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By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyCould we be looking at a future Sarah Palin in the new Miss America? Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan, was crowned Miss America 2011 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. The first Nebraskan ever crowned as the pageant's winner, Scanlan, 17, said in an interview with The Associated Press that she wanted to be not a doctor, school teacher or even television news anchor when she graduated from college. She wants to be a politician -- after she finishes law school. "At this point, attorneys and politicians are looked down on and have terrible reputations for being greedy and power hungry and I really ...
Opinion: Juan Williams' Firing Not Justified
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 22) -- "Believe it or not, I prefer driving a car instead of riding a camel." I have successfully used this phrase as an ice-breaker in the beginning of my noncredit course titled "Islam: Fact and Fiction" at Harford Community College. The course is interactive and covers a broad range of hot-button issues regarding Islam. In the beginning of each course, we agree on a set of ground rules as a group. Out of approximately 10 ground rules, I always propose that students can ask any questions, without having to worry about my sensitivity. Everyone agrees. And that makes it fun and ...
Will the Supreme Court Rescue John Ashcroft Again?
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe United States Supreme Court Monday signaled its intent to again rescue former Attorney General John Ashcroft from a civil trial over whether he abused his leading role in the enforcement of Bush-era detention policies toward terror suspects. For the second time in three terms, the justices have accepted a case designed to explore the width and depth of the legal immunity shield for public officials, like Ashcroft, who are sued for money damages based upon their conduct in office. Just 16 months ago, in June 2009, in a case styled Ashcroft v. Iqbal, the justices blocked from trial a civil ...
High Court to Hear Ashcroft's Appeal to Stop Lawsuit
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Oct. 18) -- The Supreme Court will consider an appeal by former Attorney General John Ashcroft to throw out a lawsuit seeking to hold him personally responsible for improperly arresting a Muslim U.S. citizen after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The justices on Monday stepped into a dispute that, at its roots, concerns the Bush administration's aggressive moves against Muslims and Arabs in the United States following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Abdullah al-Kidd was one of at least 70 people detained under a law aimed at insuring that witnesses would be available to appear in court ...
Feds Say NYC Subway Bomb Plot Linked to al-Qaida
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (July 7) -- A failed plot to set off bombs in the New York subway system last year was part of a larger al-Qaida terrorist conspiracy that included a similar attack planned in England, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. In an indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, prosecutors added several al-Qaida figures to the case, including Adnan Shukrijumah, an FBI most-wanted terrorist. Shukrijumah, one of the al-Qaida leaders in charge of plotting attacks worldwide, was directly involved in recruiting and plotting the New York attack, prosecutors said. Attorney General ...
The Music Stops For the Singing Senators
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyThe U.S. Senate re-convened today, but the chamber didn't seem as-- dare we say?-- harmonious as in past sessions.That's because for the first time in several decades, the body did not include any of the Singing Senators, a barbershop quartet comprised of four Republican lawmakers-- who were also united by making total fools of themselves on the national stage.Let's meet the four erstwhile Capitol crooners, whose gifts for both music and public shame knew no equals: Name Range Embarassment John Ashcroft Baritone Lost re-election to a dead man. ...
Alberto Gonzales to 'Set Record Straight' in New Book
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyIn an interview with The Wall Street Journal, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took umbrage with the widespread public disapproval of his performance in office. "What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong," Gonzales asked, "that deserves this kind of response to my service?" He went on to say, "[I] am portrayed as the one who is evil in formulating policies that people disagree with. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror." Gonzales reserved his harshest criticism for James Comey, the man who was acting Attorney General when Gonzales, ...
More Bird News: Bush Pardons Bald Eagle Killer
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWhat is it with odd bird stories this week? Sure, I know what you're shouting at your screen: Thanksgiving, moron! And, yes, that does partially explain Sarah Palin's strangest interview ever, but what about the news (via Wonkette) that our lamest of all lame duck presidents, George W. Bush, has issued a pardon to Leslie Owen Collier, who, back in 1995, was convicted of killing three bald eagles with pesticide, thereby violating the Bald Eagle Protection Act.While the president also issued three get-out-of-jail-free cards to individuals involved with the cocaine trade, the bald eagle killer ...
No Charges For Gonzales in Attorneys Purge
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThe Washington Post reports that Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine will not refer former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to a federal grand jury for his role in the U.S. Attorneys purge. A report, written by another official in the department, however, calls for a prosecutor to investigate the firings. According to report, current Attorney General Michael Mukasey will name a prosecutor from within the department. The controversy over the firings began in December of 2006, when eight U.S. attorneys were fired. Though firing U.S. Attorneys is the prerogative of the President, ...
Details of Gonzales Hospital Visit Emerge
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThings just keep getting worse for former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Murray Waas of The Atlantic has two stories out today about the details of the infamous visit Gonzales, serving as White House counsel at the time, and former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card made to the hospital room of ailing then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in March of 2004. In one of the stories, Waas reports that Gonzales' former department launched an investigation into whether notes Gonzales kept were faked in order to create, as Waas puts it, "a rationale for reauthorizing his warrantless eavesdropping ...
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