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ABC News is reporting sources have told them Bush, Cheney, Rice, rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet and Ashcroft held meetings to discuss and approve “enhanced interrogation techniques. Gee, ya think we’ll hear about this from the MSM? Naw………not important. The American Idol super show will draw more attention than this story. I wonder how [...]

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From an email I received from Democrats.com :
On Tuesday, Gen. Petraeus told Congress, “We haven’t turned any corners, we haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel.”
So our top General in Iraq has no plans to end our endless occupation. But of course, we all knew that.
That means Congress has to end the [...]

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“There is not a conflict, there is not an appearance of a conflict,” Mr. Ashcroft told a House Judiciary Committee hearing this morning.
Not even the appearance of one, huh? Yep, that’s gall.
Nice Work If You Can Get It: John Ashcroft’s Big Payday
John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General, insisted today that there was nothing wrong with [...]

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You can watch the video of this hearing at Senator Nelson’s website. Following was in an email I received from his office. Senator Bill Nelson doesn’t always vote the way I’d like him to, but he’s got this one right, and hopefully congress will do something to correct this injustice. It’s so [...]

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From Harpers:
Bilal Hussein Exonerated
AP Photographer Bilal Hussein has been in American detention since April 2006. As the second anniversary of his captivity approaches, Bilal has achieved a major breakthrough. Yesterday in Baghdad, an Iraqi Judicial Commission reviewing his case took ten days to reach a conclusion: No basis existed for the terrorism-related charges which had [...]

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Toni Braxton - Another Sad Love Song
Get well soon, Toni!
Four More Toni Braxton Shows Canceled After Hospitalization
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Four more Toni Braxton shows have been canceled as she recuperates following her hospitalization with chest pain.
“We-re going to go ahead and cancel her shows tonight and for the rest of the week,” [...]

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Stupid, senseless murders to begin in 5, 4, 3 , 2, 1…
Fla. lawmakers OK take-your-guns-to-work law
TALLAHASSEE, Florida - Most Florida residents would be allowed to take guns to work under a measure passed by Florida lawmakers on Wednesday.
The bill, allowing workers to keep guns in their cars for self-protection, was approved by the Florida Senate [...]

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Hurricane Katrina showed them they could get away with it.
NEW YORK - The upward trend in energy prices showed no sign of abating Wednesday as gasoline set yet another record at the pump and crude oil flirted with its own milestone in the futures market.
The national average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas [...]

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The situation in Haiti is horrible, with hungry mobs storming the Presidential palace. Food prices have risen so, people are going hungry. Global food stocks are at their lowest since 1980. From the Guardian:
Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the UN’s top humanitarian official warned yesterday [...]

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No shock here…….Republican economics has taken hold.
The gap between rich and poor in many states has broadened at a quickening pace since the last U.S. recession, which could make it difficult for low-income families to weather the current economic downturn, according to a report issued Wednesday.
Since the late 1990’s average incomes have declined 2.5 [...]

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