Tag: politics
member name: Jade Gold
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August 12, 2006 02:02 PM EDT --
If you've read or watched the news over the past two days, you've unquestionably learned there was a terrorist plot uncovered in Britain. The plot allegedly involved terrorists who would . . .
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August 16, 2006 07:12 PM EDT --
By now, we know George W. Bush and his administration have repeatedly used heightened terror alerts to push administration failures and scandals off the front page.
Similarly, Bush's handlers have . . .
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July 24, 2006 01:05 PM EDT --
Resident extremist Rob Port has published an article that links approvingly to a blog article that attempts to compare the current Middle East crisis with a bar fight in the Philippines. The blogger's . . .
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July 24, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
Contrary to the non-scientific right, including the op/ed page of the Wall Street Journal, there is consensus on Global Warming.
Naomi Oreskes, a history of science professor, responds:
Papers that . . .
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September 07, 2006 01:06 PM EDT --
In an article on how gas prices are everyone's fault but oil companies, Rob Port attempted to support his thesis with what he termed "verifiable facts."
Problem is, this support was neither . . .
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June 29, 2006 01:49 PM EDT --
Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA).
It never ceases to amaze me how much Republicans express a deep reverence for the Constitution and Bill of Rights---without having a clue what these documents say.
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June 30, 2006 09:03 AM EDT --
Clarence Thomas, Tony Scalia's yes-man and unquaified Supreme Court Justice.
In yesterday's 5-3 Supreme Court decision rebuking George Bush's illegal and unconstitutional . . .
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July 16, 2006 04:27 PM EDT --
On Friday--without any fanfare--the US Department of Education released a report that concluded US public school students "generally performed as well or better in reading and mathematics" as . . .
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January 22, 2008 12:13 PM EST --
The man hailed by many conservatives as the second coming of Ronald Reagan hasn't exactly wowed 'em on the campaign trail. After a lackluster finish in the South Carolina GOP primary--a . . .
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July 16, 2006 08:03 PM EDT --
There is ignorance and there is appalling ignorance.
This is an instance of appalling ignorance. And not just a little extremism.
For those who aren't aware--many rightwing extremists have . . .
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July 27, 2006 12:38 PM EDT --
"Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself" is a mantra being tossed around by the rightwing these days in response to the unfolding events in the Middle East. Even our Gather.Com extremists--Ben . . .
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June 28, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA).
Dave Gaubatz served as a civilian employee in Iraq for several months in 2003. While Gaubatz was there, he says he came across what he believed to be credible . . .
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July 03, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA).
Ahhhnuld's been using California's anti-terrorism office (and your tax dollars) not to foil terrorist plots or identify terror cells. No, Ahhhnuld believes . . .
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January 12, 2006 07:16 PM EST --
Out of the mainstream? You be the judge:
Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel Alito while serving as deputy assistant attorney general during the Reagan administration helped write a Department . . .
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January 25, 2006 07:34 PM EST --
From the LA Times:
FT. CARSON, Colo. — An Army interrogator convicted of killing an Iraqi general by stuffing him face-first into a sleeping bag can remain in the military and does not have to . . .
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March 10, 2006 07:44 PM EST --
In 2000, George W. Bush promised to "restore honor and dignity to the White House."
That pledge, as is the case with virtually all Bush promises, lies in tatters.
Several weeks ago, Claude . . .
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September 21, 2007 10:28 AM EDT --
The former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, has an autobography coming out . In the book, Fox claims Bush likes to portray himself as a cowboy and rancher but is afraid of horses.
Sometimes, life . . .
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January 06, 2006 08:22 PM EST --
There's been a good deal of tallying who took money from whom and public displays of politicians giving back campaign contributions from lobbyist and admitted-felon, Jack Abramoff.
How can one tell . . .
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January 14, 2006 10:13 AM EST --
An old professor said, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."
Failure to plan seems to be endemic in the Bush administration. We've seen Bush and company ignore counterterrorism . . .
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September 04, 2006 07:39 PM EDT --
From the Detroit Free Press using US census data.
As can be easily seen, virtually all US states witnessed a decline in median income for their residents from 1999 to 2005.
9/11.
Iraq.
An economy where . . .
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