CNET - Breaking News - Supreme Court OKs copyright extension

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a 1998 law extending copyright protection by 20 years, delaying when creative works such as Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons, F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels and George Gershwin's songs become public property.

Very bad, a victory for big corporations against the original intent of the constitution and the free flow of knowledge.

Stevens Seeks Fund Cuts In Education, Security (washingtonpost.com)

Republicans are bracing for Democratic charges that they are underfunding homeland security and education to shrink budget deficits that Democrats blame in part on the president's 2001 tax cut.

Washington Times - Bush To Side With Foes Of Affirmative Action

President Bush is planning to side with white students against the University of Michigan in a landmark affirmative-action case before the Supreme Court this week, said a source close to White House deliberations.

Washington Post -- Racial Politics Emerging as Major Issue for Bush

President's Actions Don't Match Words When It Comes to Inclusion Efforts

Recent racial problems cutting into inroads for all minorities, northern moderates and suburban white women.

NYTimes -- Krugman -- The Tax Complication Act of 2003

...Even some of the lobbyists you would have expected to cheer the plan now believe that it is so complex as to be unworkable.

Is this just another clever step on the way to a system in which only the little people pay taxes?

Washington Post -- Bush Presses Lawmakers to Back Welfare Changes

Bush reprised his call for 40-hour work weeks for people on welfare, programs that try to foster marriage and new freedom for states to spend anti-poverty subsidies in ways that bypass standard federal rules.

NYTimes -- Running Fast Into the Past By MAUREEN DOWD

Mr. Bush and Karl Rove may be disproving Santayana: They have dedicated themselves to learning from the history of the first President Bush, and yet they seem doomed to repeat it anyway.

Craig Patterson, a 45-year-old ironworker in St. Louis worried about dwindling construction jobs, summed it up for USA Today: "I trust Bush with my daughter, but I trust Clinton with my job."

NYTimes -- Protest Groups Using Updated Tactics to Spread Antiwar Message

But in contrast to the tactics of the 1960's, many organizers are trying to sound a note of patriotism and distance themselves from the stereotypical images of angry flag burners or scruffy anarchists.

Last Saturday, at a meeting in Chicago, representatives from labor unions that supported both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars adopted a resolution opposing a war with Iraq and raised $30,000 for the movement.

Be patriotic, protest the war and carry a flag. We represent the United States, not the administration trying to set up their Imperial dynesty.

ABCNEWS - Tivo alert: Thursday night, the Liebermans do the Daily Show.

Washington Post - Well-Known Parks Put On 'Endangered' List

Some of the best known national parks -- Yellowstone, the Great Smoky Mountains and Denali, among others -- were included on the National Parks Conservation Association's fifth annual list of the 10 "most endangered national parks."