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Sunday, December 21, 2003
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[Washington Post: Editorial] By Timothy M. Smeeding
According to data in the Luxembourg Income Study, child poverty is significantly higher in the United States than in wealthy European nations and in Canada and Australia. In 1997 -- in the midst of a robust economy -- one in five American children lived in poverty. This is about double the rate in other wealthy industrialized nations, such as France, Germany and the Nordic countries.
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[Washington Post: Editorial] By Kurt Campbell and Michael O'Hanlon
In a move that is increasingly unpopular with some of the nation's military personnel and retired veterans, the Pentagon has decided to award the same campaign medal to those serving in Afghanistan or Iraq. This decision, ultimately taken by politically appointed civilians from the Bush administration, is meant to subtly convey a central -- if increasingly controversial -- tenet of their worldview: that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are part of the same seamless global military fight against terror.
This unfortunate and politically inspired decision breaks sharply with military tradition and does a disservice to veterans of these two impressive military operations.
7:10:43 PM Google It!
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Washington Times (warning: heavy right-wing bias of this source): "Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state in the Clinton administration, in a conversation with Morton Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call and a Fox News Channel political analyst, suggested that Osama bin Laden has been captured by U.S. forces and will soon be produced to the public.
'Do you suppose', she asked, 'that the Bush administration has Osama bin Laden hidden away somewhere and will bring him out before the election?'
Mrs. Albright said last night she was kidding. 'She was not smiling when she said this', Mr. Kondracke said."
Via Aardvark. [Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio]
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Thomas A. Scully, the official who ran Medicare and Medicaid for the last two and a half years, is joining a law firm that represents many companies in the health care industry. By Robert Pear. [New York Times: Business]
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Yahoo: "President Bush does not have power to detain American citizen Jose Padilla, the former gang member seized on U.S. soil, as an enemy combatant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The decision, which ordered that Padilla be released from military custody within 30 days, could force the government to try the 'dirty bomb' plot suspect in civilian courts. The White House said the government would seek a stay.
In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Padilla's detention was not authorized by Congress and that Bush could not designate him as an enemy combatant without the authorization."
BBC: "Detainees being held by the US military at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba should have access to lawyers and the US court system, a federal appeals court has ruled." [Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio]
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[AP Politics] By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Distressed by the growing controversy around Connecticut Gov. John Rowland's ties to contractors, the state's Republican members of Congress want to meet with him to discuss his political future.
"I frankly don't know how John is able to survive, how he can maintain his position as governor with the authority to lead," Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., said Friday. "It's evident there is still more to this story, and I don't know how he can continue to stay in office."
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