McCain distancing himself from the unpopular Bush is only logical. But I’m not seeing it. He’s following in Bush’s footsteps as far as Iraq is concerned. He promises to continue the Bush tax mantra: take from the poor and give to the rich. I really don’t see much of a difference between the two, except [...]

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World-renowned artist Robert Rauschenberg, 82, has died.
He died at 11:30 p.m. Monday at his home on Captiva. He was on a respirator, according to Jennifer Benton, a longtime friend.
Rauschenberg recently had been hospitalized with pneumonia, but came home last week. His wish was to die peacefully in his bed, Benton said.
He was considered the foremost [...]

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Bernanke is trying to paint a rosy picture of our economy again:

Bernanke: Financial turmoil in markets easing
WASHINGTON (AP) — Turmoil in financial markets has eased somewhat, but the situation is still “far from normal,” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday. [...]
Those efforts appear to be paying off and “have contributed to some improvement in [...]

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The successful GOP plot to have former Democratic governor of Alabama Don Siegelman imprisoned on spurious charges has plenty of twists and turns, but Raw Story’s latest piece on the matter (via DDay) adds some troubling details about a series of break-ins and other crimes committed against targets of the (corrupt) U.S. Attorneys in Alabama: [...]

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The O’Reilly clip… better late than never.
(ADVISORY: Do not play with children in the room.)
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Toby Keith
“I Love This Bar”

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The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.
Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department’s Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, and [...]

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Clinton’s campaign chairman McAuliffe doing damage control on Meet the Press

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If Barr can siphon off some McCain votes, then I wish him luck. I also think it will be interesting to see where Rush Limbaugh goes from here. He doesn’t hide the fact he’s not a fan of John McCain. So will he back Bob Barr… or do his regular two-faced-about-face and start kissing McCain’s [...]

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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) on CNN’s Late Edition, May 11, 2008,  attempting to plant fear in voter’s minds about Obama.   This is sickening.  
 

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Speaking out against the war, female veterans describe regular abuse at the hands of their peers — and the military’s failure to address it.
I knew it was bad, but I didn’t know just how bad. Colonel Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army, grabbed the audience’s attention at a panel called Women in the Military, hosted [...]

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Amendment 2, known as the Florida Marriage Protection Act, will be on the November ballot. The amendment states:
“Inasmuch as a marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid [...]

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