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Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Only In Washington

Legislation was passed today that has Congress slapping itself on the back and crowing that it has satisfied its duty to its constituencies. The legislation targets big oil companies for price gouging, levying fines as high as $150 million and personal prison time of as much as ten years for those... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 2, 2006

National Boycott A Failure, But Demonstrations Impressive

The National Day Without Immigrants yesterday (May 1 - internation Labor Day) was both a success and a failure. It was a failure in that the called-for boycott and hoped for shutdown of America's businesses for a day did not come to pass. It was, however, an uqualified success in the number of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The Price Of Gas A National Problem

With gasoline prices topping three dollars on average throughout the country, politicians are trying to calm their constituents by asking for probes and investigations. Bush announced that he would ask for a federal probe into whether or not the oil companies were puposefully gouging consumers. Some... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 24, 2006

Fred Barnes, Beltway Boy, Has Taken Way Too Many Belts To The Head

This past week on an edition of the Beltway Boys on Fox News, Mort Kondracke and Fred Barnes were discussing the low numbers of the president's approval ratings and the even lower numbers of approval for the Republican-led Congress. After a lengthy rundown of how bad things are looking for the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Karl Rove's Diminished Capacity; Scott McClellan Resigns

The shake-up many Washington insiders and polititcal experts have been predicting came today, although many see it as simple window dressing and nothing more. Scott McClellan, sometimes referred to as the "human pinyata", tendered his resignation today. Bush's frontman, the White House spokesman was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Bodies Still Being Found As Hurricane Season Looms

Two more bodies were found in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward yesterday, bringing the official death toll in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina to 1296. There are 727 still officially missing, although officials state that as many as half of them could be relocated somewhere in the U.S. Those same... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Another Iraqi War Controversy For The Bush Administration

Did the Bush administration know that the two tractor-trailor trucks captured and claimed as rolling biological agent manufacturing facilities were indeed nothing of the kind before they used it as justification (after the fact) for the Iraq War? The Washington Post ran an article that proposed just... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 10, 2006

Falling Numbers And Rebutting Rumors Of Another War

Amid disastrous approval ratings, president Bush sounded frantic as he tried to reassure the press and the American public that the rumors of a war with Iran were just wild speculation. According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News Poll, Bush's approval rating is a 38%, down 3 points from last... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 7, 2006

Bush Doing His Best To Make Nixon Look Fabulous

The court testimonials of Stewart Libby, vice-president Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff, hit Washington and the nation like a time-delayed nuclear bomb. The news hit and... for a few brief seconds no one could believe their ears. Then, media pandemonium. And you could hear several leading... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Homeland Security Offficial Undermining What He's Sworn To Defend

Brian Doyle, 55, the fourth-ranking deputy press secretary for Homeland Security was arrested yesterday for taking liberties with a minor, although that minor was actually an undercover police officer. Doyle had several sexual encounters and conversions online with who he thought was a 14-year-old... Sign in to see full entry.

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