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When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the Obama White House over the 2010 census. That night on Fox News, Sean Hannity called Obama's plans for the census process "the biggest White House power grab ever," as his guest Karl Rove voiced agreement. The same day, House Republicans declared that the White House had "an unprecedented plan" for the census that "will taint results and open doors to massive waste of taxpayer funds...
...issues or events that made him reconsider or why he had only just now realized that it wasn't a good fit when his differences with the Administration's agenda were never a secret. He was equally vague about the theory that he hadn't been happy that the White House had moved to take away some of the Commerce Department's traditional control of the Census after Democratic activists voiced concerns about a Republican overseeing the politically charged process. "The Census was only a slight catalyzing issue. It was not a major issue," he said...
...Gregg, who does not expect to seek re-election in 2010, first made his concerns clear to Obama earlier this week. They met Wednesday at the White House, just a day after Gregg had conspicuously chosen not to vote at all on the Senate's stimulus plan. The news was kept secret until Thursday. In a briefing to reporters at the White House, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said the news had come as a blow. "My first thought was, It's better we discovered it now than later," he said, according to the Wall Street Journal...
...Europe was united during the Bush years in pushing for the closure of the controversial military prison in Guantanamo. But now that there's a president in the White House who wants to close the prison, most European countries are making themselves scarce. (See pictures inside Guantanamo...
...methods were used by both antiquity's weak and strong. In 332 B.C., the citizens of the doomed port of Tyre catapulted basins of burning sand at Alexander the Great's advancing army. Falling from the sky, the sand, says Mayor, "would have had the same ghastly effect as white phosphorus," the chemical agent allegedly used during Israel's recent bombardment of Gaza, not far to the south of ancient Tyre. A Chinese ruler in A.D. 178 put down a peasant revolt by encircling the rebels with chariots heaped with limestone powder. Accompanied by a cacophonous troupe of drummers...