I'm a Democrat, and it's very likely I will vote for a Democrat in the 2008 Presidential election. However, if Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John Edwards was ever found to have done to their dog what Mitt Romney did, even if it was 25 years ago, I'd not only never vote...
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Following last week's Republican Presidential debate in California, I posted results of MSNBC's online polling, which, while not scientific, allowed just one vote per IP address and had thousands of respondents. The polling showed a clear winner of the debate--Texas...
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"White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino's husband was arrested last month for failing to pay a ticket he received for walking his dog without a leash, according to a report in today's Washington Examiner."I sense a pattern here. White House staff and their...
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This is no joke. Libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul from Texas outperformed the nine other candidates at last night's Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley,...
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Barack Obama is showing signs of getting a little too full of himself. An enthusiastic supporter long ago set up a MySpace page with Barack Obama's name, using it to promote Obama. The Obama camp was...
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"A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls “a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.”""I...
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"I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight district of San Diego
that military action will not last more than a week. Are you willing to
take that wager?"
(Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 1/29/03)
"It...
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"When reporters asked if the joke was insensitive, McCain said: “Insensitive to what? The Iranians?”"Yeah, this is the kind of leadership American needs more of, where we whitewash a whole nation of people as...
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According to the Iraq Body Count Database, there have been 8 attacks in 2007 on university targets alone in Iraq, resulting in a reported minimum of 135 civilian deaths--you know, women, children, etc. Yeah, I know, the Virginia Tech massacre hits close to home. Imagine...
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Campaigning in Montgomery, Alabama, after showing just how out-of-touch he is by failing miserably to come close to knowing the prices of a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread, Rudy Giuliani tried to show how in-touch he is with voters in the Deep South."Asked about the flying...
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"KABUL, Afghanistan - A U.S. Marine unit broke international humanitarian law by using excessive force during a shooting spree last month that left 12 people dead, an Afghan human rights group said in a report Saturday. The troops fired indiscriminately at pedestrians,...
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Sorry, America, but we build crappy, uninspiring cars. Toyota builds many of the cars it sells here within the United States, so let's give them some props as an American automaker, even though President Bush excluded them from his recent summit with "the big three". They're...
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I am naive. I honestly didn't even know what "nappy-headed" meant until the Imus comments. I've never used the term, but I wouldn't have known it was racist. So my initial reaction to the Imus firestorm was that...
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I'm not an expert in the workings of Congress, but I'm going to make a non-partisan inference from Yahoo's neat little "voting record" tool. Yahoo offers up a hyperlink to a politician's voting record in any news...
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Truemors
Ron Paul: Total Victory, Yet Censorship Continues