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During the April, 2007, massacre that took the lives of 32 people, officials at Virginia Tech alerted their own family members that a gunman was on the loose, but kept the information from the student body for a full hour-and-a-half, the New York Times reported Friday morning.
The newspaper also stated that a revised report from [...]

Enforcement of civil rights laws suffered noticeably under the Bush administration, says a Government Accountability Office report obtained by the New York Times.
When compared with the Clinton administration, its findings show a significant drop in the enforcement of several major antidiscrimination and voting rights laws. For example, lawsuits brought by the division to enforce laws [...]

You might be able to see Russia from Sarah Palin’s home state, but that isn’t an excuse to speak Russian.
Authorities turned away reporters who didn’t speak English from a Palin event in Minnesota this week, demanding that reporters address the former Alaska governor only in English and refer to her only as “governor.”
Event planners at [...]

‘Power struggle’ inside Blackwater over Prince’s successor
Blackwater’s Erik Prince was recruited as a CIA agent in the years after the 9/11 attacks, says an exclusive report at Vanity Fair that also reveals the billionaire ex-Navy SEAL plans to step down from Blackwater to teach high school.
For the past six years, Prince “appears to have led [...]

Sen. Arlen Specter isn’t supportive of a troop surge in Afghanistan.
Specter (D-PA), who defected to the Democratic Party earlier this year, released a statement Tuesday night opposing a troop increase in Afghanistan — in contrast to his former Republican allies, who embrace a surge.
Here is the full text of Specter’s statement via Talking Points Memo.
“I [...]