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U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is creating impunity for senior officials of former President George W. Bush accused of authorizing torture, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Thursday.
In Nobel Peace Prize Speech, Obama Describes Justifications for War and Outlines Standards for Use of Force
In Arab eyes, President Barack Obama collected his Nobel Peace Prize Thursday in Oslo at an ill-timed moment.
GOP lawmaker takes aim at White House for refusing to mention Christmas in this year's holiday cards
Christmas at the White House isn't for sissies.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Arie Genger , once an envoy to the White House for former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon , was sanctioned by a U.S. judge for erasing electronic documents in a shareholder lawsuit and ordered to pay $750,000 in legal fees.
The Justice Department is refusing to back a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman. In a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated... Jack Johnson - United States Department of Justice - United States - Justice Department - Boxing
This Year's Festivities Feature 390-Pound Gingerbread House, 50,000 Guests, Tighter Security
While Washington state helped to make history by voting for Barack Obama last year, all of its residents owe a debt to another dark-skinned man whose name lays buried deep in the annals of the past: George W. Bush. That wouldn’t be George Walker Bush, the country’s 43rd president, but George Washington Bush, the state’s first black settler.
President Obama’s eloquent speech accepting the Peace Prize was the one he needed to give, but we suspect not precisely the one the Nobel committee wanted to hear.
Analysis: President Offers Subtle and Nuanced Speech  And Makes Much The Same Case About the Legitimacy of War as did his Predecessor
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As of now, though, there is nothing to suggest that it's not happening. Heyman is reporting that Boston would send between $8-9 million to Texas in the deal. With that kind of money changing hands, Selig has to sign off on the deal, I'm told.
Thanks to Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the canon of Hanukkah songs by Mormon senators from Utah just got bigger.
What's Your Reaction? Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal columnist and former adviser to George W. Bush, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the Copenhagen climate conference.
The race is on to replace Congressman Brian Baird of Vancouver. Baird surprised a lot of people when he announced he would not seek a seventh term. He was an independent representative of an independent-minded district in Southwest Washington.
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