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Congress Has Given Up on Immigration Policies
Oops, did they realize that all of the ideas were absolutely ridiculous and bad for big business (and maybe could hurt their chances with the Hispanic vote?)

Posted on: 09.05.2006

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Forsaking Politics, Bush Has Low-Key Labor Day
Perhaps the only day of his entire tenure.

Posted on: 09.05.2006

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Browse Political Ads
Check out all the new crazy (read: negative) political ads.

Posted on: 09.05.2006

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Many 9/11 Workers Have Lung Issues, Report Says
It's no surprise that enough wasn't done to protect them.

Posted on: 09.05.2006

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Sen. Stevens is 'the secret senator'
Oh wait, does the Tube-meister not want anyone to find out about his $223 million for a bridge to nowhere?

Posted on: 08.30.2006

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Women Suddenly Scarce Among Justices' Clerks
As the court has swung into a more right-wing conservative one, it's no real surprise that women are left behind.

Posted on: 08.30.2006

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First Source of C.I.A. Leak Admits Role, Lawyer Says
Dick Armitage? Are we sure it's not another Dick (as in Cheney?)

Posted on: 08.30.2006

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Rumsfeld Says War Critics Haven't Learned Lessons of History
But the Bush administration has? I guess they paid such good attention to history, that we have to blame something else for the fact that the Sunnis and Shia are killing each other.

Posted on: 08.30.2006

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A Flick of a Lighter Kills Scores of Gas-Looting Iraqis
67 people died trying to get gas.

Posted on: 08.30.2006

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Census Reports Slight Increase in '05 Incomes
Due to more jobs in families not higher wages.

Posted on: 08.30.2006

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Bush Repeats Vow to Help New Orleans
Well he hasn't done much thus far. People need to hold his administration accountable.

Posted on: 08.30.2006

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Climate change a threat to development: World Bank
Meanwhile the Bush administration wants to fund more research! Because apparantly they haven't been paying attention for the past few decades.

Posted on: 08.29.2006

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A year later, Katrina haunts Bush in polling
Because he still hasn't done anything constructive.

Posted on: 08.29.2006

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Rumsfeld: Bush foes lack courage on terror
I think the Bush administration as a whole is who is suffering from "moral and intellectual confusion".

Posted on: 08.29.2006

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Rep. Katherine Harris: Church-state separation 'a lie'
She went on to say that not electing Christians allows for 'legislating sin'. I guess it's not a sin to do backhanded lobbying deals and accept bribes huh?

Posted on: 08.28.2006

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Allen Calls Webb Aide, Apologizes For Remark
It's pretty inconsistent with what he's saying to his base, which is essentially that it's no big deal and that the crazy "leftists" are creating a "feeding frenzy". Right, racist Allen.

Posted on: 08.25.2006

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America: Freedom to Fascism
This new movie looks pretty interesting.

Posted on: 08.25.2006

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U.N.: Cluster bombs litter south Lebanon
Apparantly there was an agreement that Israel wouldn't use US made bombs in their war of aggresion against Lebanon.

Posted on: 08.25.2006

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Republican lawmaker to offer timetable for Iraq withdrawal
But I thought Bush said that as long as he was President, we'd be in Iraq?

Posted on: 08.25.2006

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Lieberman still a Democrat -- on paper
Someone's a sore loser. And Lieberman hasn't been a Democrat in quite a while.

Posted on: 08.25.2006

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