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Comedy Central via crooksandliars.com
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Stephen Colbert tells us that Bush is a lot like Jesus, and that the recent crop of political sinners could see that if they just had a little faith.
Posted on Mar 4, 2006
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The bribery conviction nets him eight years--the longest term meted out to a congressman in decades.
Posted on Mar 4, 2006
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But this total does not include money for some relatively small costs--like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after this year.
Posted on Mar 4, 2006
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The prominent opposition of Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) to Bush’s Dubai Ports deal may have earned him some punishment from the White House: The Pentagon isn’t providing him a plane for his planned delegation to Iraq.
Posted on Mar 4, 2006
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But the retail giant will allow pharmacists who object to filling a Plan B prescription to refer customers to another pharmacy.
Posted on Mar 4, 2006
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According to the strategy being mulled, President Bush would simply declare victory over obesity and announce a plan to withdraw most low-carb products from supermarket shelves by the end of 2006. (satire)
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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A New York Times reporter writes: “Four years after the Taliban were ousted from power by the American military, their presence is bigger and more menacing than ever, say police and government officials, village elders, farmers and aid workers across southern Afghanistan.”
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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We learned last week that the Coast Guard had warned of terrorist infiltration of the UAE, the country angling to take over control of major U.S. ports. The White House assured us that those warnings had been addressed. Now Sens. Collins and Lieberman are charging in a sharply worded letter that the warnings were never addressed.
How many more lies will emerge from the murky depths of this port-deal fiasco?
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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In a rare interview with the BBC, the Guantanamo detainee says that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture: “Death in this situation is better than being alive and staying here without hope,” he says.
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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The video that made a liar out of Bush on Katrina has reignited the controversy over his administration’s incompetent response to the hurricane.
Democrats are calling for an independent probe into the catastrophe, and the video has even taken enough of the heat off ex-FEMA Director Michael “Heckuva Job” Brown so that he’s now calling for the firing of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff.
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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From Fox News via Newsbusters
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Did Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg fall asleep while hearing a key redistricting case—as Fox charges? If so, most traditional media outlets didn’t report it.
A conservative website poses an interesting question here: if Justice Thomas or Scalia fell asleep, would most news outlets ignore that, as well?
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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Only nine Democrats and one Independent voted against the most sweeping abridgement of American freedoms in a generation.
Some of the heroes: Jim Jeffords, Russ Feingold, Robert Byrd…
Some of the villains: Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Barack Obama…
Check out the bottom of this AP story for the full list.
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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From crooksandliars.com
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In a hilarious exchange, ex-conservative Huffington defends herself against charges of treachery from the arch-conservative Stephen Colbert.
After months of also-ran status, “The Colbert Report” has been giving “The Daily Show” a run for its money lately (no small feat, considering that “The Daily Show” is perhaps the best program on television).
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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Bush’s historic deal with India will shield some Indian nuclear plants from international inspections. A proliferation expert tells the N.Y. Times that this will allow India to “amass as many nuclear weapons as it wants. This is Santa Claus negotiating.”
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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A retired Texas schoolteacher pays off a larger-than-usual chunk of his credit card bill--and the payment gets frozen as Homeland Security investigates. “It’s scary how easily someone in Homeland Security can get permission to spy,” says the teacher.
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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Thismodernvoice.com
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Bill O’Reilly and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann have been feuding for a while now (background story here, a video example, and another clip), and on Thursday, when a caller to O’Reilly’s show merely mentioned Olbermann’s name, Bill cut the line and said, “We have your phone number and we’re going to turn it over to Fox security, and you’re going to get a visit"--as though the caller was threatening O’Reilly--when in fact O’Reilly was threatening the caller!
UPDATE: FOX security calls back
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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Truly shocking: White House lawyers are arguing that the new law banning cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees does not apply to people held at Guantanamo.
Of course, we should have seen this coming when Bush, upon signing the law, brushed off Congress and America by reserving the right to ignore the law under his powers as commander in chief.
Posted on Mar 3, 2006
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Bush never let the nation in on the fact that the Energy and State departments had given him reports that cast major doubts on Saddam’s WMD capacity and his willingness to attack the U.S. The National Journal has this major exclusive.
It has become undeniable that Bush & Co. never had any intention of allowing America to properly weigh all the evidence available on Saddam’s prewar capabilities and intentions. (Hat tip: Brad Blog)
Posted on Mar 2, 2006
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avemaria.com
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The founder of Domino’s Pizza is planning on spending $250 million to create a Florida town with no abortions, no porn and no birth control.
Civil libertarians are threatening to sue, and liberal Catholics are likening the idea to Islamic fundamentalism.
Couldn’t the guy put his money where it’s really needed, like toward schools in Darfur? Or a pizza crust that doesn’t resemble a sponge full of grease? (Hat tip: Huff Post)
Posted on Mar 2, 2006
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The legendary CBS anchorman pens a column attacking our nation’s “inhumane” drug war: “Nothing will change until someone has the courage to stand up and say what so many politicians privately know: The war on drugs has failed.”
Posted on Mar 2, 2006
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Even though Germany sat out the invasion of Iraq, its spies in Baghdad passed on reams of information to the U.S. command, according to classified Berlin files.
Posted on Mar 2, 2006
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Washington’s Overrated ‘Old Hands’
