WASHINGTON – Peter Kirsanow does not view the modern civil rights movement through the same lens as the majority members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The Bush appointee who has been caught up in a dispute over his seat at the commission table said Thursday that the civil rights …
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It’s human nature to bury tragedies, to gloss over them, move on from them and maybe, in time, forget them. So horrified are we of the images of 9/11, that we’ve managed to sanitize 9/11. For the sake of those who died, we make only the vaguest references to “how” …
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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration has thrown its support behind a House bill to be voted on Thursday that will completely overhaul the troubled Immigration and Naturalization Service. Attorney General John Ashcroft appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday to endorse the Barbara Jordan Immigration Reform and Accountability Act, which will restructure …
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – For years, public schools have been reluctant to teach about the Bible, fearing it would violate the constitutional separation of church and state. But one religious scholar hopes to change that. Matthew Hicks, 32, who holds a master’s degree in religious studies from the University of Georgia …
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And now the most compelling two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: Albright Diagnoses the AdministrationFormer Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says the Bush administration’s foreign policy suffers from what she calls “untreated bipolar disorder.” In a graduation speech at Tufts University in Massachusetts, Albright said, “They …
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To watch Talking Points click here . Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. Lots of action this evening, including Peter Jennings on what his future might be. But first the Talking Points Memo. Fear and loathing over pictures of President Bush. The Democrats are shocked and …
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WASHINGTON – For the first time in a half-century, the Pentagon is significantly scaling back a women’s advisory panel, a move that has been received with hope, skepticism and downright disappointment. According to Lt. Col. James Cassella, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has already approved a revised charter for the …
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