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Monday, October 9, 2006

The Foley Fallout Continues

The polls are showing numbers that the Republicans can only hope disappear by election day in November. One poll reported a whopping 75% of Americans beleive the Republican Party deliberately covered up the Foley scandal. Above 60% think Hastert should resign. And the numbers have shifted so... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

Thousands Demonstrate Against Bush -- Here -- In The United States

Thousands of people literally took to the streets today in protest of the president and his policies. Orchestrated by World Can't Wait, the demonstrators marched, protested, and shouted their distaste for the current administration. According to the Associated Press article by Lubna Takruri, Rick... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 3, 2006

The Foley Fallout Just Hit Rock Bottom

Republican representative Mark Foley claims to be an addictive personality. Specialists in the field of addictive rehabilitation often speak of that place known as "rock bottom" that must be reached before an addictive personality can work its way back to a productive life. Mark Foley, I'm certain,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Just When You Thought The GOP Was Going To Stand And Deliver In November

Scandals don't get much more timely than this -- or untimely, if you happen to be a Republican. Yesterday, Representative Mark Foley of Florida resigned his Congressional seat just as the media delivered him up to the American public as an alleged pedophile. To make matters worse, it has come to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Rice Softly Refutes Clinton's Remarks Because She's...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun refuting the heated remarks made by President Clinton in his interview with Chris Wallace and FoxNews this Sunday, where the ex-president defended his administration's efforts to kill bin Laden, stating that he did more in the last eight months of his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 24, 2006

War In Iraq Contributing To Terror Threat? Where The Hell've You Been?

A classified report assessing the War in Iraq and its impact on terrorism and the War on Terror was leaked to the Washington Post and the New York Times this week. The National Intelligence Estimate, which represents the consensus view of 16 separate intelligence agencies, maintains that the war in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 22, 2006

Can't We Just Piss Off One Middle Eastern Country At A Time?

One thing the Bush administration is definitely multilateral on: confrontational or adversarial undiplomatic dialogue. Since 9/11 the United States has had some major diplomatic flap with almost every Middle Eastern country except Israel. There was even a dust-up over a report on Saudi involvement... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Told Ya We Could Get A Job, Bubba, If'n We Called The INS

The little town of Stillmore, Georgia boasts an exploding population of 700, or it did, until the INS came to town and arrested 120 illegal aliens. The population is now half what it was. Most of the illegals worked for the town's leading employer, Crider, which processes chicken. Crider lost 70% of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Constitution Day

It was on this day in 1787 that the Constitution was signed by 38 of 41 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. By June 1789, it would be ratified by all the states and commonwealths to become the official Constitution of the United States of America. Although amended, its basic... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Flawed Logic

Coming from a man with no military experience, a man whose programs and legislative plans and proposals have curtailed and violated the civil liberties of Americans and citizens of the world, the idea that Colin Powell's statement about the international doubt over America's "moral basis for the war... Sign in to see full entry.

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