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Latest Articles: Editorial
Dems Looking for Source of Troubles? Try a Mirror
Post Date: 2007-03-27 00:30:34 by mirage
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The Democrats who were so hungry for power and proliferate with promises to make things better for the United States continue to fall short and disappoint us. We were promised an end to corruption and deception. However, we still have Rep. William Jefferson remaining unscathed in his House seat while the issue of his $100,000 bribe languishes. He was caught on tape, red-handed, taking the bribe, and the money was found in his home freezer. Everyone is completely mute on the subject. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi couldn't wait to get a minimum wage bill passed. Unfortunately for her, it was quickly discovered that she exempted a large corporation in her home town of San ...
Why George Bush is Insane
Post Date: 2007-03-26 23:55:00 by robin
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Why George Bush is Insane By Harold Pinter Special to The Assassinated Press 3-26-7 "Earlier this year I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its after-effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not drown and I am very glad to be alive. However, I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world. "If you are not with us you ...
Rudy Rasputin And Florida Anthrax
Post Date: 2007-03-26 21:29:53 by robin
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was called the "Holy Devil" or "Mad Monk." Rasputin was never a monk, he was married and mad as a hatter. As I covered in my December 18, 2006, column, the unseen hand the gullible public never sees, but who control and direct politics in this country, went gutter trolling when they let the first presidential contenders loose with top billing going to serial adulterer, Rudy Rasputin Giuliani. His claim to fame, besides marrying his second cousin and frequently dressing in drag, is 911. Other than his alleged leadership on that day and the weeks following, few outside the legal community knew anything about him before he became mayor and since ...
OLBERMANN SPECIAL COMMENT TONIGHT: TOM DELAY'S 'BIG LIE'
Post Date: 2007-03-26 19:27:15 by Brian S
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Indicted former bug exterminator, Tom Delay has written a new book about his time in government, sharing stories ranging from the 1994 Republican Revolution, to how he personally found Christ, to how the Democrats are like Hitler.“I believe it was Adolf Hitler who first acknowledged that the big lie is more effective than the little lie, because the big lie is so audacious, such an astonishing immorality, that people have a hard time believing anyone would say it if it wasn’t true. You know, the big lie — like the Holocaust never happened or dark-skinned people are less intelligent than light-skinned people. Well, by charging this big lie” — that DeLay violated ...
Senator Jim Webb Aide Arrested For Taking Gun Into Senate Building
Post Date: 2007-03-26 19:12:34 by Brian S
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U.S. Capitol Police arrested a top aide to Sen. Jim Webb on Monday after he tried to enter a Senate office building carrying a loaded pistol and two fully loaded magazines that belonged to the senator. Phillip Thompson sent a bag through the X-ray machine at Russell Senate Office Building, where Webb's office is located. It detected the weapon and Capitol Police say they determined that Thompson didn't have a license to carry the gun in Washington, D.C. Thompson was arrested and charged with carrying a pistol without a license and possession of an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition. A senior Democratic aide said Webb gave the bag that contained the gun to Thompson ...
The Frat Boys and Their Holocaust - Is it One Million Now?
Post Date: 2007-03-26 12:55:10 by Brian S
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The Frat Boys and Their Holocaust - Is it One Million Now? By Mac McKinney While the Bush Administration reports the overall death toll of Iraqis since the invasion in the few tens of thousands (after all, when you’re spending half a trillion dollars to kill people, you need to show some success on paper), the Iraqi government (sic) has recently admitted that the figure is more like 150,000. This apparent concession is perhaps to avoid being cynically laughed out of the Middle East by all its inhabitants, who know things are much, much worse. Last year Lancet reported, using well-approved statistical measurements, that the median figure is more like 655,000, perhaps higher, perhaps ...
How to Explain the US Attorney/DOJ Scandal to a Lunkhead
Post Date: 2007-03-26 10:40:49 by ...
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Imagine, if you will, a man. A Republican man. And then imagine me talking to that man, after he claims he doesn't get what the big deal is about this whole "scandal." Me: What's your favorite sport? THEM: NCAA Basketball Me: How's your bracket looking? THEM: Not bad, not bad. It was worse last year, let's just leave it at that.......... Me: Okay, have you ever been watching a championship game and in the final seconds, the ref made a horrendous call, which lost the game for your team? THEM: Happened a few years ago, yes. Me: Now, I know that YOU don't bet on college basketball, but let's just imagine that you had a big wad of money riding on that ...
Civic Responsibility And The Blame Game
Post Date: 2007-03-25 13:12:28 by 82Marine89
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Our Founders believed in ownership of the Constitution. By that I mean they expected, almost took for granted, that each American citizen would stake a claim of ownership to the principles and tenants set forth in our Founding Documents. But as we watch our elected officials, in Washington DC and in our State Houses, habitually place the political well-being of themselves and their parties above good government for their constituents and our country, we must ask ourselves: Are we doing our part in making sure our government is the best it can be? The Founding Documents, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, serve as a covenant between the American people ...
