Tag: gop
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10/28 Newspurge: Red Right Hand
‘Building What?’ TV ad to air on election day in NYC // Glaxo to pay $750m over tainted & ineffective drugs // Archaeologist tired of unearthing unspeakable, ancient evils // Radio host, witch doctor try to curse Lebron James // Actor Randy Quaid fears he’s on a ‘death list’ of stars
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Obamessiah/Warwhores: Selective Service
In Oregon, Obama stumps for Kitzhaber for governor // Video: Obama requests emergency stay of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ // Soldier says ordered to delete fort hood videos // FBI was ‘alerted’ to mumbai plot
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Mission Accomplished: The Speech Obama Should Give About Iraq War
Fellow Americans, and Iraqis who are watching this speech, I have come here this evening not to declare a victory or to mourn a defeat on the battlefield, but to apologize from the bottom of my heart for a series of illegal actions and grossly incompetent policies pursued by the government of the United States…
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police state updates: fire, fusion, foia
20% of our genes are already patented by private companies* iris scanners create the most secure city in the world. welcome, big brother* the return of civil disobedience* obama signs border bill to increase surveillance* tea party groups converge on mexican border to back immigration law* rasmussen: nearly half say US will be nuked* fire-breathing…
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obama presidency resembles modern-day ‘ancien régime’
while obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in spain from telegraph: What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and…
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‘largest intel leak in history’: wikileaks drops ‘afghan war diaries’
from ap: Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted the documents on its website Sunday. The New York Times, London’s Guardian…
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Obama Admin Worse on Whistleblowers Than Previous Puppet Admin
The Obama administration is being accused of getting away with crackdowns on government whistleblowers that President George W. Bush would have been publicly admonished for.
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Voters Back Anti-DC, Anti-Establishment Candidates
With the electorate’s intense anger reverberating across the country, this is all but certain: It’s an anti-Washington, anti-establishment year. And candidates with ties to either better beware.
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poll: 4 out of 5 americans don’t trust washington
poll: 1/3 of americans say their own government a threat* from ap: America’s “Great Compromiser” Henry Clay called government “the great trust,” but most Americans today have little faith in Washington’s ability to deal with the nation’s problems. Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to…
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decider-in-chief bypasses congress, then visits his afghanisurge
obama bypasses senate process, filling 15 posts from nytimes: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and install 15 appointees, including a union lawyer whose nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was blocked last…
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Landmark Legislation: Both Parties Collude to Bring US Health Scare
Amid the hype, all I have to add is that if they wanted us to get health care, they could deliver it with the same shock & awe quickness that they deliver death & destruction around the world – at a fraction of the cost! – just like Bill Hicks said…
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Congress Using Immigration to Push National Biometric ID Card
Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Lindsey Graham have joined forces in an effort to force a biometric ID on the American people. The new national ID scheme is part of a comprehensive immigration bill now in the Senate.
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Kucinich Forces House to Vote On Pullout From Afghanistan
In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy, lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war.
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Change: Obama Signs One-Year Extension of Patriot Act
President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama’s signature Saturday.
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9/11 updates: gop, dems, the media & the peace movement
debra medina’s 9/11 remark pushes campaign off track* letter to rachel maddow on debra medina* media response to the growing influence of 9/11 truth* peace movement vs 9/11 truth* gop rep chaffetz agrees with concerns of 9/11 truthers: there’s still a lot to learn* yet another congressman questions 9/11* 1992 flashback: small knives used in…