Tag: us politics
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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 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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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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January 29, 2006 08:29 PM EST --
For several years now, conservatives have used the attacks of September 11, 2001 to justify everything from violating the Constitution to breaking the law to explaining why Social Security should be gutted. . . .
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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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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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September 22, 2007 10:31 AM EDT --
Oliver Willis raises an excellent point: the GOP Presidential candidates were basically tripping all over themselves in order to address the NRA. But they couldn't seem to find any time to address . . .
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August 27, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
Yet another Republican protector of "Family Values" has been found to not exactly practice what he preaches. Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) was arrested in June of this year and convicted of lewd . . .
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August 29, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
In a discussion about Senator Larry Craig’s (R-ID) odd dating habits, Tucker Carlson, conservative talkshow host and all-around toughguy told of how he handled Craig-like advances in public toilets: . . .
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September 17, 2007 01:03 PM EDT --
The sad parade continues. Colin Powell, George Tenet, and now Alan Greenspan, have all sought to distance themselves from the one man quagmire, George W. Bush.
In an interview with 60 Minutes--to . . .
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September 20, 2007 07:38 PM EDT --
As part of an FBI sting involving bribery and corruption, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) had his phone calls with an Alaskan oil contractor recorded. The AP:
The secret recordings suggest the Justice . . .
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December 21, 2005 09:05 PM EST --
On 20 April 2004 , George W. Bush, commenting on the Patriot Act, stated:
".. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap . . .
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January 26, 2006 07:32 PM EST --
"Fair and Balanced" FoxNews' science reporter has been on the take :
"Milloy has been affiliated with FoxNews.com since July 2000. On March 9, 2001, he wrote a column for the website . . .
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February 01, 2006 06:45 PM EST --
As Bush stumblingly read the State of the Union address last night from a teleprompter, one statement sort of leapt out at me:
Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses . . .
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