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In the News: Barack Obama's victory speech
November 4, 2008
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around [...]
In the News: John McCain's concession speech
November 4, 2008
My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Sen. Barack Obama—to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
In a contest as [...]
In the News: Presidential debates
Last night in New York, Barack Obama and John McCain participated in the third and final presidential debate of this 2008 election. The focus was on domestic issues, including the economy. The debate transcript can be seen here, at the Web site of the Commission on Presidential Debates, the organization that conducts the debates. For [...]
16Oct2008 | mdblogger | 7 comments | Continued
In the News: Vice-Presidential Debates
At first glance, yesterday’s vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin appears to have lacked any moments of historical importance. This, despite the fact that prior to the debate, political commentators noted that interest in the debate was unusually high. While most presidential historians would say that vice-presidential debates generally have very little if [...]
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In the News: Obama, JFK, and Reagan in Berlin
Today’s speech by Senator Barack Obama in Berlin, Germany, has garnered massive media attention, in part because it recalls iconic speeches by John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. (Both Kennedy and Reagan, it should be noted, were sitting presidents when they delivered their addresses.) According to the German News Agency DPA, approximately 200,000 people attended [...]
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In the News: Torture documents
From the MilestoneDocuments.com staff:
On July 17, 2008, former attorney general John Ashcroft testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the legality of the interrogation techniques used on captured terrorism suspects.
From the San Jose Mercury News: Ashcroft: “Not Hard” to Reject Interrogation Memos
From the House Judiciary Committee Web site: Hearing on: From the Department of Justice [...]
Michael J. O’Neal on Censorship and the Publishing Industry
The words “censor” and “censorship” get tossed around with tedious regularity. Too often, when a message fails to find an audience, its author, like a porcupine hopped up on Red Bull, gets all prickly and cries “censorship,” with images of Nazi book burnings or officious medieval prelates impaling heretics on toasting forks and roasting them [...]
19Jun2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued