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• King's daughter elected as first female SCLC leader• Issue of gay rights may dominate agendaShe is a firebrand baptist preacher at the forefront of American black politics, whether speaking at the Democratic National Convention, at which Barack Obama was nominated as presidential candidate, or as one of those chosen to eu (Read More)
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National Review Online:
While the most transparent administration in history continues to stonewall Congress on its legal theories for supporting a would-be dictator in Honduras, dismissing a civil-rights case against nightstick-wielding Black Panthers, and flouting the plain language of the Constitution on the D.C. Voting Rights Bill, it’s time o (Read More)
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Delegates from the American Bankers' Association are not accepting the blame for the crisis, despite demonstrations from those who think otherwiseAmerica's bankers may not agree on much. But on one issue, they are entirely united. They refuse to become humble whipping boys, taking the blame from an angry nation for the glob (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Bravo Geoffrey Wheatcroft for reviving the final, unattained demand of the Chartists – annual parliaments (More than ever, Britain needs the last Chartist reform, 20 October). It is also worth remembering that the desire for frequent elections goes back beyond the Victorian reformers. Georgian radicals, too, wanted universa (Read More)
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Don’t believe what you’ve seen in the movies. Malcom X wasn’t friendly with Martin Luther King, most anti-war protesters were just looking “to get laid,” and plenty of Americans lived through the whole decade without seeing a hippie, save on TV. Jonathan Leaf, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties, answer (Read More)
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WASHINGTON — He's not president, a Cabinet member or ambassador, but Sen. John Kerry has ascended to the unofficial role of President Barack Obama's global adviser on key issues that could reshape the nation's image around the world.Mediating Afghanistan's presidential election vaulted Kerry from the already prominent chair (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Your excellent editorial (14 October) missed one essential point about the so-called super-injunction to which you were subject: the order was unlawful.The courts are public authorities under the Human Rights Act. A court must exercise its remedial jurisdiction in a manner compatible with convention rights. In cases such as (Read More)
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Colorado Springs Gazette - News Headlines : News:
DENVER • Colorado Democrats plan to take another run at a bill that would provide reduced tuition to the children of illegal immigrants by creating a new class of tuition that would not require state subsidies.
Sen. Paula Sandoval, D-Denver, said... (Read More)
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By Andrew MeldrumBOSTON -- I was standing within a few feet of Robert Mugabe when he launched a vicious attack on Zimbabwe's gays.Mugabe's hateful vitriol, in which he denigrated gays as "worse than pigs and dogs," became one of the defining issues of his repressive rule. Before that moment I questioned whether gay rights w (Read More)
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The Republican National Committee released a new website on Tuesday that goes to great lengths to paint the party as open to minority interests.The most obvious example comes on the "Heroes" page. The RNC pinpoints 16 figures who were "Patriots: American Heroes & Famous Republicans." The list includes seven African-American (Read More)
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DENVER — A Colorado insurance company is changing its attitude about fat babies.Rocky Mountain Health Plans said Monday it will no longer consider obesity a "pre-existing condition" barring coverage for hefty infants. The change comes after the insurer turned down a Grand Junction 4-month-old who weighs about 17 poun (Read More)
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The best description of last year's presidential campaign came from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Trying to rally the troops at the Democratic convention, Patrick warned that "Democrats don't deserve to win just because Republicans deserve to lo... (Read More)
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CHICAGO — A Daley has run Chicago and its all-powerful Democratic political machine for 41 of the last 54 years, and despite a recent spate of bad publicity for the nation's third-largest city, Mayor Richard M. Daley shows no sign of relinquishing his throne.In office for 20 years and on track to surpass his legendary fathe (Read More)
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Martin Kettle on the youngest of the Kennedy brothers, whom time and tragedy made a patriarchTrue Compass: A Memoirby Edward M Kennedy, with Ron Powers 532pp, Little, Brown, £20As all the world knows, Joseph Kennedy had four sons. The first, Joseph Jr, was killed in action at 29 in 1944. The second, John, president of the U (Read More)
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Arianna Huffington seems very well connected in every sense of the phrase, be it in high society or in her online offspring, the Huffington Post. But can she hold on to her maverick approach and her instinct to 'bring people together'?A s far back as she can remember, Arianna Huffington says, she has liked to (Read More)
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