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A federal court ruling moved the battle between Arizona and the federal government back to the front page this week.
Predictable fallout from the decision by Judge Susan R. Bolton included rallies and protests in Arizona and throughout the country, a quick appeal by the Arizona governor and word from other states that they plan to move ahead with legislation similar to Arizona’s — despite the ruling.
The release of thousands of classified documents on WikiLeaks about the nine-year U.S. war in Afghanistan represents the contemporary equivalent of the Pentagon Papers in many ways.
- The documents have embarrassed both governments.
- An insider “whistleblower” put the documents in the website’s hands.
- The material contains a mix of information already made public and some that those who classify documents hoped would remain classified, such as covert operations aimed at high-ranking Taliban leaders and the number of civilian deaths.
Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod, forced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to abruptly resign this week, was a victim of a conservative activist. On his website BigGovernment.com, Andrew Breitbart posted a video clip of Sherrod, who is an African American, telling an NAACP gathering that 24 years ago she had considered not giving as much help to an impoverished farmer as she might have because he was white. Truth be told, the clip did not run Sherrod’s full speech in which she said she realized that she had been wrong, and that need, not race, was what mattered.
“A Dream Fulfilled? Race, Citizenship, and the Presidential Election of 2008”
hosted by Colonial Williamsburg
Frank Batten Sr.
1927 – 2009
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