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NEW YORK – President Obama's newly confirmed administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has several times quoted approvingly from an author who likened animals to slaves and argued an adult dog or a horse is more rational than a human infant and should therefore be granted similar rights. A brief video on YouTube captures Cass Sunstein at a 2002 event using the writings of Jeremy Bentham, a 19th Century social reformer and animal rights pioneer. "You've heard a reference to Bentham, so let's listen to him, shall we," he begins in the video. He then...

Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:02:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Paul Tabaka" View Subject: The Sexual Perverts. To: counter-misinformation@state.gov Dear Sirs, If I am mistaken, there should be little harm of it (other than my making me seem foolish). If I am not mistaken, a great harm can be prevented. I have not until very recently seen any information regarding any connections by the British author Jeremy Bentham with any forms of homosexuality. Since the publishers in the U.S. have not been prudes beginning more than half-century ago, one would not suppose that any such information had been simply suppressed until...