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Salon.com
January 30, 2001
Joe Conason |
The artful dodger John Ashcroft's nose is growing faster than Pinocchio's during his Senate confirmation hearings. As attorney general, will he be as evasive with the truth?   |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Bruce Shapiro |
Can John Ashcroft be stopped? If the Clarence Thomas hearings are any guide, disorganized Democrats could be the Republican nominee's best friends... |
Salon.com
January 8, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
John Ashcroft's big mistake He denied Ronnie White a federal judgeship for being soft on crime, when his real grudge was against his pro-choice politics -- and the move cost him his Senate seat... |
Salon.com
February 1, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Dems fold on Ashcroft And party activists are angry. James Carville says Democrats are giving their "unelected president" a free ride... |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
The case for John Ashcroft Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice says Ashcroft champions civil rights, rules by law and will make a great attorney general... |
Salon.com
May 10, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Holding court Bush unveils the beginning of his legacy -- the people he wants to shape the law. But Democrats are plotting to keep a say in the nominations... |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Conservatives flex muscles over Ashcroft In a pugnacious appearance, right-wing groups serve notice to "liberal ideologues" that there's a new sheriff in town. |
Salon.com
January 5, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Will Bush Cabinet picks get Borked? Liberal Democrats are gearing up to oppose the president-elect's most conservative choices. Here's a list of the most vulnerable nominees, and their enemies... |
Salon.com
June 27, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
To Bork or not to Bork Democrats give notice that ideology will play a role when the Senate considers Bush's judicial nominees... |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Get Ronnie White, Round 2 In their battle for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft, Republicans are once again attacking the Missouri Supreme Court justice whose federal judgeship Ashcroft scuttled... |
Salon.com
December 22, 2000
Daryl Lindsey |
"A clear and present danger to American women" Pro-choice activists criticize the appointment of conservative John Ashcroft as the Bush administration's attorney general. |
Reason
June 2002
Brian Doherty |
John Ashcroft's Power Grab The saga of a troubled -- and troubling -- attorney general... |
Reason
March 2002
Sam MacDonald |
Gun Control's New Language How anti-terror rhetoric is being used against the Second Amendment... |
Salon.com
January 2, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Bush taps a Democrat Clinton appointee Norm Mineta is selected to head the Department of Transportation, opponents gear up to battle the Bush agenda and Democrats target John Ashcroft... |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Joe Conason |
Ashcroft's tough Sell A segregationist group is banking on the hard-on-crime attorney general nominee to drop a murder conspiracy case against one of its own... |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Gary Kamiya |
Skeletons in the Cabinet Democrats need to work with Bush. But they don't need right-wing dinosaurs like John Ashcroft and Gale Norton... |
Salon.com
May 18, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Committee deadlocked on Olson Hatch asks, "Who the hell cares about the Arkansas Project?" as a full Senate vote looms... |
Salon.com
January 18, 2001
Adele M. Stan |
License to kill? As a senator, John Ashcroft backed a Missouri bill that might make killing an abortion provider justifiable homicide... |
Salon.com
January 8, 2001
David Horowitz |
First blood: The fight over Bush's cabinet The left's efforts to tar and feather Ashcroft and other conservative Bush appointees are as unfair as the smear campaign waged against Clarence Thomas 10 years ago... |
Salon.com
June 15, 2001
Jake Tapper |
The race to face Bush Democratic presidential wannabes waste no time using their new Senate powers to position themselves for 2004... |
Reason
November 2001
Sam MacDonald |
D.C. Dispatches A case of missing gun data -- and of a missing attorney general... |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Why won't Rush Limbaugh denounce Ronnie White? Maybe he knows White is no more pro-criminal than his own cousin, Missouri Supreme Court Justice Stephen Limbaugh Jr.... |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Ashcroft whistles Dixie Bush's attorney general nominee is only the latest conservative lawmaker caught pandering to fans of the Confederacy in a tiny but powerful Southern journal... |
| AskMen.com |
Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. |
Salon.com
November 8, 2000
