Archive for September, 2005
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
I know, I know, it's Al Jazeera, but you have to check out their analysis of Israel's inexplicable decision to attack Gaza:
Some optimistic analysts described the withdrawal of 8000 Jewish settlers from the Strip as both a dramatic and important moment in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that can bring more hope ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Stop the ACLU is starting a new Carnival of True Civil Liberties
Here’s the ground rules.
#1. Post must be original material, no crosspost copy and paste stuff. It must be anti-ACLU in nature, or having to do with our civil liberties that are being stripped away via ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
E. J. Dionne is stratergizing about how the Dems can win. I think he inadvertantly went a little too far in revealing the media's role in all of this, saying:
"The flow of negative news about the administration will do much of the Democrats' work for them."
Apparantly the MSM should keep ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
There's a town in New Mexico that has crosses in their logo. A federal lawsuit has been filed to get the crosses removed from the logo because, "The crosses serve no purpose other than to disenfranchise and discredit non-Christian citizens."
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Main Entry: dis·fran·chise
Pronunciation: (")dis-'fran-"chIz
Function: transitive verb
: to deprive of ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
when a Hurricane hits on your "big day"...
Angry has more today... Cindy Sheehan: Taken to the Woodshed.
Cindy's been crying about the coverage of Hurricane Rita, seems it's taking away her coverage...
And the Daily Kos'ers have been telling her off...
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Check out Angry's post about Moore et al's Katrina "relief efforts". Layer upon layer of hypocrisy, incompetence and perhaps some misappropriations, all in one post. I suggest you read it all.
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Senators Kohl and Feingold of Wisconsin and Senator Leahy of Vermont joined all ten Republicans on the Judiciary Committee in recommending that Judge John Roberts be appointed to Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
On 1, Oct. 19, 1976 Congress passed an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which gave the Courts the power to award attorney's fees in civil rights cases to the prevailing party. 'The Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976' was passed with high hopes, ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post from Harry Reid (D):
Deference to the President
Thursday, September 22, 2005; Page A24
The Post's Sept. 21 editorial "Words That Will Haunt" made a fair point in criticizing one sentence of my floor statement on the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
The Washington Post slams Harry Reid over a comment he made yesterday while announcing that he will not vote for Judge John Roberts.
The president is not entitled to very much deference in staffing the third branch of government, the judiciary.
Excuse me, but the Constitution itself confers that very deference upon ...
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