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...father [is] in heart failure," one person wrote to Mossman, hoping to get tickets to the ball. "He has had a lifetime love of politics, lived in Hawaii ... Can I get two tickets?" Mossman has had to decline offers of $10,000 sponsorships because he cannot provide the eight-seat tables for the would-be donors. "It kills me when I have to turn people away because we don't have any more tickets." (Read about the 2001 Inaugural balls...
Next month in Atlanta, a federal court will hear the high-profile appeal of former Alabama governor Don E. Siegelman, whose conviction on corruption charges in 2006 became one of the most publicly debated cases to emerge from eight years of controversy at the Bush Justice Department. Now new documents highlight alleged misconduct by the Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney and other prosecutors in the case, including what appears to be extensive and unusual contact between the prosecution and the jury...
...whistle-blower during the past 18 months. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which investigated the Siegelman case as part of a broader inquiry into alleged political interference in the hiring and firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush Justice Department, last week sent an eight-page letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey citing the new material...
...Under an article titled "The Fine Print," the creators of the newspapers explained, "The dozens of volunteer citizens who produced this paper spent the last eight years dreaming of a better world for themselves, their friends and any descendants they might end up having. Today, that better world, though still very far away, is finally possible - but only if millions of us demand it and finally force our government to do its job." The article went on to direct readers to a host of advocacy groups pushing various liberal agendas, including Iraq Veterans Against the War, Friends of the Earth...
...ironies of politics and history that when the candidate of change was pondering what he would do if he actually got elected President, he turned to the man who eight years before handed over the White House keys to George W. Bush. Former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta had met Barack Obama only a few times before the Democratic nominee summoned him to Chicago in August to ask him to begin planning a transition. Podesta supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries and had little in common with Obama beyond the fact that they are both skinny...