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...Worse still was Diuguid’s allegation that calling Obama “socialist” was racist due to J. Edgar Hoover’s labeling of civil-rights icons Martin Luther King, Jr., and W.E.B. Du Bois as such. Just because the long list of individuals smeared as socialist happens to include prominent blacks alongside prominent whites like Franklin Roosevelt and every Democrat since does not make the word racial. Furthermore, the socialism charge was not leveled until Obama told a certain plumber that he wished to “spread the wealth around...
...reports that our esteemed President has won the fourth annual American History book prize for her 6th book "The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil...
...FlyBy love to see in our leaders: the ability to write meticulously researched exposes on fascinating historical events from previously untouched angles. While we love giving you props for your fantastic scholarly work in assessing the cultural impact of the 600,000 casualties of the Civil War or whatever...how about that endowment, Drew...
...have people who study subjects that are absolutely sensitive...people who study fraud, people who study crime. My colleague Al Roth studies kidney transfers, including even the general possibility of selling kidneys. So no topic is off limits, and my colleagues have been supportive. Meanwhile, my parents are civil libertarians at heart. They support me in all things, and I’m greatly appreciative of that. 7. FM: You mentioned that you worked by zip code. How were the numbers for 02138? Did we beat Yale?BGE: [Laughs.] This is just going to take a second. It?...
...Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union are pushing bills to restrict fusion centers' access to data, most notably in New Mexico, where opponents hope to make government snooping a costly offense. Legislation has been introduced in Santa Fe that would prohibit any New Mexico law enforcement agency from collecting information about the religious, political and social associations of law-abiding New Mexicans. And in what would be a first for the nation, the bill would allow private citizens to sue law enforcement agencies for damages over the unauthorized collection of such data...