Tag: us politics
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April 12, 2006 09:21 PM EDT --
You can't make these things up. In the email newsletter of The Weekly Standard, conservative Michael Goldfarb is fearful of the progressive's trend to restrict the use of unhealthy substances: . . .
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May 24, 2007 01:04 PM EDT --
The Progressive notes that on May 9th, George Bush declared absolute emergency powers for the president:
With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for . . .
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January 11, 2006 02:02 AM EST --
Fourteen constitutional law experts, including law school deans, former attorneys general, a former FBI director, and high legal officials of various ilk (including reputable conservatives), have chimed . . .
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February 18, 2006 01:47 AM EST --
Media Matters criticized Fox News for covering for Cheney, who admitted on camera he had been drinking at lunch before he and his partner went quail hunting:
Without question, one of the most significant . . .
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April 12, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
Cheney to Bush: Yes, sir, don't you remember telling me to give
those documents out?
Bush: No, I don't really...
Cheney: I was feeling restless, you were impatient, . . .
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April 16, 2006 12:19 AM EDT --
Remember the Pentagon Papers? Some senator from Alaska had the balls to read a classified document, word for word, into the Congressional Record, and all hell broke loose . Remember some guy . . .
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August 11, 2006 11:09 AM EDT --
A Zogby poll of US registered Democrats shows that 79% of us are happy Lieberman was knocked of the ballot by Lamont.
71% are displeased with Joe's choice to challenge Ned as an independent, . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . .
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April 05, 2006 03:03 AM EDT --
Brian Doyle, deputy press secretary at DHS, has been delivering the Bush Administration's homeland security messages to the media for some time. Doyle assures us that Homeland Security . . .
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January 29, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Popular movements have changed significantly since earlier decades -- and I'm not talking about the 60's. In the 30's and 40's and before, the labor movement was a significant power . . .
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October 24, 2007 06:41 AM EDT --
In the area around San Diego, an area about twice the size of the city of New Orleans has burned since Sunday . But folks there -- even the over 20,000 people evacuated to Qualcomm Stadium -- are . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . .
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January 30, 2007 04:13 PM EST --
Tony Blair gave Catholic adoption agencies all over the UK a twenty month grace period to provide fully nondiscriminatory adoptions to same sex couples, the Guardian reported today. Catholic . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . .
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August 09, 2006 03:09 PM EDT --
Ned Lamont defeated Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primaries last night, forcing the former VP candidate to run for his own seat as an independent.
It's amusing to see the blogosphere credited . . .
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February 01, 2007 01:37 AM EST --
Celebrated racehorse Barbaro was euthanized January 29th, after a series of surgeries failed to provide him with a mobile and pain-free life. Within eight hours, nearly two thousand accounts of . . .
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January 04, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
Last night, Barack Obama claimed his victory in the Iowa caucuses, not for himself, but for the people. For the people who supported him, and for the people (Democrat, Independent, Republican, and third . . .
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October 19, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
Have you read an article on the Village Voice web site since 1/1/2004? Then the Feds may be investigating you. Two executives of Village Voice Media have been arrested for violating grand . . .
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May 08, 2006 08:54 AM EDT --
Much is being made in the press about Congressman Patrick Kennedy's run in with a jersey barrier last week, but the controversy is an interesting piece of spin control.
The question on everyone's . . .
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February 02, 2006 07:59 AM EST --
As we approach the superbowl, friends in Seattle are moaning about the dominance of the game on the front pages of the Seattle papers.
Hamas dominates the government in Palestine, page six. . . .
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