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Colin Powell: US Losing In Iraq

I am sure this was authorized (close friends to the Secretary of State do not talk to the press without clearing ti with said Secretary), but I don’t know what the point owuld be. Tommorrow, he will issue a denial, and his credibility will be even more damaged. Are things so bad that Powell is [...]

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Cause I just rooted for the — yuck — Packers. They just won the President Bowl.

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McCain thinks the OBL tape is “…very helpful to the president..” A Bush campaign official thinks that the tape is a “little gift” to their campaign. So, a mass murder is still on the loose and taunting our efforts to capture him, his organization is still active and killing people, and this is a god [...]

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The Bush Administration’s Justice Department argued in three separate cases that the Justice Department, and only the Justice Department, had the right to sue for voting right violations: Bush administration lawyers argued in three closely contested states last week that only the Justice Department, and not voters themselves, may sue to enforce the voting rights [...]

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Bush Above All Else

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—”I want you to stand, raise your right hands,” and recite “the Bush Pledge,” said Florida state Sen. Ken Pruitt. The assembled mass of about 2,000 in this Treasure Coast town about an hour north of West Palm Beach dutifully rose, arms aloft, and repeated after Pruitt: “I care about freedom and [...]

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Rocky Top Volunteer Tailgate Party

Haven’t had one of these in a while — and it has bonus cute kids in costumes pictures!

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GOP Organized Voter Suppression

Tapped points out that now that the GOP’s attempt to invalidate 35,000 voters has floundered on the fact that they have no evidence that any of the 35,000 voters are frauds, they intend to take advantage of Ohio’s anti-democratic voter challenge laws. They are going to send 3,500 or so “volunteers” — people paid $100 [...]

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More Unguarded Ammo Sites

The Oregonian is reporting that one site was left unguarded for six months: Six months after the fall of Baghdad, a vast Iraqi weapons depot with tens of thousands of artillery rounds and other explosives remained unguarded, according to two U.S. aid workers who say they reported looting of the site to U.S. military officials. [...]

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You Go, Women!

The League of Women Voters – one of the most respectable and reliable non-partisan, pro-democracy organizations in the country – has an outstanding Web site. It includes a function that will identify all the candidates and ballot initiatives a voter will face on election day – very helpful for those who don’t receive detailed ballot [...]

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The Non-Reality-Based Community

It really is true that Bushies are simply not a “reality-based community”. The [White House] aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and [...]

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