory” that confers extreme powers on the president, Addington dished out disdain. “I frankly don’t know what you mean … Continue reading
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DOJ Official Who Took the Fifth Fired
Last week, when the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform held a hearing into the politicization of the Department of Justice’s quarter of a billion dollar grant program, one DOJ official, Michelle DeKonty, refused to testify, citing her Fifth … Continue reading
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Former White House faith-base official received grant with help from former colleagues
A new story posted today on ABCNews.com– that I wrote and reported with Anna Schecter– about a grant awarded to a former White House official in part thanks to the role some of her former colleagues in the Bush administration … Continue reading
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Memo to Bob Woodward: Disclose your speaking fees.
Deborah Howell, the ombudsman at the Washington Post, weighed in this morning about Bob Woodward’s and David Brooder’s extracurricular activities as buckakers– speaking to corporate and political groups with an interest in their work, without disclosing details of the fees … Continue reading
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House hearing on DOJ contracting: One witness testifies; another takes the Fifth.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform this morning held a hearing on alleged favoritism in the awarding of grants by the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). While Robert Flores testified at length, his … Continue reading
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The Price of Political Favoritism and Cronyism: Lost Lives and Teenage Suicides
In the broader scheme of things, the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is a fairly obscure agency. By law its core missions are to decrease the disproportional numbers of minority children incarcerated, prevent teenage delinquency, … Continue reading
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John McCain’s branding problems
This Bob Herbert column transcends politics and the war in Iraq, to touch on something more universal. Today’s must read. Curveball talks. And Paul West of the Baltimore Sun has the best analysis I have seen so far about John … Continue reading
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Is Congress close to a deal on FISA?
Congressional Quarterly says that is the case. Of course we have been led to believe this before.
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