It should come as no surprise to anyone that after years of fronting for the White House instead of reporting real news, FOX now has a man actually inside the White House in what used to be — before the days of this Administration, at least — an important position. And anyway, this isn’t the […]

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How much more terrible can things get in the United States? Apparently, somebody protested today. If you can’t expect people who disagree with the Administration to keep their mouths shut in the United States, well, what exactly is the world coming to?

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Vote for the Republican activity about which you are most proud: The use and manipulation of false intelligence to justify an invasion of Iraq. Letting Colin Powell present false information about Iraq to the United Nations. Sending an insufficient number of troops to Iraq for the invasion. Failure to properly outfit the military for the […]

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A friend sent me a link to an article written by Daniel Klaidman, Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas of Newsweek. The article caught my attention because it wasn’t the usual story about the Bush Administration shutting down liberals who had somehow managed to sneak into government jobs — you know, those pesky idiot scientists, […]

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I don’t exactly know what to do with this. Anyone who thinks this is a coincidence just hasn’t been paying enough attention to the workings of our government lately. American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets into the […]

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Apparently, the Bush Administration has learned nothing from Hurricane Katrina. I had some hope early on that this failure of theirs would stir a hurricane of its own. But after recent revelations that the President has ordered illegal spying — something which even stirred both houses of Congress to finally try to limit his power […]

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If —without requiring a warrant — we allowed law enforcement officers to search people or their homes whenever they wanted, or intercept their mail, or listen in on their phone calls, crime rates would go down. There would be less murder. There would be fewer robberies. Burglaries would drop significantly. The so-called “war on drugs” […]

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I don’t know, I could have put this one under “Stupidity,” since it really requires all Americans for this to work — or not work, as the case may be — but since it is an outgrowth of the unilateral decisions of the Bush Administration and the oil executives with whom they work, it’s another […]

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It’s hard to believe that I’m going to be saying this, but “Special thanks to Nick Meyer” for pointing me to the following quote, said to be from Bill Maher’s closing bit the other night on Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO), to the President of the United States, George Bush: Mr. President, this job […]

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Mark King welcomes me to this morning with the following email: Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb. Its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the […]

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