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Shakesville — "At the beginning of the 21st century, this nation faces problems that are old and that are new: racial, sexual orientation, and gender inequality all remain. … The solutions are contained within a new, dynamic, progressive movement that has the ability to inspire and motivate the people of this nation in the way that progressives have in the past. That ability exists in this room, and in the law schools, and in the courtrooms, and in the law offices around this country. It is our task to unlock, to unleash the creative energy needed to give life to this renewed movement. It is not enough for us to gather at annual meetings, to ...

More Bird News: Bush Pardons Bald Eagle Killer
Politics Daily — Filed under: President Bush, Republicans, Featured Stories, Humor, Sarah PalinWhat is it with odd bird stories this week? Sure, I know what you're shouting at your screen: Thanksgiving, moron! And, yes, that does partially explain Sarah Palin's strangest interview ever, but what about the news (via Wonkette) that our lamest of all lame duck presidents, George W. Bush, has issued a pardon to Leslie Owen Collier, who, back in 1995, was convicted of killing three bald eagles with pesticide, thereby violating the Bald Eagle Protection ...

Let the Eagle Soar
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Steve Conn: [P]erhaps the nomination which best demonstrated just how inept this administration would prove to be was John Ashcroft. You will recall that Ashcroft got the job of running the Justice Department because he lost his Senate seat in the 2000 election. To a dead man. The reward for failing to beat the deceased Mel Carnahan was the job of Attorney General. It was the first example of what became all too common: for Bush, our MBA president, no failure is so great that it doesn't deserve a promotion . . . . Ashcroft's nomination told us all we needed to know about the coming administration - its contempt ...

Ensign in the membrane
Balloon Juice — I think it’s a bit of a mistake to see the Ensign scandal as just another example of a Family Values champion engaging in extrafamilial activity on the DL. There seems to have been some real misconduct here—here’s Josh Marshall with a quick summary: Ensign now seems to be conceding that he arranged for employment for Hampton during a period in which Hampton was repeatedly confronting him to demand Ensign stop sleeping with his wife. When Larry Craig was tap-dancing in Minneapolis, he wasn’t offering anyone anyone a job in return for some bathroom loving. Sure, it may ...

Court Rules Ashcroft Can Be Held Liable For U.S. Citizen’s Post 9/11 Detention
The Political Carnival — By GottaLaff Will the worst warbler ever take the fall for BushCo on this one? Via my pal Jason Leopold's site: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of an innocent American, Abdullah al-Kidd, a U.S.-born American citizen, who was on his way to Saudi Arabia to study when he was unlawfully detained and arrested in Washington’s Dulles Airport on March 16, 2003 as a material witness in the trial of Sami Omar ...