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Entries from August 2004

Flip-Flop, Bush Was Taking a Bath

August 31st, 2004 · 3 Comments

Chepooka wrote yesterday about George Bush flip-flopping on the war. “It doesn’t get any better than this,” she said and suggested that fellow bloggers spread the word. I wasn’t going to do it just yet for two reasons. One is that I was planning to work today on the second installment of “Marbury v. Madison,” […]

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Tags: The Bush Regime

Olympic “Winners”

August 30th, 2004 · No Comments

I’m not sure what these two incidents show. Incident Number One: Yang, the bronze medalist, was wrongly docked a tenth of a point on his parallel bars routine. If he had received the proper score, he would have won gold and Hamm would have won silver. “U.S. Gymnast Asked To Return Gold,” CBS News Online, […]

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Tags: Miscellany

Voice of Compassion, Redux

August 29th, 2004 · No Comments

The other day, I wondered over the possibility that Vice-President Dick Cheney had become “the Voice of Compassion” for the Republican party.

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Tags: Politics-In-General

Marbury v. Madison: Part I

August 29th, 2004 · 2 Comments

President George Bush frequently complains about “activist judges,” most notably in calling for a constitutional Amendment to “protect” marriage. A future article — already partially written — will look more closely at the purpose of the Constitution and explain why such a constitutional Amendment is anathema to that purpose. This article will be the first […]

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Tags: Law and Legal Issues

Obnoxious Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness . . . and Such

August 27th, 2004 · No Comments

Many people apparently think I’m merely an unpaid writer of obnoxious blog articles — or is that an obnoxious unpaid writer of blog articles? — but there’s more to this fish than meets the eye.

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Tags: Writing

Where In The World Is Hal Lindsey?

August 27th, 2004 · No Comments

If I were an evangelical Christian, I’d be carefully re-reading the book of Revelation. (Since I’m not an evangelical Christian, I can spell — and say — “Revelation” instead of “Revelations.“) “Bush has shown an ideological commitment to the literalist Christian tradition at the expense of the broader view of the larger religious community,” National […]

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Tags: The Bush Regime

The Republican Voice of Compassion

August 26th, 2004 · No Comments

I’m sure it will surprise you, as much as it surprised me, to hear that Dick Cheney has become “the Voice of Compassion” for the Republican Party. At a campaign rally, in Davenport, Iowa, on Tuesday, Cheney spoke supportively about gay relationships, saying “freedom means freedom for everyone,” when asked about his stand on gay […]

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Tags: Politics-In-General

bin Forgotten

August 25th, 2004 · No Comments

I was reading the ACT Blog and someone had posted a comment there stating that if Clinton had gotten bin Laden, we wouldn’t have the mess we have today. I couldn’t resist posting a comment: Someone above mentioned that “if Clinton had done the right thing” and “gotten bin Laden” we wouldn’t be in the […]

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Tags: The War President

Libel v. The First Amendment

August 24th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Anyone who has been reading my blog for awhile knows that I’ve frequently taken hardline stands in favor of the First Amendment. When people here have cursed me and called me names, I have not said “there ought to be limits to freedom,” as George Bush did when someone’s website made fun of him. Those […]

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Tags: Freedom of Speech

Bush: He’s So Arresting

August 24th, 2004 · No Comments

Increasingly, Americans are being arrested and/or losing their jobs for speaking out against George Bush. Last month, Charleston City Council apologized to two protesters arrested for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts to the president’s July 4 rally. The pair were taken from the event in restraints after revealing T-shirts with Bush’s name crossed out on the front […]

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Tags: The Bush Regime