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Justice Dept called uncooperative on voting rights Posted: 1 month ago by unoriganl
The House Judiciary Committee chairman on Wednesday said the Justice Department is stonewalling efforts to make sure this year's presidential voting operates fairly.
If you would like to call/email and ask the DoJ wth please go here
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McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price Posted: 1 month ago by shep182
Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign.
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Bush caught on Candid Camera... Posted: 1 month ago by bevissimo
After telling the press to turn off the cameras, Bush spoke candidly.
Naturally, all cameras were not off.
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McCain Hoping VP Guessing Game Will Take Steam Off Of Obama's Overseas Visit Posted: 1 month ago by BernardBlack
It looks like McCain's camp "leaked" the fact that a choice for VP could be made within a week. A leak that was hoped to take some of the publicity Obama is getting.
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NYT Tells Its Staff Bumper Stickers Are Forbidden. Posted: 1 month ago by 2manyusernames
As are donating, campaigning, demonstrate, wear buttons, place signs in their yard. They also can not express political preference or affiliation in any website or instant messages.
The Times did generously give its employees the permission to vote however
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NYT Rejects McCains Editorial; Should 'Mirror' Obama Posted: 1 month ago by ImNotBlue
An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES -- less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama...
This broke yesterday, and will be part of this week's "big story."
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NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Blasts Obama for ‘Fake Interviews’ Posted: 1 month ago by vexingmodstwo
Uh oh... maybe the love affair is going to be over?
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The Media is in love with Barack Obama Posted: 1 month ago by siennablue
John McCain's strategists have unveiled a new weapon against what they view as fawning coverage of his Democratic rival: mockery.
Washington Post Article
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Nations recycling wealth controlled by a disproportionate few Posted: 1 month ago by tigertony
New government report shows that 66 percent of the nation's recyclable assets are now held by the poorest 1 percent of the population. The gap is magnified by a tendency to reinvest can profits in additional redeemables, such as beer.
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Ten Handy Tips on How Not To Offend People Posted: 2 months ago by jeffman
Follow these handy guidelines and you'll never again have to worry about offending some over-sensitive, woolly minded, sandal-wearing, lentil-casserole slurping do-gooder.
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Is Your Bank in danger of failing ?? Posted: 2 months ago by siennablue
The reason I'm posting this is to ask yet another question. Why would the FDIC official website create a "dropdown" list unless it was going to add more banks??
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Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web Posted: 2 months ago by bingo
If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help.
Robinson is now 106 — that's 35 years older than McCain — and she began using the Internet at 98, at the Barclay Friends home in West Chester, Pa., where she lives. "I started to learn because I wanted to e-mail my family," she says — in an e-mail message, naturally.
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Campaigning, One Comic at a Time Posted: 2 months ago by gammerus
By far one of the most unique ways to get your name out there in the political arena.
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"comfort capsules" to be installed on military planes Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Terrorism Funds May Let Brass Fly in Style. Production of the first capsule -- consisting of two sealed rooms that can fit into the fuselage of a large military aircraft -- has already begun.
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Update:'Bush' sewage plant proposal makes ballot. Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
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9/11 billboard draws flak from Florida Democrats, GOP Posted: 2 months ago by bingo
A Florida man is using billboards with an image of the burning World Trade Center to encourage votes for a Republican presidential candidate, drawing criticism for politicizing the 9/11 attacks.
Businessman Mike Meehan says he has put up three billboards such as this one around Orlando, Florida.
"Please Don't Vote for a Democrat" reads the type over the picture of the twin towers after hijacked airliners hit them on September, 11, 2001.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, NOT THE REPUBLICANS.
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Judge restores protection for N. Rockies wolves Posted: 2 months ago by BernardBlack
Wolf populations in the three states were removed from the endangered list in March following a decade-long restoration effort. Environmentalists successfully sued to overturn the decision.
update to: this and this
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The Fed Fiddled as Rome Burned Posted: 2 months ago by siennablue
The collection of ne'er do wells, clueless dolts, political hacks, and oh, let's just be blunt and call them what they are -- total Idiots -- expands into an ever larger circle.
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"Barack...he's talking down to black people...telling n—s how to behave." Posted: 2 months ago by ImNotBlue
When it came out that Jesse Jackson had said he wanted to "cut his [Obama's] nuts out," that was only part of the story. The rest was withheld... until today, when it was leaked to TVNewser.
Update to this story:
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Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak Posted: 2 months ago by shep182
President Bush has asserted executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Michael Mukasey from having to comply with a House panel subpoena for material on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
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New York Attorney General Fights Child Pornography on the Internet Posted: 2 months ago by johnrhodes
Andrew Cuomo is making big strides in the quest to rid the internet of child pornography, coming down especially hard on internet service providers who allow those materials to be accessed via their networks. Tells all ISP's to ban alt.* newsgroups.
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Ron Paul questions Bernanke Today 10:00 a.m. C-Span (live) Posted: 2 months ago by siennablue
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke continues with his semi-annual testimony before Congress Wednesday morning. Bernanke will face Dr. Paul and the Congressional Committee on Financial Services on Wednesday July 16 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Be sure to tune in on CNBC, Bloomberg, or CSPAN. To watch online, tune into CSPAN.org.
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New Yorker pushes buttons Posted: 2 months ago by unzercharlie
As a country slowly learns the meaning of satire, it learns that this is not racism or fear mongering, or doesn't, and whines about it.
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Bush Lifts Executive ban of Offshore Drilling Posted: 2 months ago by shep182
President Bush lifted an executive order banning offshore oil drilling on Monday and urged Congress to follow suit. "This means that the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil reserves is action from the U.S. Congress," Bush said.
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Covering the Death of Tony Snow Posted: 2 months ago by ImNotBlue
"Goebbels With Better Hair"
An L.A. Times editor approved hateful comments on Snow’s obituary. CNN’s iReport quickly filled with bile. However, the left-wing “alternate media” (so named for the universe they inhabit) produced the most searing and deliberately offensive coverage.
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