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In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King — RAW STORY — In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power …
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GORE BLASTS BUSH FOR 'DANGEROUS BREACH' — Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. — Congressman Barr and I have disagreed many times over the years, but we have joined together today with thousands of our fellow citizens-Democrats and Republicans alike-to express our shared concern that America's Constitution is in grave danger.
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Los Angeles Times:
The perils of unchecked power — A former attorney general remembers the bugging of Martin Luther King Jr. — THE RECENT controversy over warrantless national security telephone taps, coupled with Martin Luther King's birthday, remind me of my time in the Department of Justice in the 1960s.
Houston Chronicle:
A man without borders — Martin Luther King's appeal for peace with justice is as relevant as ever in our troubled world. — Although he rose to national prominence fighting racial segregation in the South, many of the issues roiling the United States 38 years after his assassination would be very familiar to Martin Luther King Jr.
ACLU:
Invokes Wiretapping of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on National Holiday in Celebration of His Life — NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today ran a full-page advertisement in the Washington Post criticizing the president for authorizing the National Security Agency to engage in illegal surveillance of Americans.
Taylor Branch / New York Times:
Globalizing King's Legacy — OFFICIAL celebrations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday turn 20 years old this week. — Like that of Dr. King's late colleague Rosa Parks, the name behind our 10th national holiday carries more resonance than impact - noble, universal, yet bounded by race and time.
Thomas Lifson / The American Thinker:
Is a fake staged photo fit to print? What if it staged in a way that makes the US forces fighting the War on Terror look cruel and ineffective? The evidence argues that yes, it can run, and in a prominent position - at least in the case of the New York Times website.
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Maha / The Mahablog:18 Deaths Cancelled! — Rightie blogger Thomas Lifson …
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Update 2: Feinstein Warns Against Alito Filibuster — A Democrat who plans to vote against Samuel Alito sided on Sunday with a Republican colleague on the Senate Judiciary Committee in cautioning against a filibuster of the Supreme Court nominee. — "I do not see a likelihood of a filibuster …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:Alito Hearings Unsettle Some Prevailing Wisdom About the Politics of Abortion
Jeanne Cummings / Wall Street Journal:The High-Court Battle That Never Was
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Suzanne C. Ryan / Boston Globe:
The vanishing anchorman — The number of male newscasters on TV has reached an all-time low. What's the story? — In the television news industry, a good man is getting hard to find. — The numbers say as much: After dominating TV news for decades, male anchors are now in the minority nationwide …
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Mary Anastasia O'Grady / Opinion Journal:
The Tehran-Caracas Axis — Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are more than just pen pals. — With Iranian nuclear aspirations gaining notice, it's worth directing attention to the growing relationship between Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez.
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David Hammer / Associated Press:
GOP Hopes Ney Removal Will Aid Reform — WASHINGTON - The House Republican leadership has achieved its goal of separating Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), the committee chairman implicated in a burgeoning scandal, from GOP efforts to change how Congress interacts with lobbyists and their clients.
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Associated Press:
Rice Again Rules Out 2008 White House Run — Not even a vote of confidence from Laura Bush can change Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's mind about running for president in 2008. — Before leaving for Africa, the first lady predicted the United States soon would have a female president _ a Republican, and maybe even Rice.
Howard W. French / New York Times:
Girl, 13, Dies as Police Battle Chinese Villagers — SHANGHAI, Jan. 16 - A week of protests by villagers in China's southern industrial heartland exploded into violence over the weekend with thousands of police officers brandishing automatic weapons and using electric batons to put down the rally , residents of the village said today.
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BBC:
Iran to host debate on Holocaust — Iran says it will hold a conference to assess the scale and consequences of the Holocaust, which its president recently described as a "myth". — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also sparked international condemnation by calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map", or moved to Europe or the US.
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John Byrne / rawstory.com:
GOP website appears to flout law, lists nonpartisan, nonprofit groups as supporters — It's an open secret in Washington: Nonprofit doesn't always mean nonpartisan. — But RAW STORY has found that the Republican National Committee lists a panoply of conservative nonprofits as "GOP groups" …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
President Tells Insurers to Aid Ailing Medicare Drug Plan — With tens of thousands of people unable to get medicines promised by Medicare, the Bush administration has told insurers that they must provide a 30-day supply of any drug that a beneficiary was previously taking …
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Group Seeks I.R.S. Inquiry of Two Ohio Churches — A group of religious leaders has sent a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service requesting an investigation of two large churches in Ohio that they say are improperly campaigning on behalf of a conservative Republican running for governor.
New York Sun:
Cisneros Probe Stirred Worries Of Democrats — WASHINGTON - A long-awaited report detailing an independent counsel investigation of a former secretary of housing and urban development, Henry Cisneros, outlines a coordinated effort by Clinton administration officials to first block and then limit …
Stephen Moore / Opinion Journal:
Boehner, Blunt or Shadegg? — Conservatives now have a chance to take back the House. — "We're going to find out whether Republicans have an appetite for a substantial reform agenda against pork spending, out-of-control budgets and deal-making politics as usual in this town."
