Ashcroft, Evans Resign

Posted November 9, 2004, 12:59 p.m.

The White House today announced that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans will not be serving during President George W. Bush’s (R) second term.

Both Ashcroft and Evans have served in their respective positions since the beginning of Bush’s first term.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Fred Thompson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. Confiscation of estate, imprisonment, torments, nothing of that nature can have any such efficacy as to make men change the inward judgment that they have framed of things.

John Locke

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Abraham Lincoln

Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always.

Mark Twain

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Anthony Esolen

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Steve Jobs

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Aristotle

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Thomas Sowell

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Alexander Hamilton

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Milton Friedman

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Scott Adams

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Winston Churchill

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Thomas More

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Michael Crichton

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William O. Douglas

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