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USA Today
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President Bush on Tuesday defended his decision to commute the "severe" prison sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby and would not rule out the prospects of an eventual pardon for the former White House aide.
Bush said he felt that the jury verdict again..
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CNN
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President Bush's decision to spare I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from prison puts Bush himself under suspicion of a cover-up in the CIA leak case, the husband of the operative whose name was leaked said Tuesday.
"The president, by commuting Mr. Libby's sen..
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BBC News
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US Democrats have expressed outrage at President Bush's decision to commute the prison sentence given to former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the move showed Mr Bush condoned criminal conduct, and Hillary Clint..
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Seattle Pi
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ridiculed Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday for saying Britain's decision to pull troops from Iraq is a good sign that fits with the strategy for stabilizing the country. Obama, speaking at a massive ou..
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www.au.org
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State today lauded a Georgia public school board’s decision to drop its defense of anti-evolution disclaimers for science textbooks...
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Lew Rockwell
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The first court decision (.pdf) to interpret and apply the legislative atrocity known as the "Military Commissions Act of 2006" was issued yesterday in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. The decision was a major victory for the Bush administration's attem..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush has defended his decision not to send troops to the Sudanese region of Darfur, despite what he calls a genocide taking place there.
He called it a "seminal decision" not to intervene with force, taken partly out of the desire..
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SF Gate
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson overruled the unanimous opinion of his legal and technical staff in blocking California's effort to cut greenhouse gases from cars and trucks - a new revelation that California officials say sh..
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SF Gate
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The state's civil rights commission tabled a controversial decision today about whether to fire its staff of expert attorneys and rely instead on state lawyers, as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration has requested.
The issue had put the state's..
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Washington Post
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South Carolina's Republican Party will move its 2008 presidential primary forward to Jan. 19, sources said yesterday, a decision almost certain to spark a cascade of calendar changes that could push the start of voting to New Year's Day or even to before..
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New York Times
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President Bush’s decision to commute the sentence of I. Lewis Libby Jr. was the act of a liberated man — a leader who knows that, with 18 months left in the Oval Office and only a dwindling band of conservatives still behind him, he might as well do w..
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USA Today
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President Bush late Monday commuted the jail sentence given former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the CIA leak case, a decision that pleased Libby's conservative defenders and enraged top Democrats.
Bush's decision — made without a formal..
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Alter Net
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A 5-4 decision guts the vital Brown vs. Board of Education case that attempted to desegregate public schools.
In a 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday, the Supreme Court told local school districts that they cannot take even..
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BBC News
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Prince Harry will be deployed to Iraq with his regiment, the head of the British army has confirmed.
Gen Sir Richard Dannatt said he had taken the decision personally but stressed it would be kept under review.
He called for an end to the "somewhat..
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Alter Net
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The Supreme Court's decision to uphold a ban on late abortions without an exception for the health of the mother sends a signal that, in many respects, the court thinks legislators, not doctors, are the ones best positioned to make health decisions.
Th..
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Washington Post
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The Supreme Court's decision signaling a significant reversal in the way it views government restrictions on abortion may also offer a glimpse of how the court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will proceed on other controversial issues this term an..
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CBS News
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Contrary to his public statements, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was deeply involved in the firing of eight federal prosecutors, his former top aide said Thursday, adding that the final decision on who was to be dismissed was made by Gonzales and Pres..
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