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It's never politically expedient for a president to fight segregation
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, Jan 5, 2012
Have I ever loved Republicans? Why, sure I have!
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Charles Percy, UNO, and the ever-shifting political winds
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Cameron's scandal — and Nixon's
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In light of the way it handled other honest services fraud convictions in the late 1980s, we shouldn't assume that the Seventh Circuit would have overturned Otto Kerner's.
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Why the son of a shamed former Illinois governor is so interested in the Supreme Court's review of the "honest services" law
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, Dec 3, 2009
Jonah Goldberg Thinks Hard
Jonah Goldberg recalls George McGovern as an intellectual hypocrite
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, Sep 14, 2009
TIFF Review: The Most Dangerous Man in America
A new documentary profiles the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
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, Sep 2, 2008
Edwin Guthman and the Kennedys -- Too Close?
Edwin Guthman was a great journalist, but should he have gone to work for Robert Kennedy?
by Michael Miner
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