Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s a Swift Boating firestorm a brewin’ in the media and blogopshere over remarks made by General Wes Clark yesterday, which were apparently cropped by Fox, that set the wingnuts in an uproar and caused Barack Obama to jump in an disavow Wes Clark and also diss MoveOn today in a Patriotism speech.
This is as pegged last night turning [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
It’s going to be a wild partying week, with Independence Day coming up on Friday. That means it’s going to be a slow news week. Unfortunately, that does NOT mean that the world will forgo having it’s usual daily nervous breakdown. So, pull up your morning cuppa. It’s time for your [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said today that the big pow wow between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama is poised to happen with in the next 48 hours.
McAuliffe told CNN’s Candy Crowley that now that “President Clinton is back from a five-nation tour during which he attended Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday party,” Clinton and former [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
While none of us know the details, there has been a significant approval of funding for increased covert ops in Iran, according to Seymour Hersh in a story published online last Sundy at the The New Yorker Magazine. The news of the article was reported by MSNBC , outlines Hersh’s article and gets reactions from [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning over and under shotgun, aimed and fired. Before him, a pigeon fell, moments after being released from a box less than 20 yards away. About 25 times that day Comroe fired, hitting about three-fourths of the birds. He was 16 at the time.
“It’s not [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Watch the Unity, NH rally:
From The Trail: Party Unity in NH, as Clinton Talks and Obama Says “She Rocks”
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There was “unity” in Unity, NH today and many of us are hoping it will spread across the country in huges waves that drive Democratic voters out to the polls in November for Barack Obama.
It was a day of choreographed unity — their destination was a rally here in this small western New Hampshire town [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
This new educational program that I got my kids started on takes up a lot more of my time than in the past (mostly because four more subjects have been added to their daily schedule) and so I try not to get myself too riled up so that I can focus when I sit down [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Barack Obama started the ball rolling tonight to help Hillary Clinton pay down her campaign debt, writing a personal check of $2,300 to Clinton as “a goodwill gesture intended to nudge his top donors to help ease Mrs. Clinton’s campaign debt and help the two Democrats move beyond their rivalry to focus on the fall contest.”
“I [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As Stuart noted below, today, the Supreme Court declared “that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to have a gun, not just the right of the states to maintain militias.”
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in the landmark 5-to-4 decision, said the Constitution does not allow “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used [...]
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Filed under: Civil Rights, Democrats, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Politics, Republicans, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Senate, Stuart O'Neill, Supreme Court, World News
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Today the US Supreme Court struck down the Washington DC ban on handguns. While not necessarily impacting any other law or regulation, it was the first time in the history of the United States that the Court had handed down an opinion directly on the 2nd Amendment.
The decision was 5-4 with Justice John Paul Stevens [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
You might want to make sure you have the aloe gel handy because in today’s Ten Post Round-Up there is far too much of the stupid (and you know what they say about the stupid? It burns!)…
1: Jus’ sayin’: If Israel is so anxious to go to war with Iran, they should go [...]
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