The worst menace to American kids. It’s not Mark Foley.

According to this salon.com post by Bill Maher, the worst menace isn't Mark Foley.  Not by a long shot.  Focus, instead on legions of corporate and government predators.  Though this was written in October 2006, I didn't notice it until today.  As always, Maher doesn't pull any punches: [Foley] was…

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Rumsfeld again claims link between 9/11 and Iraq invasion during his farewell tour

It makes me wonder whether anyone is buything this line of bull anymore.  I wonder how the families of the soldiers killed in Iraq are reacting to this lie these days.  Maybe it gives some of them solace, because the alternative would be so incredibly crushing. My thoughts?  Good-bye.  Good riddance. 

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Who is to blame for Iraq, Bush’s poor execution or neoconservativism?

Vanity Fair has published an extraordinary article including interviews with many architects of America's foreign policy.  What do they think now that Iraq has been such a miserable failure? Varying degrees of regret can be detected in the people interviewed, but little remose, except from Kenneth Adelman: Fearing that worse…

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Republican Senator from Oregon: Iraq War “May Be Criminal”

The following words were delivered last night by Sen. Gordon Smith (a Republican from Oregon), a 10-year veteran of the Senate: I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way,…

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Mary Cheney Pregnant

According to the AP Conservative leaders voiced dismay Wednesday at news that Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Dick Cheney, is pregnant, while a gay-rights group said the vice president faces "a lifetime of sleepless nights" for serving in an administration that has opposed recognition of same-sex couples. How bad is…

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