Gonzales should be impeached
Post Date: 2007-03-25 10:00:36 by Ada
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Gonzales, the nation's highest legal officer, has been point man for serial assaults against the rule of law, most recently in the crude attempt to politicize criminal prosecutions. Obstruction of a prosecution is a felony, even when committed by the attorney general. The firings of US attorneys had multiple political motives, all contrary to longstanding practice. In some cases, Republican politicians and the White House were angry that prosecutors were not going after Democrats with sufficient zeal. In other cases, they wanted the prosecutors to lighten up on Republicans. In still others, exemplary prosecutors were shoved aside to make room for rising Republican politicians being ...
Where are the laptop bombardiers now?
Post Date: 2007-03-24 22:46:43 by scrapper2
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Pick almost any date on the calendar and it'll turn out that the US either started a war, ended a war, perpetrated a massacre or sent its UN ambassador into the Security Council to issue an ultimatum. It's like driving across the American West. "Historic marker, one mile", the sign says. A minute later you pull over and find yourself standing on dead Indians. "On this spot, in 1879 Major T and a troop of US cavalry beat off..." Last Sunday I was in a used-paperback store in a mall in Olympia, Washington, flicking through Tina Turner's side of the story on life with Ike. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, March 18, one day short of the anniversary of ...
Inserting Politics Into Justice [Bush's Perversion of the DOJ]
Post Date: 2007-03-24 14:01:32 by ...
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The senator vigorously rejected the president's claim of executive privilege. "I find this extraordinary and troublesome," he said, "and I think it will ultimately be damaging to the president. . . . This is an attempt to stonewall our committee, and the public will be outraged." Doesn't that sound like one of those tough statements by Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Democratic point man on the U.S. attorney scandal? The speaker was actually the Republican whom Schumer defeated nine years ago, Alfonse D'Amato, discussing Bill Clinton's invocation of executive privilege in the Whitewater investigation. Nice to see Chuck and Al agree on ...
The Republican Party vs. George Bush
Post Date: 2007-03-24 14:00:35 by Indrid Cold
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I believe that people have dramatically underestimated how much damage George W. Bush has done to the Republican Party. A new survey out today begins to show the extent of the damage. In 2002, the number of people who identified themselves as Republican or Democrat was the same. Both parties had 43% of the population on their side. In 2007, that number has become 50% for the Democrats and 35% for the Republicans. That is an enormous lead for the Democrats. The Pew Research Center says that is the biggest lead either party has ever had since they have been asking the question. Before the 2006 elections similar numbers were coming out in favor of Democrats in generic questions about party ...
Executive Branch Secedes from the Union
Post Date: 2007-03-24 12:25:25 by ...
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When Tony Snow made the rounds of talk shows this week, some might have been surprised at his message. Snow to CNN: "There's another principle, which is Congress doesn't have the legislative -- I mean oversight authority over the White House." Snow to NBC: "Congress doesn't have any legitimate oversight and responsibilities to the White House." Snow to NBC: "First, the White House is under no compulsion to do anything. The legislative branch doesn't have oversight." Snow to ABC: "The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn't have oversight ability." Just in case you ...
A Warning
Post Date: 2007-03-24 11:52:27 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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A Warning
The rape of Iraq's oil
Post Date: 2007-03-24 10:12:30 by angle
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The recent cabinet agreement in Baghdad on the new draft oil law was hailed as a landmark deal bringing together the warring factions in the allocation of the country's oil wealth. What was concealed was that this is being forced through by relentless pressure from the US and will sow the seeds of intense future conflict, with serious knock-on impacts on the world economy. The draft law, now before the Iraqi parliament, sets up "production sharing partnerships" to allow the US and British oil majors to extract Iraqi oil for up to 30 years. While Iraq would retain legal ownership of its oil, companies like Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP that invest in the infrastructure and ...
Rudeness mars peace message
Post Date: 2007-03-24 00:06:36 by mirage
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If the cause of peace is worth supporting — and we believe it is — then peace protesters must demonstrate the values they promote. The vast majority of the estimated 15,000 protesters who took part in a peace march Sunday in downtown Portland did just that. They were well-behaved, well- intentioned and serious about their cause. But then there was a smaller group of demonstrators — if they can even be called that — who engaged in numerous actions that violated the sensibilities of ordinary people and damaged the very cause the activists claimed to endorse. This splinter group of protesters showed its support for “peace” by burning a U.S. soldier in effigy. It ...
