NEWS & OBSERVER Venezuela congress grants Chavez decree powers CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan lawmakers granted President Hugo Chavez broad powers Friday to enact laws by decree, undermining the clout of a new congress that takes office next month with a bigger opposition bloc. Chavez opponents condemned the move as a power grab, saying the law gives […]
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Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee By Sam Gustin November 18, 2010 Who says Congress never gets anything done? On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity”
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Murdoch on Anti-Semitism The Press Magnate Warns of a War Against the Jews Editorial of The New York Sun | October 14, 2010 http://www.nysun.com/editorials/murdoch-on-anti-semitism/87113/ It will be some time before a major public figure confronts the question of anti-Semitism in a speech as to the point as that delivered last night by Rupert Murdoch to
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MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Oct 13, 2010 Liu’s wife confined without reason BEIJING The wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo said Tuesday that the Chinese police guarding her home had confined her without any legal explanation, and she had no idea when she’d be freed. As Liu Xia spoke, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing
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OCTOBER 13, 2010 Abducted and Tortured—for Reporting the News ‘This is the consequence of writing against the government,’ my captors said. By UMAR CHEEMA Islamabad, Pakistan Being a journalist, I’m always in search of a juicy story. Last month I happened on one I’ll remember forever: a torture operation conducted presumably by thugs of Pakistan’s
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Obama’s Problem With Business Dinesh D’Souza, 09.27.10 Barack Obama is the most anti-business president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the U.S. government’s control over home mortgages, investment
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Victor Davis Hanson September 23, 2010 12:00 A.M. A Nation of Peasants? The U.S. has returned to deriding “trickle-down” economics. Traditional peasant societies believe in only a limited amount of good. The more your neighbor earns, the less someone else gets. Profits are seen as a sort of theft; they must be
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