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Last Tuesday, John Ashcroft made his single largest contribution to American civil liberties since entering office as Attorney General: He resigned. During Ashcroft’s term, America has seen constitutional right after constitutional right side-stepped, ignored or attacked in the name of executive expediency, and for those of us who take pride in America being “the land of the free,” his resignation could not have come too soon...
With victory in hand, it's time for Bush to restock his Cabinet. Colin Powell and John Ashcroft will probably depart; Condoleezza Rice may get a new post...
...connected," he said. "I don't just have to worry about my own child. I have to worry about the child that cannot read. It's not enough that I am part of the African-American community. I've got to worry about the Arab-American family that John Ashcroft is rounding up, because I might be next." It was Obama as Everyman, and the crowd was mesmerized...
...estimated at $7.2 billion. He has been among the world's largest philanthropists, giving away some $4 billion over the decades. But after 9/11 he turned his attention--and his checkbook--to U.S. politics. Soros, 74, says he was unnerved by such Bush Administration rhetoric as Attorney General John Ashcroft's claim that people who raised concerns that the Patriot Act was a threat to liberty were aiding terrorists. Before Campaign '04 was over, Soros had become one of the largest political contributors in U.S. history, spending about $27 million, most of it channeled to the independent partisan groups called...
Attorney General John Ashcroft or Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge too could catch the presidential bug. There's always the chance that a Draft Arnold movement could emerge, leading to the speedy passage of a constitutional amendment that would allow the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, to make...