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By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyHaley Barbour's press secretary was just making jokes, but his boss -- make that former boss -- isn't laughing about the episode that prompted Dan Turner to resign Monday. In e-mails sent to staff and supporters of the Mississippi governor, Turner made light of the earthquake in Japan, mocked former attorney general Janet Reno and joked about Cambodian genocide in the 1970s, Politico reported. The offending material was part of a "this day in history" roundup that Barbour's spokesman routinely mails out. Among its citations: In 1968: Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for ...
Is Kagan Gay? It's All the Talk, and That's a Shame
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyLet's face it. To the world at large, being gay is a terrible thing to be. People whisper the word, gossip about it, trade in innuendos about it, as if being gay were a crime. That brings us to Elena Kagan. Here she is: a brilliant, accomplished, fabulously successful lawyer and professor, dean of the Ivies, academic par excellence, and a good-time gal, a former smoker who plays poker and can swing a bat. She's a New Yorker, a child of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dutiful daughter of dutiful liberal parents, and soon-to-be Supreme Court justice. Who could ask for anything more? Well, ...
'Young Elian' Shown in Communist Uniform
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 5) -- Now 16 years old, Elian Gonzalez remains a potent symbol of the often-acrimonious relations between the United States and Cuba -- something that newly released photos of Elian wearing the militaristic uniform of the Young Communist Union will do nothing to change. Posted Monday on a Cuban government Web site, the pictures offer a rare look at Elian, who has not been seen much by American audiences in the years since gun-toting agents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service swooped in on the Miami home where the then-6-year-old boy was living and returned him to his ...
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