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Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm
A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Agency program that the company thought might be illegal.Former chief executive [...]

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Giuliani, Gays and Values Voters | The American Prospect
I’d already read some of the articles linked to this story from TAP - but some are new to me.
(tags: Giuliani Republican Election President Anti-Gay Anti-Abortion)

Generation Next — Religion on Campus
The Barna Group’s survey of young evangelicals - and how young Christians are starting to skew [...]

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This interview with Paul Krugman is fascinating - why is it, after all, that right-wing ideologues seem to lack empathy or compassion for people less fortunate than they are? Mostly, it’s about race, and a lot of of it is about “get your hands offa my stack, Jack.”
Conservatives keep their ilk in line by attacking [...]

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That earlier note about Fitzmas? This is a story that will keep on giving, as it wasn’t just screwy prosecutions in Alabama, it was Mississippi, Wisconsin, and probably lots and lots of other places… anywhere that state justice officials took calls from the White House, probably.
Not that it couldn’t happen in a Democratic-controlled state - [...]

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Mom used to love reading the obits in the Salt Lake Tribune - especially the ones best described as “over the top.” I wonder what she would have made of this one? For my part, it’s a sad, even tragic story… and whoever felt they needed to mention that the subject “drifted from his standards” [...]

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