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Archive for: August 31st, 2007
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
On the heels of a scathing report issued by the Defense Department’s inspector general that took high-level Pentagon officials to task for allowing an evangelical Christian organization unfettered access to the Department of Defense (DOD) to promote its fundamentalist agenda, comes word the Pentagon’s top chaplain opened its doors yet again to another evangelical group [...]
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Comedy Club Unhappy With Dick’s Behavior
via The Huffington Post
COLUMBUS, Ohio - David Stroupe said it was one of the worst experiences with a performer in the history of the Funny Bone Comedy Club.
He was referring to Andy Dick, a former co’star on the 1990s sitcom “NewsRadio,” who appeared at the Funny Bone last weekend.
Stroupe, the club’s managing partner, said the [...]
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Bush Seeks Legal Immunity for Telecoms
by KATHERINE SHRADER
cross posted from The Huffington Post
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration wants the power to grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that are slapped with privacy suits for cooperating with the White House’s controversial warrantless eavesdropping program.
The authority would effectively shut down dozens of lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies accused of helping set up [...]
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Craig Is Expected to Resign
The Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho - Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday.
Craig will announce at a news conference in Boise Saturday morning that he will resign effective Sept. [...]
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Book Review: “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”
By Gail Russell Chaddock
The Christian Science Monitor
Joe Biden’s Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics is the most unlikely of campaign biographies: It’s a ripping good read.
Forget all you’ve heard about Delaware’s six-term US senator - that he’s a policy wonk (apparently that’s a bad thing), or that he doesn’t know when to stop talking, [...]
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Thompson Gives Cash Back
Not a good way to start if you ask me. He’s breaking the law before he even enters the race.
Fred Thompson, facing scrutiny for stockpiling cash while he purported to be only exploring the possibility of a presidential bid, is returning some contributions to supporters.
Thompson, who plans to officially enter the race for the [...]
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A Delusional Editorial From Karl Rove
Riiggghhttt…….. I think Karl Rove is delusional. I still say history will view Bush as the lying liar that he is. The man who trampled on the constitution, the torturer, the pre-emptive invader, the man who totally fucked up the Middle East, the illegal wiretapper, the man who politicized every last department of [...]
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Judge finds Duke prosecutor in contempt
By AARON BEARD
The Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. - Mike Nifong, the disgraced former Durham County district attorney, was held in criminal contempt of court Friday for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.
Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III sentenced Nifong, who has already been stripped [...]
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Plane Carrying Lawmakers Attacked in Iraq
from CQ Politics
Congressional sources confirmed late Thursday that a military transport plane carrying three Republican senators and a Democratic representative was attacked by either missiles or rocket-propelled grenades after taking off from the Baghdad airport.
Sens. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., James M. Inhofe, R-Okla., Mel Martinez, R-Fla., and Rep. Robert E. “Bud” Cramer, D-Ala., were [...]
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