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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
1: Is America an empire?
2: Why or why not?
3: Should we be?
JMJ
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Yes, there is a group out there known as C.A.I.D. - Conservatives Against Intelligent Design! But it's not quite what it's cracked up to be...
CAID holds that there is no conflict between evolution and religion because each speaks to a different level of understanding and to a different level of ...
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
The Iraq War is and always was about OIL.
The War never had nor now has anything to do with bringing DEMOCRACY to Iraq and the Middle East.
The WMD excuse for invading and occupying Iraq was a lie.
Saddam Hussein had no working relationship with Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and ...
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
The Second Amendment states, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
KEEP and BEAR arms.
I think that's just great.
It says nothing, however, about MAKING, SELLING, TRADING, IMPORTING, EXPORTING, and BUYING arms. ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Well, the fuckin' idiot con voters (men who hate women and women who hate themselves) got what they wanted - a SCOTUS who rules to the very letter of the law with no room for interpretation whatsoever...
From the Salt Lake Tribune...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday limited workers' ability ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Republican voters, not being the savviest of citizens, are easily drawn to celebrity. In 1980 and 2000, the GOP base, along with "swing" voters who swing which ever way the wind blows, successfully inserted these two inept clowns into the Oval Office.
Fame, even if earned only by playing roles for ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Q: Isn't it better to "fight them over there" than fight them over here?
A: Not for thousands of dead soldiers, a million dead Iraqis, 2 1/2 trillion dollars, the animosity of the world, and endless years of war. It would be a lot easier if they just ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Well, about one thing anyway...
On Tuesday night, FOX "News" had it's "Slugfest Down in Dixie" - the second GOP presidential debate. As usual, FOX reduced the debate to a silly affair with endless boxing analogies to make it seem exciting. However the broad, generalized questions for the "Big Three," Guiliani, ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
For many years there has been a political class in America that existed to maintain the status quo and resist change by spreading fear and loathing (to quote a late clever observer) among it's base. It was not a particularly partisan class, but more local and regionally so. But as ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
From the WSJ...
Bush Statement on CAFE Standards...
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. Good afternoon. I just finished a meeting with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Secretaries of Transportation and Agriculture, and the Deputy Secretary of Energy. Thank you all for being here.
EPA Administrator Steven L. Johnson graduated ...
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