33 QuickLinks
Friday, June 22, 2007
Will the Progressive Majority Emerge?
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
For Election Day - Lest We Forget
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Larry Gelbart's laundry list of this administration's failures.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Watching American TV from Beruit
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Kucinich Calls on Bush to Push for Cease Fire
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
The Trumpet Summons Us Again
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A stirring article on this crucial election cycle, whose ramifications may be felt for a generation.
Monday, June 5, 2006
Russ Feingold - Bucking Convention All the Way to the White House?
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Chris Cillizza's take on Feingold's chances at the White House. He refers to Russ as "Dean 2.0" which may or may not be helpful.
Friday, June 2, 2006
How They Stole Ohio
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The GOP 4-step Recipe to 'Blackwell' the USA in 2008
Abracadabra: Three Million Votes Vanish
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The Oregon Voting Revolution
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How the Oregon mail voting system has transformed voting in that state.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Olbermann & Turley - Bush Disregard for Constitution
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Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley discusses blatent dismissal of constitution by Bush. "Frankly, I'm not too sure of what he thought he was swearing to when he took the oath of office to uphold the Constitution and our laws."
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Chips down, Bush prepares a Hail Mary bet
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Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Decades later, Marines hunt Vietnam-era deserters
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Forty years later, in the summer of 2005, Texiero — now known as Gerome Conti — was taken into custody by police in Tarpon Springs, Fla., after the Marine Corps tracked him down.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Poll: Cheney Less Popular Than OJ
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“How low is 18 percent?” This was a headline in the Washington Post on March 5. The 18 percent is the support rate of vice president Dick Cheney from a public opinion survey conducted by CBS.
The Washington Post included the support rates of notoriously famous people to prove how low 18% is.
Michael Jackson, who was alleged of sexually harassing an underage boy, and American football player O.J. Simpson, who caused a huge clamor for being suspected of murdering his wife in 1994, each maintained 25 percent and 29 percent favorable impression rates, respectively.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
India says to complete nuclear separation by 2014
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India will open 14 of its 22 nuclear plants for international inspections by 2014 as part of a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation deal with the United States, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
US asks court to drop ex-detainees' torture suit
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The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit charging that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears responsibility for the torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Russian offer to Iran ruffles West
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Russia has offered to let Iran do some atomic research if it refrains from enriching uranium on an industrial scale for 7 to 9 years, diplomats said on Tuesday, cracking big-power unity on how to stop Tehran getting the bomb.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Four killed in blasts in Indian holy city
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At least four people were killed and over a dozen wounded in two separate explosions on Tuesday in the Hindu pilgrimage town of Varanasi in northern India, police said.
Television reports said up to 12 may have died.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Israel's Olmert says will reduce settlement funding
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Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Tuesday to reduce spending on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank after an Israeli election his party is expected to win, underscoring plans to quit isolated enclaves.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Lavrov in US for talks on Iran, Hamas
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Growing U.S.-Russian tensions including differences over Iran and the Palestinian militant group Hamas are expected to be aired in talks on Tuesday between Russia's foreign minister and the Bush administration.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Hostages in Iraq seen in video
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Three of four Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq were shown in a video played on Al Jazeera television on Tuesday and looked in good health.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Dana Reeve dies at 44 of lung cancer
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Widow of actor Christopher Reeve fought for paralysis cure
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Fastow looms large at Enron trial
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Former finance chief’s testimony is highly anticipated
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Middle Eastern investment up in U.S.
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Proposed ports deal is just part of flood of oil wealth spilling ashore
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Several explosions rock Baghdad, nearby cities
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At least 14 killed, 52 wounded; new parliament to meet on March 12
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Chertoff says ports deal would improve Homeland Security
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff yesterday said the proposed takeover of terminal operations at five U.S. ports by a Dubai company would give U.S. law enforcement a better handle on security at U.S. terminal operations, the paid-restricted Wall Street Journal reports Monday.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Bechtel contractor, based in Dubai, gets lucrative U.S. security contracts
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A British security firm headquartered in Dubai has won lucrative contracts for U.S. security in Iraq and the United States, providing security in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and training Iraqi port security officers under the Coalition Provisional Authority. Don't forget that they funded Neil Bush's new business to get "Every Child Left as Road Kill" education contracts in FL & TX too. Money from Dubai just pouring into Bush Family Fortunes and that of their cronies.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
8,000 desert during Iraq war
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At least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. military have deserted since the Iraq war began, Pentagon records show, although the overall desertion rate has plunged since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Most Americans see Iraq civil war as likely: poll
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Eight in 10 Americans believe that recent sectarian violence in Iraq has made civil war likely, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
'Specific' info on NSA eavesdropping?
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A new lawsuit may have what other cases don't: official records about those under surveillance.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
South Dakota bans most abortions
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The Republican governor of South Dakota on Monday signed a law banning nearly all abortions in the state, directly challenging the U.S. Supreme Court's legalization of the practice 33 years ago.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Revised Patriot Act targets allergy, cold meds
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Besides terrorism, the bill takes aim at the production of methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug that cannot be manufactured without a key ingredient of everyday cold and allergy medicines. The bill would impose new limits next month for how much relief a person can buy over the counter.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Cunningham's Corruption Connections
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On Friday, former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in federal prison for taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for lucrative defense contracts, among other crimes. It was the longest sentence ever meted out to a congressman. While it's the last we'll hear from Cunningham for some time, the larger scandal is just beginning to unfold.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
America Anesthetized
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For more than four years, the American people have been anesthetized by a steady flow of propaganda that has influenced the public to believe "facts" that aren't facts and to ignore ugly realities that would otherwise shame the nation's conscience. Only recently have Americans begun to shake themselves awake, but the Bush administration's residual success in misshaping U.S. opinion was underscored again when a poll found that 85 percent of American troops in Iraq believed they were there to avenge the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Friday, March 3, 2006
GW-Battleground 2006 Poll Reveals Environment is Negative towards All; Partisan Politics is Creating Distrust
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The George Washington University Battleground 2006 Poll finds that the events of the past few months have created an anti-Washington mood among the American electorate. This leaves the door open on the question of which party will be able to translate these negative sentiments into major gains at the polls in 2006.
