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NY attorney general gets more ISPs to block alt.* newsgroups

By John Timmer | Published: July 11, 2008 - 02:28PM CT

Last month, the New York state Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, announced that a sting operation had uncovered an indifference on the part of Internet service providers regarding complaints about child porn accessible through their ( Read more... )

Ex-Bush advior fails to testify in Congress

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A former top aide to President George W. Bush, Karl Rove, failed to show up for subpoenaed testimony before the House of Representatives Thursday in a probe of controversial firings of federal prosecutors, at Bush's request, sources said.

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May 27, 2008(Politico) This story was written by John F. Harris.

The signature defect of modern political journalism is that it has shredded the ideal of proportionality.

Important stories, sometimes the product of months of serious reporting, that in an earlier era would have captured the attention of the entire political-media community and ( Read more... )