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Bush Blindfolds the Public

By Dan Kennedy

Boston Phoenix | October 28, 2004

From the Patriot Act to presidential records, George W. Bush has presided over an unprecedented rise in government secrecy.

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Tags: ACLU, media, Act, Patriot, FOIA, house, White

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The 14th Annual Muzzle Awardsnew

An annual look at the dishonorable enemies of free speech and personal liberty in New England.

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Every year around our nation's birthday, the Boston Phoenix honors the dishonorable — those people and institutions who did the most to trample free speech in New England.

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Tags: ACLU, John McCain, media, First Amendment, civil liberties, Supreme Court, censorship, Bill O'Reilly, Boston Police Department, Merita Hopkins, Robert Watson

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Is Hillary Next?new

From Hillary Clinton's days as an intense, influential, and essentially inept co-president to husband Bill, to her establishment as a successful senator from New York, through the bitter trench warfare of the 2008 presidential primaries, and throughout her tenure as a majestic secretary of state, I have always kept the words of my high-school history teacher Dan Leary in mind.

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