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With eyebrows descending and arms crossed behind his head, Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter interrupted Craig's attorney Billy Martin as he tried to make the intricate argument that intentional contact is necessary in order to charge Sen. Larry Craig with disorderly conduct charges. "Disorderly conduct is so innocuous and ambiguous, and there is no factual basis," Martin argued to Porter...
...Sen. Lindsey Graham, a pivotal Republican vote in the U.S. Senate on Iraq policy, is willing to give the government of Iraq until Christmas to get its act together...
...central to the U.N.'s larger purpose. "Every member of the United Nations must join in this mission of liberation," he said, ticking through the declaration's list of "rights" to protection from poverty, illiteracy and disease. That's a fairly progressive position: liberal economists, like Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, have said that basic human rights, like the right to vote, are only as good the social and economic rights that allow for them to be exercised effectively. Bush would never endorse the establishment of such broad rights, which tend to be guaranteed only in welfare states...
...only been three weeks since a bathroom sting operation made U.S. Sen. Larry Craig a household name, but already Royal Zeno is sick of talking about it. "I don't know nothing about what goes on in no bathrooms," he says whenever asked about the infamous stall where the Republican Senator from Idaho was arrested. Unfortunately for Zeno, it doesn't look like the talk will stop anytime soon, as the shoeshine shop he's run for the last 45 years adjoins the newest tourist attraction Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has to offer...
...helped Clinton with the segment of the Democratic electorate that is most suspicious of her because of her 2002 vote authorizing force in Iraq (and because of her refusal to call that vote a mistake). For good measure, on Thursday Clinton voted "no" on a bill introduced by Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas condemning the original MoveOn ad. The bill passed...