GOP Plans To Use Blagojevich Against Holder
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Michael Moore In Legal Trouble With War Photographer
Michal Moore is about to be sued by a celebrated war photographer over his online use of an image. Independent correspondent Michael Yon took a photo , voted by Time readers the top photo of 2005, of a soldier cradling a bloody, injured Iraqi girl who died shortly thereafter.
Julian E. Zelizer: Zelizer’s Book Corner: Frank Lambert’s Religion in American Politics
When Reverend Rick Warren handles the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration next week, the day after we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, many Democrats will be disappointed and hurt, even with the recent announcement that the progressive minister Sharon Watkins will give the sermon at the national prayer service on the day following the inauguration. When Obama selected Warren, an outspoken social conservative — who supported the campaign against gay marriage in California and has made numerous disparaging comments about homosexuals and women — to give the invocation at the inauguration, many of Obama’s supporters were furious
You Can’t Fire Me, I’m Drunk!
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru’s top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision that was criticized by the government on Wednesday for setting a dangerous precedent. The Constitutional Tribunal ordered that Pablo Cayo be given his job back as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, which fired him for being intoxicated at work
Due To Obama, Pentagon Planning Faster Iraq Withdrawal
WASHINGTON — Military commanders are drawing up plans for a faster withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in anticipation that President-elect Barack Obama will reject current proposals as too slow, Pentagon and military officials said Wednesday. The new plans would provide alternatives to a timetable drawn up by the top American commanders for Iraq to bring troops home more slowly than Mr
Obamas Move Into Blair House, One Step Closer To The White House
The Obamas are moving one step closer to the White House. On Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama and his family will move into Blair House, which traditionally serves as a temporary home for incoming presidents and their families, just five days before they move into their official residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Emma Ruby-Sachs: 1996 Obama Questionnaire Reveals a Move Away From Equality
The junior senator from Illinois broke into the national scene after a speech given at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. But for those living in Illinois, and especially for those living in Chicago, he was a man with a political history.
Obama And Biden’s Fireside Chat With Supreme Court Justices; Alito Skips It
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph Biden visited the Supreme Court late Wednesday afternoon for a highly private, hourlong courtesy call that included chatting around a Court fireplace with eight of the nine justices. Continuing the occasional practice of pre-inaugural visits by incoming presidents and vice presidents to the high court in recent decades, Obama and Biden arrived at 3:45 p.m
Bush Launches Post-Presidential Office
President Bush is naming a high-powered staff to launch him on a productive post-presidency that, at least at first, will be busy behind the scenes and quiet on the surface. The Office of George W
Howard Dean Says Goodbye In Letter
Howard Dean, outgoing chair of the Democratic National Committee, wrote a letter saying goodbye to supporters. The full text: Four years ago, I became chairman with a mandate for bottom-up reform — grow the Democratic Party in your neighborhood and every other community in America.
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