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NEW YORK (Oct. 6) -- A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln and bought by Robert F. Kennedy, who drew inspiration from the document as he enforced civil rights legislation in the 1960s, is going up for auction and could fetch as much as $1.5 million. Kennedy bought the printed copy of the 1863 document declaring all slaves "forever free" shortly after its centennial celebration at the White House. His widow, Ethel, is offering it for sale Dec. 10 at Sotheby's, the auction house told The Associated Press. It's one of 48 printed copies signed by President Abraham Lincoln. ...
New Republic Editor Apologizes for Saying Muslims Don't Deserve Rights
By David Gibson - Politics DailyMartin Peretz, the liberal hawk who supported Barack Obama with almost the same ferocity that he backs Israel, has apologized for a sentence in a widely disseminated column he wrote about the Ground Zero mosque furor in which he suggested that Muslims don't deserve First Amendments protections. At the end of a Sept. 4 blog post at the website of The New Republic, the influential, neo-liberal periodical he edits, Peretz blasted what he saw as overly heightened sensitivities to the feelings of U.S. Muslims. He concluded: But, frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among ...
You Say Progress, I Say Apartheid...
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAccording to the Southern Voice, the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Thursday on a transgender-exclusive version of the Employment Non Discrimination Act, or ENDA. This version is opposed by more than 280 state and national gay and transgender advocacy organizations, who have signed a statement demanding Congress to vote it down. The article also discusses a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) forum on the issue in Atlanta yesterday. According to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), the bill's sponsors lacked the votes to pass a trans-inclusive version, falling about 30 votes short. Speaker ...
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