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Former Vice President Dick Cheney and, most recently, his daughter, Liz Cheney, a former State Department official, have charged that President Barack Obama and his administration have been overly concerned about the civil liberties of terrorists at the expense of an effective program to prevent another September 11 and to destroy al Qaeda. (more)
Read that headline again. (more)
“It is my belief that there are ‘absolutes’ in the Bill of Rights and they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be absolutes….[The first Amendment] provides, in simple words, that ‘Congress make no law…abridging the freedom of speech or the press. I read ‘no law abridging” to mean ‘no law abridging.’” — the late Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black (more)
The odds may be slight, but I believe there is still a chance for President Obama to pass a bipartisan health care reform bill, even if it represents a small incremental step that will improve access to health care and opportunities to reduce costs. (more)
Editor's Note: This is the first of a weekly column by Lanny Davis, "Purple Nation," as published in The Hill newspaper. (more)
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