The Russian Bear and the Crippled American Duck
Post Date: 2007-03-23 18:47:08 by Brian S
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After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia, though one of the four members of the Quartet, assumed only a nominal role in the Middle East peace process. Under President Vladimir Putin, however, this major power started recovering its original role in the international arena, parallel, if not rival, to that of the US. Russia has declared its return to the Middle East: firstly, in its opposition to the American occupation of Iraq, secondly, in its criticism of the way the US is tackling the Iranian nuclear project and thirdly, in its active involvement in the Palestinian file. Regarding its involvement in Palestine, Russia has forcefully expressed itself by Putin's invitation ...
Obama the 'Magic Negro'
Post Date: 2007-03-22 23:40:08 by Tauzero
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Obama the 'Magic Negro' The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man. By David Ehrenstein, L.A.-based DAVID EHRENSTEIN writes about Hollywood and politics. March 19, 2007 AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House. But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the ...
Novak Finally Gets It
Post Date: 2007-03-22 17:34:24 by BeAChooser
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Novak Finally Gets It Douglas Hanson Belatedly, Robert Novak sees the key deception in the so-called outing of Valerie Plame and the phony Libby prosecution for perjury. Novak tells us that former House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra had tried to confirm Plame's covert status from the CIA but that he "got only double talk from Langley." Now that the Dems are running the show, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman apparently has the power to get the CIA to officially weigh-in on the matter when neither Hoekstra nor the judge in the Libby trial were able to do so. In his opening statement, Waxman asserted that Valerie ...
When Republicans Have Nothing To Say, They Yell "al-Qaeda"
Post Date: 2007-03-22 11:38:46 by Brian S
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Whether or not the Bush administration or Congressional Republicans care much about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda is to a large degree dependent on which way the political wind is blowing on a given day and the extent to which it suits their agenda to scare the crap out of the American people, while hitting the always-painful 9/11 nerve. Despite American intelligence agencies continued insistence that al-Qaeda and its leadership are the biggest terrorist threat to the United States, bin Laden is still at large 2,000 days after George W. Bush boldly claimed that he would get him "dead or alive." Of course, Bush's "resolve" was very temporary. Six months after saying ...
The Dead-Enders; Being A Neocon Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
Post Date: 2007-03-21 13:20:01 by Brian S
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Christopher Hitchens isn't sorry. Not about being a Commie all those years ago; after all, he was a Trotskyite, not one of those icky Stalinists, which merits a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. Not about being frequently drunk in public: after all, it's part of his image as the Courtney Love of punditry. And, most of all, he's not sorry about doing his bit to gin up the Iraq war: "Four years after the first coalition soldiers crossed the Iraqi border, one can attract pitying looks (at best) if one does not take the view that the whole engagement could have been and should have been avoided. Those who were opposed to the operation from the beginning now claim ...
Voice of the White House - 19 March
Post Date: 2007-03-21 12:50:12 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C., March 18, 2007: “Early last week, I was having dinner with an old friend of my wife’s who works for the Justice Department as an analyst. During the course of the meal, he mentioned a lengthy report he has on his desk about Vice President Cheney. It was compiled by a Department individual, known to him and considered to be very accurate. It is a lengthy report on Cheney’s psychological makeup, his physical problems and a clear rationale for his very possible death, probably in the near future. It is not a state secret that Cheney is in very bad health. He had suffered, to date, four major and three minor heart attacks, he has had quadruple bypass surgery, ...
9/11 Truth: The War on Terror is a Fraud
Post Date: 2007-03-21 11:51:23 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Is the war on terror for real? Or are we being fed an elaborate fraud that keeps us afraid, keeps the TV ratings up, and keeps our government (...more) powerful? Watch this if you're not afraid to learn the answer. 9/11 Truth: The War on Terror is a Fraud Replay video | Share video | Watch more videos
The Delusions of the Last Rightwing Remnant: Freerepublic.com
Post Date: 2007-03-21 11:50:38 by Brian S
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The Delusions of the Last Rightwing Remnant: http://Freerepublic.com Only a small minority in the United States maintains an unwavering faith in the administration of George W. Bush. Most of the country has finally discovered Bush and his ilk are liars, thieves, incompetent hacks, and mercenary madmen. Only a few true believers remain. These few are reflected in the unwavering statistical minority of 30%-33%, who still support Bush, and apparently will support Bush, no matter what he does. This remnant, or as Steven Colbert called them, "the backwash," will never sway. Like the Christian martyrs of old, they will go to their deaths swearing allegiance to their master. One might ...
James Woolsey Should Lose Security Clearance
Post Date: 2007-03-21 11:36:49 by Brian S
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Booz Allen Vice President R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence during the Clinton administration, still has his security clearance. Woolsey's advocacy of American Navy employee turned Israel spy Jonathan Pollard's release though raises questions about the propriety of his continuing to have access to the nation's secrets -- particularly those that cover activities in the Middle East. Woolsey has been at the crossroads of conflicting intelligence loyalties in the past as well. In 1998, James Woolsey served as the lawyer for a group of six detained Iraqi National Congress personnel detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Guam and then ...
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