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Return to Scalias invocation of 9/11in the opening of an opinion which he knows was eager ly awaited and will be reviewed by many with great care and attention. W e have all witnessed many opportunistic and nakedly political purposes f or which the profound tragedy of 9/11 has been appropriated.
jpg The Daily Show and The Last Throes Yes you knew it would happen. A little word game between John Stewart and the administration over the "last throes" of the insurgency.
Video- QT Classic Colbert: Dubya at his 5/1/03 aircraft carrier speech has simply b een misinterpreted. Rather than reading "mission accomplished", it shoul d have been read as an anagram: "C'mon, I lied.
MR RUSSERT: The Times of London reports this morning that there have bee n two meetings between Iraqi and US officials and some members of the insurgency. I think there have probably been ma ny more than that...... They're not going to try to bring in the people with blood on their hands, for sure, but they certainly are reaching out continuously, and we help to facilitate those from time to time.
Rumsfeld chastised the news media for the attention given to the subject. "I must say, I've been impressed how overblown these meetings are, these, quote-unquote, meetings. I don 't know anything about specific meetings on specific days, nor does Gene ral Casey," Rumsfeld said....
John Scarlett, chairman of th e Joint Intelligence Committee; Dearlove, who had just returned from Washington, said mi litary action was now seen as inevitable . the intelligence and fact s were being fixed around the policy. There was little discussion in Was hington of the aftermath after military action.
attacked three GOP Senators over at the College Chickenhawk s conference: Speaking to the same group a few hours later, party strate gist Grover Norquist lambasted three Republicans who broke party ranks o ver the issue of judicial filibusters. He referred to them as "the two g irls from Maine and the nut-job from Arizona" - Sens. Way to go Grover, he must have read our Special Ops manual. I have some more Special Ops planned after my encounter with the YRNC tha t helped to kick off the whole project.
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Sean Hannity is appalled that Klein chose su ch intimate and unsubstantiated personal attacks against her that even t he man with more morals than Jesus was not buying it. Yet, as he tries t o scold Klein about the book he made sure that ever sordid detail which he found so offensive got out into the public discourse. A back handed w ay to promote your propaganda and deny it at the same time.
But a truer test of the right's recent Hillaryphilia is on the way. National Review reports that Dick Morris has another Hillar y takedown coming soon. If conservatives have, with their response to Kl ein's book, accidentally created sympathy for New York's junior senator among swing voters, then another Clinton-bashing publishing phenomenon w ill send only one message to those people: Hillary '08."
Dick Morris is also w riting scathing attacks on Mr Klein which is probably motivated by his unease at the diluding of the Clinton marketplace he makes a living off of.
jpg Billy Graham and The Clintons Watching the clip on This Week, I forgot that Billy Graham is a Democrat. The right wing fake preachers have tried so hard to steal religion as t heir own and the media has givien them the license to do it. emailer Fra nk says: I can't believe Cal Thomas, Doctor Laura and James Dobson aren 't calling for Graham's scalp.
Splitting 5-4 in the first of two rulings on government displays of t he Ten Commandments, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal court order against a display of the religious document on the wall of a court house in Kentucky.
I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes," said Governmen t Reform Chairman Tom Davis , the Northern Virginia lawmaker who rece ntly convened high-profile steroid hearings. "I don't think they want to get involved in a political fight." Davis, whose panel also oversees D istrict of Columbia issues, said that if a Soros sale went through, "I d on't think it's the Nats that get hurt.
I watch ed a great baseball game last night between the Yanks and Mets. There's no politics involved when Randy Johnson takes the mound and Mike Piazza steps up to the plate.
writes that "When t he culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of acade mic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm." While Rove doesn't speak for him, I guess James Dobson does. The stupidit y of statements like this goes beyond the pale. I'm waiting for Bill O'R eilly to start a "Boycott Boston" campaign.
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