Tag: politics
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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September 07, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
The last hurdle has been hurdled. Our passsports now have valid visas for the Islamic Republic of Iran in them. All I need to do now is buy the airline tickets, pack and wait. I am actually going to see . . .
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September 10, 2006 12:17 PM EDT --
The more I learn about this ABC fakumentary, like the fact that director is a Christianist and that it's got a few scenes of Clinton hate porn, I'm just weirded out by the whole thing. I mean . . .
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October 04, 2006 01:22 AM EDT --
Just look at the photo attached to this post and see for yourself. Mark Foley is a Republican (R-FL), not a Democrat (D-FL) although Fox News and the Republican Party wish that he were.
This really is . . .
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August 03, 2006 12:54 AM EDT --
If ever there were a ready made political campaign issue guaranteed to help the Democrats win in November and perhaps even put them over the top wouldn't this be it? It's the political equivalent . . .
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August 30, 2006 11:43 PM EDT --
What Keith Olbermann did tonight took true courage. Not the faux, pseudo-decisive "stick-to-my-guns" variety of our failing President, but the very real courage of someone who took a chance, . . .
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September 07, 2006 12:21 AM EDT --
America's political armageddon has arrived. Bush has laid it all out, as Josh says, right here:
We know the president's final strategy to keep the subpoenas at bay in 2007 and 2008. Put the . . .
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October 04, 2006 04:48 PM EDT --
The Associated Press is reporting:
A senior congressional aide said Wednesday he told House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office in 2004 about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage . . .
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October 10, 2006 11:41 PM EDT --
I really, really hope this number is incorrect. 600,000 souls. Six-hundred thousand lives snuffed out. And why? Ignorance? Pride? Hubris? I'm speechless.
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December 17, 2006 02:08 PM EST --
From the J-Post, on what I consider to be good news:
Rafsanjani, one of Ahmadinejad's main opponents, gained almost two times more votes than the presidential candidate Mohamad-Taqi Mesbah- Yazdi, . . .
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June 27, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
I'll be back to blogging later today. I'm going to try and wrap up the last 100 or so pages of Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine."
In the interim, from page 65, here's . . .
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September 21, 2006 12:29 AM EDT --
I don't even know where to start with this story. But I'll give it a shot: basically loans sharks, legal ones, have set up shop outside of military bases around the country preying on families . . .
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October 05, 2006 04:37 PM EDT --
Fox News reports Republicans will lose bigtime if Hastert stays. Predicting big losses in the event of Hastert's staying on as Speaker of the House Fox News reports:
House Republican candidates . . .
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October 05, 2006 09:52 PM EDT --
ABC is now reporting that three more pages have comes forward, seriously debunking Matt Drudge's earlier claims. ABC writes:
The pages served in the classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002. They independently . . .
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October 08, 2006 11:31 PM EDT --
The AP is reporting:
North Korea said Monday it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. The country's official Korean Central News Agency said the test was performed successfully and there . . .
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December 21, 2006 12:45 AM EST --
Bill Arkin makes an obvious if rarely mentioned point today:
America needs a larger non-military. Whether it's Iraq, drugs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Africa, hurricane Katrina, or the increase in . . .
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August 30, 2006 08:13 PM EDT --
Confused about Iran? Read these two (here and here) excellent (but short) posts by Matthew Yglesias. I've yet to see anything remotely resembling such sanity from anyone in the punditocracy. And thanks . . .
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August 30, 2006 12:22 AM EDT --
In the run-up to Bush's Iraq war many critics said that Iraq would turn into the mother of all recruiting tools and quite possibly a training ground for new terrorists. No one listened.
Then, when . . .
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September 21, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
Yes, we have free speech in America. Our First Amendment is still fit and trim, although it's had a few punches thrown at it lately. That's one of the great things about America: we are free to . . .
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December 03, 2006 12:56 AM EST --
Senior intelligence officer at CENTCOM Brig Gen. John Custer (yeah, I know, not the most auspicious surname in the world) had some very interesting things to say about those dastardly, evil, vile Iranians . . .
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April 11, 2006 08:16 PM EDT --
Spent a lot of my day thinking about Iran. Spent a lot of my day reading about Iran. Here's where I am: first off, the trip. Because of personal commitments I made earlier this year, if I don't . . .
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