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Ken Starr Defends Elena Kagan as 'Very Qualified'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs Senate Republicans intensified their criticism Wednesday of Elena Kagan's qualifications to join the U.S. Supreme Court, the nominee got a vote of confidence from an unlikely source -- former independent counsel Ken Starr. Starr led the investigation into then-President Bill Clinton's Whitewater real estate deals and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He previously served as solicitor general under President George H.W. Bush, the same post that Kagan currently holds in the Obama administration. In an interview Wednesday on MSNBC, Starr called Kagan "so smart and so able" and defended her lack ...
Clinton Nemesis Ken Starr to Head Baylor University
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyKen Starr, the sober-faced lawyer who headed the independent counsel investigation leading to the impeachment of Bill Clinton, will take over as president of Baylor University in June. Starr has served as dean of Pepperdine Law School in Southern California since 2004. "With its great tradition in the Christian world and its growing international reputation as a research university that continues today to care deeply about undergraduate education, Baylor is poised to have an increasingly expanding global impact," Starr said in a statement issued by the Baptist-affiliated school in Waco, ...
It's Jerry Brown vs. Ken Starr for the Fate of Gay Marriage
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyTalk about sexual tension! California is witnessing a showdown between Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown and Republican attorney Ken Starr in the fallout over the marriage-banning Proposition 8. On the hard left, Brown, who filed a brief with the state Supreme Court stating "the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification." Brown wants the marriage-ban repealed.On the throbbing right, Starr, who is representing the anti-marriage group Defend Marriage and believes people are better off getting sexual fulfillment ...
Crossing the Threshold
By David Knowles - Politics DailyDeep down, you knew it would happen. Though every conceivable indicator signaled an easy presidential victory for the Democrats, or maybe because of that fact, a niggling little voice started piping up in our collective minds: they will find a way to lose. Remember back when it was the Democrats who were overwhelmingly happy with their choices in the race for the nomination? Edwards, Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Clinton, Obama, take your pick. Any of them would prove a vast improvement over the current occupant of the White House. A spirited contest would only help prime the eventual nominee for ...
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