Cathy Maples Wins Dinner With Palin For $63,500

Alabama resident Cathy Maples had the winning bid in eBay's auction for a dinner with Sarah and Todd Palin. Maples, 53, owns a defense contracting company and is a big fan of Palin. She has met the ex-Governor at least twice before - once in North Carolina during a...

Bush Sent Rove a Letter Saying He Doesn't Have to Testify

**Hilight tool not working** By Jason Leopold    Monday, 26 January 2009 15:03 George W. Bush is seeking to extend his sweeping concept of executive privilege into his post-presidency,...

Rove says he won't comply with congressional subpoenas

**Highlight tool not working** Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove "won't comply" with congressional subpoenas, according to a newspaper report of an event held in Los Angeles earlier this week. Rove spoke Tuesday evening at Loyola Marymount University, a...

Bush Aide Karl Rove Claiming Retroactive Executive Privilege?

It is being reported that Karl Rove, former White House aide during the Bush administration, was instructed to ignore a subpeona to appear before Congress and refuse to cooperate in the House...

Line Up series by Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese

These photoworks from a 2004-5 series entitled 'Line-Up' by US conceptual artists, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, art and text collaborators since the early 80s, are raising both awareness and eyebrows at the...

Bush's Book List Voluminous Yet Narrowly Focused

Perhaps even more shocking than the alleged Amy Fisher Sex Tape, George W. Bush is apparently a reader. My thoughts immediately jumped to Bush's numerous, and excruciatingly public, displays of vocabulary-related...

President Bush versus Karl Rove: The Battle of the Readers

Turns out that President George W. Bush is a book lover.  According to the President's former advisor and campaign guru Karl Rove, he and Bush have had a yearly competition to see who would read the most...

A permanent Republican majority: RIP

Recent memory holds the idea of the "permanent Republican majority." It had the Republicans crowing and the Democrats quaking. Ron Brownstein gives us an idea of how far through political space we have traveled since then: "The consistent thread linking the 2006 and 2008...

Federal Judge Compels Testimony from Bush/McCain Computer Expert Monday

Karl Rove Warned That Vote Manipulation This Election Will "Turn the key on a jail house door." OhioNewsBureau with John Michael SpinelliColumbus, Ohio: With only a couple more days until the nation votes, the news from yesterday's federal court hearing in Cleveland that...

Ohio Cyber Security Expert Says 2004 KingPin Attack Benefited Bush

Expedited Hearing for Bush IT Expert Sought to Learn if Buckeye Vote "Tuned" for McCain  OhioNewsBureau with John Michael SpinelliColumbus, Ohio: A Key witness for a lawsuit alleging the presidential vote in Ohio was stolen in 2004 filed a declaration Wednesday...

Karl Rove’s Deceptive McCain Debate Strategy Backfires + Palin NOT Qualifie...

John Sidney McCain III If there ever was a topic McCain was suppose to command in the Presidential debates was Foreign Policy and McCain could not close the deal in the first debate with Barack Obama . This was McCain’s best shot at scoring significant points with...

Bush, McCain Computer Expert May Avoid Testifying on Cyber Rigging of 2004 El...

Time Nye on Whether Security of 2008 Election is Faulty, Meeting Notes Touch on Security of White House Email OhioNewsBureau by John Michael Spinelli and luaptifer Columbus, Ohio:  With 36 days left before Election Day 2008, attorneys representing Mike Connell,...

Will the vote be hacked?

It is unclear to me at the outset as to whether this is a credible charge but I wouldn't rule it out.  "Last week, VR interviewed GOP Cyber security expert Stephen Spoonamore about the upcoming election and...

Can Obama Win and Loose Ohio at the Same Time?

Experts' Affidavits Filed on Ohio 2004 Lawsuit Say Republican Cyber Operatives Could Heist 2008 Election in Replay of 2004 SurpriseOhioNewsBureauby John Michael SpinelliCOLUMBUS, OHIO: Ohio attorneys pushing to convince a federal judge to lift the stay on a case alleging...

Will Bush Create International Security Incident to Help Republicans, McCain ...

Russia’s Putin Says Skirmish in Georgia Devised by Bush to Benefit McCain OhioNewsBureau Op-Ed-iTude  By John Michael Spinelli COLUMBUS, OHIO: Is the story run by the BBC Thursday about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speculation that the shooting conflict...

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