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SF Gate
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Sen. Barack Obama's historic speech earlier this month in Philadelphia on race relations has elevated the discussion about the issue to the point where it has worked itself into the pews and pulpits of Bay Area churches.
Local ministers say they gave s..
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MSNBC
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Bush pulls back on entitlements
In other economic initiatives, Bush:
Proposed a $300 million expansion of his No Child Left Behind education program to provide more options — mainly in “faith-based” and other parochial schools — for inner-ci..
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SF Gate
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A Democratic Congress is poised to heed President Bush's call to help save the economy, but may not give him much else after a State of the Union speech that recycled many of the administration's past initiatives.
A lame duck president called again for..
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CNN
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White House hopeful Mitt Romney will tell Americans Thursday morning as he seeks to become the nation's first Mormon president that he shares the same "moral convictions" as other people of faith. The former Massachusetts governor is delivering the speech..
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MSNBC
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A third Security Council resolution, with tougher sanctions, is being discussed. President Bush has refused to take military action off the table if Iran does not comply.
Speaking to reporters later, Ahmadinejad attempted to clarify Tehran’s stance...
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MSNBC
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In his speech last night, President Bush made a case for progress in Iraq by citing facts and statistics that at times contradicted recent government reports or his own words.
For instance, Bush asserted that "Iraq's national leaders are getting some t..
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FOX News
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A rowdy protest broke out at the American University in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove delivered a speech on campus, local media reported.
More than a dozen students began throwing things at Rove and h..
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MSNBC
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West Yorkshire in England has a new chief police constable. Upon his appointment, Sir Norman Bettison made one of the strangest comments of the year..
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Philadelphia Local News
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Christian activists yesterday promised to appeal the dismissal of their federal court claim that Philadelphia officials infringed on their freedom of speech when they blocked anti-homosexual protesters at a 2004 Center City gay festival...
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Daily Kos
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Maybe you've heard that the President is going to give a hoo-daddy big speech on Dec. 18. Just in time for Christmas...
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Salon
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On Thursday night, President Bush will deliver a speech about the war in Iraq. Among the speech's major points will be an announcement that roughly 30,000 U.S. troops are coming home from Iraq. The first of those brigades will leave later this month, but..
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Alter Net
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Howie Klein: After Bush's lame speech on keeping the war going for a decade, the Democrats came out swinging.
If you didn't listen to Bush's lame plan to keep the war going for a decade, here's the full text. Perhaps someone can name the 36 countries f..
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Slate
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President Bush's TV address tonight was the worst speech he's ever given on the war in Iraq, and that's saying a lot. Every premise, every proposal, nearly every substantive point was sheer fiction. The only question is whether he was being deceptive or d..
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Washington Post
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Allegations of a vicious dogfighting ring prompted an unusually emotional speech in the Capitol yesterday, as the Senate's longest-serving member fought tears and called for God's judgment on those who promote such activities.
"Barbaric," Sen. Robert C..
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FOX News
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Not yet a 2008 candidate, Fred Thompson energized young Republicans with a speech Saturday that was heavy on rhetoric and short on policy pronouncements. He branded Democrats as "the party of despair."
Chants of "Fred" and "Run, Fred, Run," greeted the..
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FOX News
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President Bush on Wednesday defended the U.S. military build up in Iraq in a patriotic Fourth of July speech, saying victory will require "more patience, more courage and more sacrifice."
"However difficult the fight is in Iraq, we must win it," Bush s..
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FOX News
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Sen. Richard Lugar's criticism of Iraq war policy has led several Capitol Hill insiders to suggest that the Indiana Republican has cleared the way for more GOP defections from Bush administration strategy.
When lawmakers and aides were not debating imm..
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CNN
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Conservative critics have been lighting up the airwaves and blogs for the last 48 hours after Sen. Barack Obama's speech to the Hampton University Annual Ministers' Conference raised the combustible topic of the burning anger among the nation's poor Afric..
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Alter Net
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Justices in the Supreme Court's "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case appear to be interested in turning "Just Say No" into "Don't Even Say It," curtailing free speech rights.
On Monday, March 19, the Supreme Court heard a case concerning the scope of student speec..
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www.prospect.org
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On Thursday, February 8, Bill Richardson delivered a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on "The New Realism and the Rebirth of American Leadership," laying out the foreign policy vision that lies at the core of his presidential c..
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