The union-haters must still be in hog heaven over an AFL-CIO-sponsored poll that showed most Massachusetts union households supported Republican Scott Brown over union-endorsed Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
The margin was 49 to 46 percent. The numbers remind me again of Pogo’s apt observation: “We have [...]
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Filed under: In The News
PART 1
The president of the Associated Press (AP) was spewing venom at the Bush-Cheney administration for having turned the Department of Defense into a propaganda machine.
Americans “expect honest answers about what’s happening to their sons and daughters,” Tom Curley told journalism students and faculty at the University of Kansas. Listing innumerable ways the Pentagon had [...]
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Personally, I gave up watchingKeith Olbermann months ago, when it was clear that his primary coverage had become biased. James Poniewozik exaimines Olbermann’s latest “gasket” blowing commentary directed at Hillary Clinton and says:
But mostly his outburst reminds me of how the long Democratic primary has divided the left-of-center media (or at least, the media outlets [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, In The News, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, TV
That the administration is determined to prove itself above the law is certainly sufficient grounds for impeachment, but there is a far more compelling reason to get the impeachment train out of the station. Bush and Cheney are both still sitting around with too much spare time on their hands, and these dudes get dangerous [...]
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Filed under: Dick Cheney, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq, Politics, Republicans
My enthusiasm for the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama (D, Ill.) just dipped a couple of notches.
Why?
Well, I consider sound judgment and common sense to be prerequisites to taking on the most critical presidential term since, perhaps, the Civil War. See how YOU think he scores here:
Associated Press story, from the International Herald Tribune (NY [...]
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Filed under: Election '08
I grew concerned when I found out that Dick Cheney was no longer part of the Executive Branch of this government. There was a void at the top that needed to be filled. Dick was the brains of this Presidency and he was no longer part of this Executive Department.
But today, I learned [...]
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This morning evokes thoughts of our 34th President, Dwight David Eisenhower. He died on this day, March 28, 1969, thirty-eight years ago.
Not much of an anniversary, but in this time of Bush, Cheney, Rove and Gonzales, the man everybody called Ike is more and more a reminder of a lost American decency.
I met the general-turned-politician [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Karl Rove, Politics, Republicans
Cross Posted From Article of Faith
Woodward: Kissinger Advising Bush on War:
“Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush and Vice President Cheney about Iraq, telling them that “victory is the only meaningful exit strategy,” author and journalist Bob Woodward said. The Washington Post editor’s third book on the Bush administration, “State of Denial,” comes out next [...]
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