Carina Chocano |
Real dead guy can win, fake dead people can't vote In Missouri, the late Mel Carnahan beat the living John Ashcroft by 41,000 votes. Meanwhile, in Florida, a voter is turned away because elections officials list her as deceased... |
Reason
July 2003
Sara Rimensnyder |
Rave On How a bad bill becomes a law: The RAVE Act, now officially known as the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, passed both the House and Senate in April without ever having gone through committee and without floor debate. |
Salon.com
February 22, 2001
Jake Tapper |
The mystery of the docile Democrats How long will they keep jumping through Ringmaster George's hoops? |
Reason
November 2005
David Weigel |
When Patriots Dissent Government error and bad publicity resulting from use of the PATRIOT Act have reduced the number of Americans who are willing to trade privacy for security. Politicians who vote against measures like PATRIOT will go home to sympathetic voters. |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Dawn MacKeen |
Could Ashcroft roll back drug policy reform? Bush's choice for attorney general might halt efforts to emphasize treatment over incarceration, opponents fear... |
Reason
October 2004
John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
Salon.com
January 12, 2001
Daniel Forbes |
Ashcroft's nephew got probation after major pot bust Although his arrest for growing 60 plants could have landed him in federal prison, Alex Ashcroft was tried in state court and avoided jail, despite his uncle's crusade for tougher federal drug laws and mandatory prison sentences. |
InternetNews
June 30, 2005
Roy Mark |
Bill Targets Trafficking in Social Security Numbers Legislation requires companies to alert customers if their credit card information has been breached. The bill also prohibits requiring individuals to use Social Security numbers as their account numbers. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2005
Roy Mark |
Roberts Vote Could Stall Data Privacy Law Judiciary Committee may vote today on mandating national breach disclosure law. |
BusinessWeek
June 20, 2005
Lorraine Woellert |
The Left's Supreme Effort A coalition of liberal groups is gearing to form a united front in the looming fight to keep hard-line conservatives off the high court. |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Anthony York |
Baked Alaska? Fearing a return to the days of James Watt, green activists mobilize to spike Bush's environmental nominees... |
InternetNews
February 25, 2005
Roy Mark |
ChoicePoint ID Theft Stirs Up Congress When lawmakers return to work next week, private data protection legislation will be all the rage. |
Salon.com
May 7, 2001
David Horowitz |
Bush's political lynching The president has created the most diverse administration in history. So why does the race-baiting left continue to plant anti-Republican paranoia in black communities? |
PC World
October 25, 2001
Cara Garretson |
Net Surfing, E-Mail Targets of New Antiterror Law Court orders to be used to track and intercept online communications... |
Salon.com
January 22, 2001
David Horowitz |
The Democratic inquisition Democrats set out to tar and feather Bush's Cabinet nominees as racists, overlooking their own racial peccadilloes... |
Reason
June 2002
Brian Dohery |
Watching the AG Maybe Attorney General John Ashcroft isn't the greatest threat to individual liberty since the Inquisition. But that doesn't mean he hasn't been alarming so far... |
Salon.com
May 15, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Playing both sides President Bush unveils a new gun program carefully crafted to appease both the NRA and gun control advocates... |
Salon.com
January 22, 2001
David Tuller |
Along comes Mary Having a lesbian in the second family eases the pain of losing gay-friendly Bill Clinton. Now gay rights action returns to the state and local level -- where it matters most, anyway... |
InternetNews
March 22, 2007
Roy Mark |
Feinstein Charges Again on Data Breach Notification Bill A California senator says identity theft can't be stopped without strong congressional action. |
Reason
August 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Second Thoughts John Ashcroft's Second Amendment position, even if adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is not likely to have practical consequences anytime soon. |
InternetNews
June 21, 2010 |
Ashcroft: Cybercrime Is Everyone's Problem The former Attorney General compares cybercrime to the war on terror and calls on public, private sector to work together to safeguard data. |
Salon.com
June 17, 2002
Bruce Shapiro |
Restoring the imperial presidency The Bush administration rivals the Nixon White House when it comes to secrecy and unchecked power, with John Ashcroft as our modern-day John Mitchell. |
Salon.com
January 23, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
The most dangerous game With one swift move of the pen, President Bush angers pro-choice activists, while strident pro-lifers say he didn't go far enough... |
