August 1, 2006
BushCo’s Recipe For Success
When the chips are down, the Bush administration apparently just cooks the books and hopes for the best.
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July 22, 2006
The Pen And The Sword
Amid rapidly escalating violence between Israel and its tormentors in the Middle East, diminishing traction of the ersatz governments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a renewed curiosity toward his behavioral motivations, George W. Bush exercised his constitutional power to veto legislation this week — for the first time in an improbable six-year run as President of the United States.
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June 27, 2006
A Game Of Inches
The U.S. Senate came within one vote Monday of embroiling the entire nation in a pointless debate over the symbolism and sanctity of the American flag. By the count of 66 – 34, a constitutional amendment vesting Congress with the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States failed to gain the two thirds majority required for passage and submission to the states for ratification.
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June 18, 2006
Now That You Mention It
An Associated Press headline today says, “Clinton Speculates On Wife In White House.”
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June 13, 2006
Goat It Is
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald — the man who has kept the blogosphere, if not quite the entire nation, on the edge of its seats for much of the past two-plus years in his ongoing work as the investigator into possible crimes attending the public outing of former undercover CIA agent Valery Plame — will not, after all, be pursuing a criminal indictment against White House svengali Karl Rove.
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June 8, 2006
A Tale of Two Men
American Shock and Awe came to a remote hideaway north of Baghdad Wednesday, when two 500lb bombs delivered by American F-16 fighter jets killed notorious terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and five others gathered with him at a safehouse in the isolated town of Hibhib.
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June 4, 2006
Modern History 101
Invest 45 minutes of your valuable time and understand everything you need to know about why we are in Iraq, and why we’re going into Iran.
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June 3, 2006
Divided We Fall, Part 2
The U.S. Senate will begin debate next week on a constitutional amendment being pushed by President George W. Bush and the White House to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The proposed amendment also prohibits judges from ruling that either the Constitution or any state may give same-sex couples the right to marry or the same legal rights as married couples.
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May 27, 2006
Pants On Fire
President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair mounted a major PR campaign this week, touting progress being made in the War in Iraq, hammering at the theme of a “newborn democracy” struggling to survive there, even offering an olive branch of contrition for “mistakes” and “missteps” they made in the prosecution of the war.
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May 13, 2006
Hero Or Goat?
Jason Leopold, a journalist who contributes regularly to Truthout reported on Friday that Karl Rove informed top officials in the White House he has been indicted and would resign his post(s) immediately on the forthcoming public announcement by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
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