In the News Archive
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In the News
- Children “will have to be uninsured for at least a year before they’ll be allowed to participate [in CHIP], the Bush administration has informed state health officials,” which makes all the sense in the world. (If you are living in a bizarro world.) – Bloomberg nixes his third-party bid (or so it seems): “Nobody’s [...]
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- The legacy of George W. Bush: “Mr. Bush’s vision has become so identified with his own unpopularity that at a recent debate Republican candidates couldn’t seem to distance themselves from his democracy-spreading agenda fast enough.“ – I don’t really understand Rove’s angle with his continued outward criticism of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Is he [...]
In the News… Giuliani.
- What is the deal with people worrying about Wikipedia? “WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.” Lame. – Democrat Joe Biden, who is still running for president, despite bombing the reyonthehill primary, on his son being deployed (potentially) in Iraq: “I don’t [...]
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- Not surprising, politicians are fearful of their eventual YouTube moment. Just don’t say anything stupid, or do anything uncool. – Banning smoking in cars with children is a good idea (actually, it is worth the death penalty, in my opinion), however, smokers’ rights people are up in arms over the idea… “My premise here [...]
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- Google is now offering Sun’s StarOffice for free, a $70 value, in the latest battle with Microsoft and their stranglehold on office productivity software. (By the way, I hate Outlook.) – How long will the religious right allow Romney to continuously sway on the abortion issue, “from the ‘effectively pro-choice’ position he held until [...]
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- Mitt Romney came in first in Iowa’s straw poll, but more surprisingly, Mike Huckabee came in second. The campaign buttons are being made now: “I ♥ Huckabee.“ – Facebook is considering going public in possibly “two years that would almost certainly be the biggest public offering since Google.“ – And Turd Blossom is retiring, [...]
In the News… Choice.
- Internet hunting isn’t real. “‘Internet hunting would be wrong,’ said a Delaware representative who opposed his state’s ban [on internet hunting]. ‘But there’s a lot that would be wrong, if it were happening.’” Where are the gun nuts on the issue of a federal ban on internet hunting? – Cheney is urging the president [...]
In the News… Bush, Protected by AT&T, Goes Ape over Easy Money, to the Ire of Iowa and New Hampshire.
- Bush on the attorney general. “Why would I hold somebody accountable who’s done nothing wrong?” Bush must be thinking of someone else. – New research “discredits that iconic illustration of human evolution that begins with a knuckle-dragging ape and ends with a briefcase-carrying man,” but what it does not do, is support creationism. Using [...]
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- With the ethics reform bill passed through Congress, the lobbyists ability to gift an elected official has been made tougher, however, “[lobbyists] can still throw political fund-raisers.“ – Congress signing off on the eavesdropping position, it is clear that Bush’s tough-on-terrorism stance still frightens democrats in Washington. – Britain’s (new) Prime Minister Gordon Brown [...]
In the News… Blogs.
- A blogger’s union? Umh, no comment. Alright one: I hate it. – Speaking of bloggers, Yearly Kos attendants look all the same. “[The audience is] mostly white. More male than female. It’s not very diverse.” I was going to say something profound than realized that I’m white, more male than female. – And uber-blogger [...]
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- The republican faithful are delusional. “Even those Republicans who think the war is going badly now are mostly inclined to call the war the right thing, anyway.“ – If I were a republican, I’d vote for Ron Paul, solely because he “did not vote for President George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004.” That says [...]
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- Ana Marie Cox at Time has started a morning news segment, which may just put me out of business. Still, it’s great that Ms. Wonkette is “officially” back. – A senate bill that passed committee will for the first time all the government to regulate tobacco. “The bill would allow the FDA to reduce [...]
In the News… $1,000,000,000,000.
- What was originally supposed to be a weekend-long invasion, with the reconstruction paid exclusively by oil revenues, “the war in Iraq could ultimately cost well over a trillion dollars.“ – Impeachment is in order. “Attorney General Alberto Gonzales symbolizes everything that is wrong with the Bush administration: cronyism, incompetence and the culture of corruption.“ [...]
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- Republicans may duck the questions from the American people as the two leading GOP candidates — Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani — cite scheduling conflicts as the reason they can’t make the proposed YouTube debate. Just admit it, you don’t want to make an ass out of yourself, like some of the democrats did. [...]
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- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “has told environmentalists she supports raising fuel economy standards to at least 35 miles per gallon and requiring utilities to generate 20 percent of their power from renewable sources such as wind, solar or biomass by 2020.” Unfortunately, the energy bill being voted on doesn’t include either. A do-nothing Congress? [...]
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- The Federal government trampled on states’ rights as the DEA raided Los Angeles medical marijuana clinics. “The bust netted five arrests, large quantities of marijuana and cash, and even pot brownies and cookies.“ – The nation’s top cop lied again to Congress, and “senators [now] consider whether a perjury investigation should be opened.“ – [...]
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- The amount of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are so numerous that the military is unable to hold memorial “services after each death, [and instead, plan to hold them] collectively once a month.“ – There is an (unauthorized) rogue fundraising effort called “Californians for Obama” that has raided thousands, with zero dollars going to [...]
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- Come September, the rhetoric from the administration will turn from “wait until September” to “achieve sustainable security [in Iraq] by the summer of 2009.“ – The democrats took part in the CNN-YouTube debate last night which, with all sincerity, wasn’t too bad. CNN could have trimmed a few of the questions, but overall, not [...]
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- Former presidential aspirant Senator Russ Feingold (of Wisconsin) will be introducing a censure resolution that will “condemn Bush and his administration for misleading Congress in the lead-up to the war and how it has been carried out, as well as for failing to properly train and equip the U.S. military.“ – The newly-redesigned Talking [...]
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- “More than 60 percent [of voters] think [Hillary Clinton] is likely to win the presidency.” Wow. – Bill Richardson has gotten rich since leaving the Clinton White House. Join the club. If Bloomberg joins the race, the personal wealth of the candidates is going to trump the GDP of several small countries. – Liberals [...]
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