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Civil Rights Defined
Treatment guaranteed to individuals by the government; necessary if everyone is to be equal before the law.
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Best-ever China-US ties a legacy of Bush administration: envoy
Published January 7, 2009, 11:07 pm, AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News
Relations between the United States and China are at their warmest ever, a senior US diplomat said here Thursday as he hailed the improved ties as one of President George W. Bush's important legacies.
The fracturing of conservatism
Published January 7, 2009, 10:53 pm, Business Standard India
Till Ronald Reagan ushered in his conservative revolution in 1980, there seemed to be a broad consensus in the US in favour of liberalism in the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson.
Looking back at 2008 in the news
Published January 7, 2009, 10:38 pm, Lincoln Journal Star
Most of us will be glad to see the books close on 2008. It was a year of controversy, contentiousness and concern, from the courtroom to politics to our national and personal well-being.
Fundamentalist sect leaders in Canada charged with polygamy
Published January 7, 2009, 10:34 pm, AFP via Yahoo! Canada News
VANCOUVER, Canada, (AFP) - Prosecutors charged two leaders of a fundamentalist religious sect with polygamy in Canada's westernmost British Columbia province.
Book Review
Published January 7, 2009, 10:20 pm, Nashville City Paper
Though he had been a huge star in the black community throughout the '60s, James Brown was still largely unknown to large portions of white fans before the events of April 4, 1968.
Top Scoops
Published January 7, 2009, 8:18 pm, Scoop.co.nz
Every time Israel doesn't something mean, cruel or stupid you can almost hear the sound of liberals and progressives rushing for a place to hide. Strip away the rhetoric and the excuses and the problem basically comes down to the fact that people don't ...
Gordon Goldstein: Lessons of Obama's First Cabinet Controversy
Published January 7, 2009, 8:06 pm, HuffingtonPost
It had to come some time. Despite a nearly flawless transition period of astute, substantive and widely praised cabinet appointments, the nascent Obama administration...
Obama takes the best California has to offer
Published January 7, 2009, 8:06 pm, Los Angeles Times
Leon Panetta, who could have reformed Sacramento, will instead retool the CIA. Thanks a bunch, Mr. President-elect. You've just taken away California's best hope for government and political reform -- reform necessary to save this state.
Solis, a woman of many firsts, had a steady rise through California's political ranks
Published January 7, 2009, 7:10 pm, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
If Hilda Solis is confirmed as the the United States' first Latino labor secretary, it will be the latest in a lifetime of firsts.
New Zimbabwe Blog » Pessimistic about Obama"s "new dawn of American leadership"
Published January 7, 2009, 5:49 pm, New Zimbabwe
WHEN the Civil Rights Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1964, removing discrimination against blacks, he denounced it as “the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced”.
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Wed Jan 7
- A rare peek at Homeland Security's files on travelers - This Just In - Budget Travel
- Reversing Discrimination: New York Times, Editorial, January 7, 2009
- Historical Thinking Matters: Rosa Parks
Tue Jan 6
- The Innocence Project - Home
- LAPD Chief William Bratton honored by gay website | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times: At least one accolade is going to the right place. This man actually made a difference, and he would have been well within his rights not to.
- ::Civil Rights::
- American Experience | Eyes on the Prize | Video and More | PBS: Chronicles the American Civil Rights Experience
- The Louisiana Voter Test - Volume 17 No. 2 - Winter 2002/2003 ...
Mon Jan 5
- More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying - washingtonpost .com: Maryland police spied on activists like Amnesty International
- Justices' Ruling in Discrimination Case May Draw Quick Action by Obama
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