Tag: politics
group name: iconoclasm
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . .
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June 04, 2007 04:00 PM EDT --
The world held its breath in 2002 when Daniel Pearl was held by terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan. The American journalist, accused by terrorists of being a CIA operative, was held for nine days and . . .
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June 17, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
Liberal sources have been circulating a google video of Bush at the G8 apparently drinking a beer. Bush, a recovering alcoholic who is a teetotaler, says he has not taken a drink since he was 40. . . .
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January 30, 2007 04:13 PM EST --
Tony Blair gave Catholic adoption agencies all over the UK a twenty month grace period to provide fully nondiscriminatory adoptions to same sex couples, the Guardian reported today. Catholic . . .
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May 24, 2007 01:04 PM EDT --
The Progressive notes that on May 9th, George Bush declared absolute emergency powers for the president:
With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for . . .
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February 01, 2007 01:37 AM EST --
Celebrated racehorse Barbaro was euthanized January 29th, after a series of surgeries failed to provide him with a mobile and pain-free life. Within eight hours, nearly two thousand accounts of . . .
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October 24, 2007 06:41 AM EDT --
In the area around San Diego, an area about twice the size of the city of New Orleans has burned since Sunday . But folks there -- even the over 20,000 people evacuated to Qualcomm Stadium -- are . . .
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February 14, 2007 11:52 PM EST --
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . .
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October 19, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
Have you read an article on the Village Voice web site since 1/1/2004? Then the Feds may be investigating you. Two executives of Village Voice Media have been arrested for violating grand . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . .
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January 04, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
Last night, Barack Obama claimed his victory in the Iowa caucuses, not for himself, but for the people. For the people who supported him, and for the people (Democrat, Independent, Republican, and third . . .
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April 30, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
This week, the Turkish election crisis went to streets as at least 700,000 Turks supported their secular principles of Turkish rule for about a century.
In a turn around from western assumptions, the . . .
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March 05, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
DailyKOS published an article that's getting a little play today, alleging that the Clinton campaign published an attack ad that intentionally colorized Obama's skin to darker, reminiscent . . .
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March 06, 2008 02:57 AM EST --
Over and over again, in this election season, I hear the presidential primary and presidential campaigns reduced to the cult of personality. Will McCain keep us in Iraq? Will Hillary be business . . .
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March 30, 2007 03:12 AM EDT --
Let me tell you a story.
This is the story of a kid from Missouri who found the American Dream in a less cynical part of our recent history. He comes from a family long rooted on this continent, . . .
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March 06, 2007 12:28 PM EST --
Sometimes it's worth revisiting our analyses of the past. Today, Scooter Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice surrounding the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador . . .
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February 25, 2008 03:29 PM EST --
Having recently put my endorsement behind Larry Lessig 's run for the House (still in the Draft Lessig stage), let me say that I am adamantly repelled by another run by Ralph Nader. I don't . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
It's always a little tricky to report on a news event you've just participated in, but Amnesty International's Irrepressible campaign against Internet censorship just had a conference today . . .
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February 23, 2007 03:30 PM EST --
Today's editorial topic is Hillary's Obama problem. There are some great comments there -- go check it out!
Hillary Clinton is the darling of the Democratic Leadership Council, the closest . . .
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